On verso "With a section on Eastern art by Philip Rawson."

Originally published in Great Britain in 1981 by Mitchell Beazley Publishers.

Includes index.

ANCIENT WORLDS -- Foreword -- Map: Ancient Worlds -- Palaeolithic Art -- African Art I: Prehistoric and Historic -- African Art 2: Tribal -- Pre-Columbian Art -- A Tlingit House-Post -- Oceanic Art -- Egyptian Art I: The Old Kingdom -- Egyptian Art 2: The New Kingdom -- Western Asian Art -- The Lion Hunt Reliefs from Nineveh -- Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Art -- Archaic Greek and Etruscan Art -- The Artemisium Zeus/Poseidon -- Classical Greek Art -- Fourth-Century Greek Art -- Hellenistic Art -- The Lost Riches of Classical Painting -- Roman Art 1 -- Trajan's Column, Rome -- Roman Art 2: The Hadrianic Period -- Late Antique and Early Christian Art -- MEDIEVAL AND EARLY RENAISSANCE ART -- Foreword -- Map: Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean AD 330-1500 -- Byzantine Art I: Justinian -- Byzantine Art 2: Revival and Diffusion -- The Virgin of Vladimir -- Christ in Chora, Constantinople -- Celtic or Insular Art -- Carolingian and Ottonian Art -- Romanesque Sculpture -- Gislebertus: The Sculpture at Autun -- Romanesque Painting -- Gothic Art in Northern Europe -- The Genesis of Italian Painting -- Italian Gothic Sculpture -- Giotto di Bondone -- Italian Gothic Painting -- Lorenzetti: The Good Commune -- The International Gothic Style -- Netherlandish Art I: Sluter and the van Eycks -- Jan van Eyck: The Arnolfini Marriage -- Netherlandish Art 2: Rogier van der Weyden -- Netherlandish Art 3, and its Diffusion -- Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Italian Renaissance Sculpture 1 -- Donatello -- Masaccio: The Holy Trinity -- Italian Renaissance Painting 1 -- Fra Angelico: The San Marco Annunciation -- Italian Painting 2: Tuscany in mid-Century -- Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation -- Italian Sculpture 2: New Modes and Types -- Italian Painting 3: Florence and Rome -- Botticelli: Primavera -- Renaissance Painting in North and Central Italy -- Renaissance Painting in Venice -- THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY –Foreword -- Map: Europe in the 16th Century -- The High Renaissance 1: Florence and Rome -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel -- Raphael -- Giovanni Bellini: The S. Zaccaria Altarpiece -- Giorgione: The Tempest -- Titian -- Titian: The Rape of Europa -- The High Renaissance 2: Venice -- The High Renaissance 3: North Italy -- Dürer and Grünewald -- Dürer: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Painting in Germany before the Reformation -- Holbein: The Ambassadors -- Sculpture in Germany: Late Gothic and Italianate -- Netherlandish and French Painting -- Bruegel: August, or The Corn Harvest -- Mannerist Painting in Italy I -- Mannerism 2: The Medici and the French Kings -- Mannerist Sculpture in Italy -- Painting in Venice: Tintoretto and Veronese -- Tintoretto: The Scuola di San Rocco Crucifixion -- Art in Spain: El Greco -- THE BAROQUE ERA --Foreword -- Map: Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Michaelangelo da Caravaggio -- Caravaggio: The Conversion of St Paul -- The Carracci and their Pupils -- Annibale Carracci: The Farnese Gallery -- The High Baroque in Rome -- Bernini: The Cornaro Chapel -- French Art I -- Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps -- Landscape Painting in Italy -- French Art 2: The Sun King -- Art in Flanders -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Rubens: The Descent from the Cross -- Art in England -- Art in Spain -- Velazquez: Las Meninas -- Art in the Dutch Republic -- Hals: A Banquet of the St George Civic Guard -- Rembrandt van Rijn -- Rembrandt: The Self-Portrait at Kenwood -- Dutch Landscape I -- Dutch Landscape 2: "Classic" -- Ruisdael: The Jewish Cemetery -- Dutch Genre and Portraiture I -- Dutch Genre and Portraiture 2: Delft and Deventer – Vermeer: The Artist's Studio -- Dutch Still-Life Painting -- Late Baroque in Italy -- Tiepolo: The Residenz at Würzburg -- Watteau: The Embarkation for Cythera -- French and German Rococo -- French Rococo 2: Portraiture and Sculpture -- Genre and Still-Life Painting -- Chardin: The House of Cards -- William Hogarth -- British Portraiture and Genre -- Gainsborough: Mary, Countess Howe -- Landscape: View-Painting and the Grand Tour -- EASTERN ART -- Foreword -- Map: The Eastern World -- Indian Art I Indian Art 2: From Gupta to Pala -- Indian Art 3: Hindu Art -- The Kandarya Mahadeva Temple -- Indian Art 4: Mughal and Rajput Painting -- Islamic Art 1: Calligraphy -- Islamic Art 2: Decorative Arts -- Islamic Art 3: Representational Arts -- South-East Asian Art 1: Indonesia -- South-East Asian Art 2: Java and Burma -- South-East Asian Art 3: Cambodia and Thailand -- Chinese Art 1: Relics of the Tombs -- Chinese Art 2: Buddhist Art -- Song (Sung) Porcelain -- Chinese Art 3: Landscape Painting -- Korean Art Japanese Art 1: Art of the Buddhist Temples -- Japanese Art 2: Zen Ink-Painting -- Japanese Art 3: Yamoto-e -- Japanese Art 4: Ukiyo-e.-- THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS -- Foreword -- Map: Europe and America 1789-1917 -- David: The Oath of the Horatii -- Neoclassical Painting: The Grand Style -- Neoclassical Sculpture -- Neoclassics and Romantics in England -- Francisco de Goya -- Goya: The Colossus -- Romantic Landscape in Britain and America -- Constable: The White Horse -- Turner: Dawn after the Wreck German and Scandinavian Romanticism -- Friedrich: Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon -- French Romanticism -- Delacroix: The Death of Sardanapalus -- Painting in Victorian Britain -- Ingres: La Grande Odalisque -- Academic Art in Europe -- French Realism -- Courbet: The Artist's Studio -- French Landscape: The Barbizon School -- Edouard Manet -- Whistler: Falling Rocket -- Impressionism I: The Early Years -- Claude Monet -- Impressionism 2: The Later Years -- Degas: The Little 14-Year-Old Dancer -- Sculpture in the Later 19th Century -- Rodin: The Gates of Hell -- Seurat: La Grand Jatte -- Post-Impressionism I -- Vicent van Gogh -- Paul Gauguin -- Cézanne: Mont Ste-Victoire –Post-Impressionism 2, and Art Nouveau -- Symbolism -- Paintings in America in the Later 19th Century -- Twentieth-Century Art: A New Constitution -- Edvard Munch -- Impressionists and Expressionists outside France -- Nolde: The Last Supper -- Expressionism 1: Die Brücke ¬-- Expressionism 2: Der Blaue Reiter -- Kandinsky: Study for Composition no. 7 -- Rousseau: The Merry Jesters -- Fauvism -- Matisse: Le Luxe II -- Brancusi: The Kiss -- Cubism 1: Picasso and Braque -- Cubism 2, and Orphism -- Futurism -- Art in Britain: The Vortex -- Russian Art 1: From Symbolism to Suprematism -- Russian Art 2: Constructivism -- Tatlin: Monument to the Third International.-- ART SINCE 1915 -- Foreword ¬-- Map: The World of the 20th Century -- Dada -- Marcel Duchamp -- Art in Italy: Metaphysical Painting -- Max Ernst -- Surrealism 1: Figurative -- Surrealism 2: Abstract -- Cubist Developments -- Sculpture between the Wars -- Modigliani: Chaim Soutine -- The School of Paris -- Art in Holland: De Stijl -- Mondrian: Composition in Yellow and Blue -- Art in Germany: The Bauhaus -- Paul Klee -- Expressionist Developments -- Beckmann: Departure -- Art in Britain -- Henry Moore -- Picasso between the Wars -- Early Modernist Art in America -- Hopper: Nighthawks -- The Mexican Muralists -- The Sources of Abstract Expressionism -- Jackson Pollock -- Abstract Expressionism -- De Kooning: Woman 1 -- Abstract Developments 1: Colour-Field -- Albers: Homage to the Square -- Abstract Developments 2: Hard-Edge and Minimal -- Informal Abstraction in Europe -- Wyeth: Christina's World -- After 1945: Old Masters of the New -- Post-War Sculpture I -- Giacometti: Man Pointing -- Bacon: Figures in a Landscape -- Johns and Rauschenberg -- American Pop Art -- British Pop Art -- Environmental Art, Happenings and Performance -- Kinetic and Op Art -- Post-War Sculpture 2: Minimal and Conceptual -- Land and Earth Art -- Traditional Easel-Painting -- Superrealism -- The Popularization of Art -- List of illustrations -- Index

Ancient art - Medieval and early Renaissance art - Art in the sixteenth century - Baroque - Eastern art - Art in the age of revolutions - Romanticism - Impressionism - Cubism - Impressionists - Art since 1915.