Monet has paved the way to the painting en plein air, marking the most important pages of the history of Impresionism during decades. He will carry this to its logical conclusion in his paintings of the nymphs´s ponds, till he almost reaches abstraction. Maybe no one else, in the history of humanity, represented, as Leonardo did, the real “genius”. In the heart of Renaissance, Leonardo explores, on his own, many different fields of art and science. Piero della Francesca represents the spirit of humanism. Mind, liberated from medieval links, becomes the centre of a universe built “to suit Man". Space, light and colour, architecture and nature: Piero rules the image masterly. Since he completed his academic formation throughout the Spanish provinces at the end of the 19th century until he died, going through the period of the Parisian avant-gardes and the explosion of Cubism, Picasso dominates the20th century art. His works are a symbol of the contemporary art and culture. . He began as a copyist in the Louvre and then became the king of fauvism. Tireless and patient, Henri Mattise knew how to merge the lessons of former teachers and the new suggestions of the African primitive art in his painting. From the Blaue Reiter, Kandisky is one of the most important forerunners of abstract art. His paintings and ideas are the most determining experiences for the evolution of contemporary painting. The human parable of Rembrandt marks the highest and most tragic page of the Dutch “golden century”. Famous painter, then hastened to an unstoppable downfall, Rembrandt left great and memorable works, full of humanity and emotion. Without leaving the joy of light and colour, Cézanne does not end his work in the “impression” but also takes part in the nature´s form, remodelling it “with the cube, the cylinder and the sphere”. He recovers the solemn tone of classical art, becoming a model for the 20th century avant-gardes. In the calm artistic life of Paris at the end of the 19th century, the passionate painting of a Dutch young boy comes up. With brushstrokes full of colour and passion, Van Gogh transfers to the canvas the harsh tones and the emotions of a short but very intense life. Gauguin is one of the most fascinating painters at the end of the 19th century. He is one of the few painters that rejected the impresionist and gay Paris. Gauguin contrasts the sublime search for purity and beauty, for which he leaves everything behind and travels to Tahiti. Renoir offers some of the freshest and kindest images of art; great fun in a carefree Paris. Renoir is one of the promoters of Impresionism. His painting is always in movement, and gives us the gleaming ray of joy as a present. Spain´s XVII century is the century of Velázquez, painter of genius, interpreter of a society oppresed by the court and the harsh reality. His art is the internal image of some men and women full of passions, whose intense and direct presence makes them closer to us and eternally present. He was a painter, an architect, a writer, but Michelangelo considered himself a sculptor. To sculpt the marble block with the chisel, to slowly make the “concept” emerge, the idea that was imprisoned inside the matter, to express himself “so as to raise”: the genius’ energy is concentrated in this lonely and tense action; he placates the eagerness for the present time, he calls to the doors of immortality