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From the earliest cave paintings to the contemporary art scene, this illustrated volume explains the art of the west in its context.

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• Chapter 1 Why Do We Study the History of Art?
• The Artistic Impulse The Values of Art
• Art and Illusion Architecture
• Archeology and Art History
• Methodlogies of Art History
• Chapter 2 The Language of Art Composition Plane Balance Line Depth Space
• Shape Light and Color Texture Stylistic Terminology
• Chapter 3 Prehistoric Western Europe
• The Stone Age Paleolithic Beyond the West: Rock
• Paintings of Australia Mesolithic Neolithic
• Chapter 4 The Ancient Near East Neolithic
• Era Mesopotamia Anatolia: The Hittites Iran
• Chapter 5 Ancient Egypt
• The Gift of the Nile
• The Pharaohs
• The Egyptian Concept of Kingship
• The Palette of Narmer
• The Old Kingdom
• The Middle Kingdom
• The New Kingdom Tutankhamon's Tomb
• Chapter 6 The Aegean Cycladic Civilization
• Discoveries at Thera Minoan Civilization
• Mycenaean Civilization
• Chapter 7 The Art of Ancient Greece Cultural
• Identity Government and Philosophy
• Literature and Drama "Man is the Measure of Things" Painting and Pottery Sculpture
• Classical Architecture: The Athenian Acropolis Late
• Classical Style Hellenistic Period
• Chapter 8 The Art of the Etruscans Architecture
• Pottery and Sculpture Women in Etruscan Art
• Funerary Art
• Chapter 9 Ancient Rome Architectural Types
• Sculptural Types
• Mural Painting
• Chapter 10 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
• A New Religion Constantine and Christianity Early Christian Art
• Justinian and the Byzantine Style
• The Codex Later Byzantine Developments
• Chapter 11 The Early Middle Ages Islamic Art
• Northern European Art
• Ottonian Period
• Chapter 12 Romanesque Art Economic and Political Development
• Pilgrimage Roads Architecture
• Manuscripts Mural Painting
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• Chapter 13 Gothic Art Origins of the Gothic
• Style in France Early Gothic
• Architecture: Saint-Denis Elements of Gothic
• Architecture Romanesque Precursors of Gothic
• The Age of Cathedrals Chartres Later Developments of the French Gothic
• Style English Gothic
• Chapter 14 Precursors of the Renaissance Thirteenth-Century
• Italy Fourteenth-Century Italy
• The International Gothic Style
• Chapter 15 The Early Renaissance Italy in the Fifteenth Century
• Early Fifteenth-Century
• Painting Early Fifteenth-Century
• Sculpture: Donatello's David Second-Generation
• Developments Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Netherlands
• Chapter 16 The High Renaissance in Italy Architecture
• Painting and Sculpture Developments in Venice
• Chapter 17 Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth-Century in Italy Mannerism
• Counter-Reformation Painting Architecture: Andrea Palladio
• Chapter 18 Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
• The Netherlands Germany
• Chapter 19 The Baroque Style in Western Europe
• Baroque Style Architecture Sculpture: Gianlorenzo Bernini Italian Baroque Painting
• Baroque Painting in Northern Europe Beyond the West: Mughal Art Spanish
• Baroque Painting: Diego Velázquez French
• Baroque Painting: Nicolas Poussin
• Chapter 20 Rococo and the Eighteenth Century Beyond the West: The Pagoda
• The Age of Enlightenment Rococo Painting
• Rococo Architecture
• Architectural Revivals Bourgeois Realism: Jean-Baptiste Chardin American Painting
• Chapter 21 Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• The Neoclassical Style in France Development in America
• Chapter 22 Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• Romantic Trends in Architecture Sculpture: François Rude Painting
• Chapter 23 Nineteenth-Century Realism French Realist
• Painting Photography American Realist
• Painting French