Each artist has his own system of ideas, views, principles, and he has an intention of expressing these thoughts in his masterpieces. The painters can present their ideas by meaning and symbols of pictures, by specific artistic methods, by concealed sense of painting. The spectator understands the masterpiece in a way he wants, but we must admit, that the painter introduced his ideas in picture with intention of showing them to public and persuading the public in rightness of his ideas[i]. That’s why the specialists – artistic critics – must analyse all the elements of picture for understanding its genuine sense, meaning. Among the proper artistic methods we must also take into account the biography of painter, the social conditions of his life, the political and economical system of his time, the dominating religion (it especially concerns the works of IX – XVI centuries, when the religious authority dominated in Europe).

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