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Hieronymus Bosch, and the Surrealists. What kind of a roll call unites them through the centuries? Sitting in the Montparnasse cafes, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), who invented the term "Surrealism", looked through the haze of alcohol into the bustling Paris, surrounding him, and wrote: "Even the automobiles are antiques Religion alone remains entirely new religion Remains as…

Did you know that the most familiar artworks of the Renaissance The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, Mona Lisa or La Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci  and The Sistine Madonna by Raphael were not only painted in the same century, but in the same fifteen years of the XIV century, so we can say they were all created at the same time?

The Renaissance has become a major cultural milestone in the development of European civilization. Being the motherland of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, Italy spread its influence over almost all of Europe at the late 15th — early 16th century. Almost a century later, the Northern Renaissance was born, which combined humanist triumph and Hyperborean rigor.