For the first time, the book traces the history of art in Bohemia and Moravia in one volume. It captures the development and transformations of artistic creation in the Czech lands from Great Moravia to the present day. It deals with painting, sculpture, architecture, book painting, artistic craft, photography and other types of artistic creation, placing eight hundred selected works in the historical context of their creation.

The core of the book consists of the so-called "families", groups of two, three or four works of art, which unite the personality of the royal or noble client, the creation of the work in the environment of old monasteries, on the grounds of modern academies or against the background of contemporary religious and political currents, belonging to a specific artistic direction, various renderings of one theme and other interesting connections. In the "families", the readers will be introduced to the most important artistic performances connected with the Czech territory and the most outstanding artistic personalities, from the master Theodorik and Petr Parléra to the creators of the Cubist and interwar avant-garde to Krištof Kintera, Federico Díaz and other contemporary artists.

The book rarely combines the erudition of more than 30 authors, experts on individual periods from the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and cultivated and understandable language. It is thus available to anyone deeply interested in visual arts and becomes a basic guide not only for experts, students of humanities, but also for the general public for decades to come.