Includes bibliographical references (pages 644-650) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. The Ancient World: Prehistoric art -- Ancient Near Eastern art -- Egyptian art -- Aegean art -- Greek art -- Etruscan art -- Roman art. pt. 2. The Middle Ages: Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine art -- Islamic art -- Early Medieval art -- Romanesque art -- Gothic art. pt. 3. The Renaissance through the Rococo: early modern Europe: Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy -- Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century northern Europe -- The Early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy -- The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495--1520 -- The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy -- Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe -- The Baroque in Italy and Spain -- The Baroque in the Netherlands -- The Baroque in France and England -- The Rococo. pt. 4. The modern world: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750--1789 -- Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789--1848 -- The age of Positivism : Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848--1885 -- Progress and its discontents : post-Impressionism, symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880--1905 -- Toward Abstraction : the Modernist revolution, 1905--1914 -- Art between the Wars -- Postwar to Postmodern, 1945--1980 -- The Postmodern era : art since 1980.
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