Warriors and spears, horsemen and horses: This painting about war is maybe the most well known one by Paolo Uccello and a wonderful work of art from the beginning of the Renaissance. All Uccello’s passion is focused on the use of the perspective in his painting. Brilliantly, he shows the warrior confrontation, made at the powerful Medici’s request for his palace in Florence.

Elke von Radziewsky narrates, throughout exciting chapters, the story of the creation of this huge painting and she introduces the artist and his work and time to us.

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The artist J. de Goya was an ambivalent genius: ambitious, outsider, a traditionalist but revolutionary person, he was driven by their visions; he was a realistic person, a courtier and a rebel at the same time.  In 1786, when he was designated to be the court painter, this “Snowfall” was made as a part of a cycle about the four seasons. Throughout exciting chapters, the painting, the artist and his time are introduced to us.