The history of art is full of examples when paintings were ravaged with fire and sword. They were cut into parts by the artists themselves, the sellers, the circumstances or the elements. But the surviving fragments (at times – very tiny ones and, of course, with new titles) continue to attract, excite and impress to this day – even more than many unscathed canvases, that weren't even touched by…

Tarkovsky did not quote works of art in his films. He made dialogues with musical, literary, philosophical, and, of course, beautiful works of philosophers. We focus on the works by Leonardo da Vinci, Andrei Rublev, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Durer and other masters, who are present in the films and reveal the meanings and ideas of the director's art.