Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-598) and index
Why do we study the history of art? -- The language of art -- Prehistoric Western Europe -- The ancient near East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Aegean -- The art of ancient Greece -- The art of the Etruscans -- Ancient Rome -- Early Christian and Byzantine art -- Romanesque art -- Gothic art -- Precursors of the Renaissance -- The early Renaissance -- The high Renaissance in Italy -- Mannerism and the later sixteenth century in Italy -- Sixteenth-century painting and printmaking in northern Europe -- The Baroque style in western Europe -- Rococo, the eighteenth century, and revival styles -- Neoclassicism: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Romanticism: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Nineteenth-century realism -- Nineteenth-century impressionism -- Post-impressionism and the late nineteenth century -- The early twentieth century: Picasso, Fauvism, expressionism, and Matisse -- Cubism, futurism, and related twentieth-century styles -- Dada, Surrealism, social realism, regionalism, and abstraction -- Mid-century American abstraction -- Pop art, op art, minimalism, and conceptualism -- Continuity, innovation, and globalization
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Why do we study the history of art? -- The language of art -- Prehistoric Western Europe -- The ancient near East -- Ancient Egypt -- The Aegean -- The art of ancient Greece -- The art of the Etruscans -- Ancient Rome -- Early Christian and Byzantine art -- Romanesque art -- Gothic art -- Precursors of the Renaissance -- The early Renaissance -- The high Renaissance in Italy -- Mannerism and the later sixteenth century in Italy -- Sixteenth-century painting and printmaking in northern Europe -- The Baroque style in western Europe -- Rococo, the eighteenth century, and revival styles -- Neoclassicism: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Romanticism: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Nineteenth-century realism -- Nineteenth-century impressionism -- Post-impressionism and the late nineteenth century -- The early twentieth century: Picasso, Fauvism, expressionism, and Matisse -- Cubism, futurism, and related twentieth-century styles -- Dada, Surrealism, social realism, regionalism, and abstraction -- Mid-century American abstraction -- Pop art, op art, minimalism, and conceptualism -- Continuity, innovation, and globalization