Krzysztof Izdebski-Cruz (Kriz Cruz) born in Toruń - Poland, is a contemporary artist with a painterly technique that is highly respectful of tradition. He paints in oil and pastel. The works that he creates have a direct link to the technical tradition of Renaissance painting. His subjects, meanwhile, are most often classical, allegorical, and sometimes also symbolic. His paintings are systematically in dialogue, then, with the works of his historical predecessors; often his part in these conversations is polemical, frequently including, as well, elements of irony; .http://www.izdebskiart.com/Kriz_new/o_artyscie_ang.html