Preface
Introduction: on art and artists
1. Strange beginnings: prehistoric and primitive peoples; ancient America
2. Srt for eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
3. The great awakening: Greece, Seventh to fifth century B.C.
4. The realm of beauty: Greece and the Greek world, fourth century B.C. to first century A.D.
5. World conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century A.D.
6. A parting of ways: Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century
7. Looking eastwards: Islam, China, second to thirteenth century
8. Western art in the melting pot: Europe, sixth to eleventh century
9. The Church militant: the twelfth century
10. The Church triumphant: the thirteenth century
11. Courtiers and burghers: the fourteenth century
12. The conquest of reality: the early fifteenth century
13. Tradition and innovation: the later fifteenth century in Italy
14. Tradition and innovation: the fifteenth century in the North
15. Harmony attained: Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century
16. Light and cooler: Venice and northern Italy in the early sixteenth century
17. The new learning spreads: Germany and the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century
18. A crisis of art: Europe, later sixteenth century
19. Vision and visions: Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century
20. The mirror of nature: Holland in the seventeenth century
21. Power and glory: Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
22. Power and glory: France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
23. The age of reason: England and France, eighteenth century
24. The break in traditionL England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
25. Permanent revolution: the nineteenth century
26. In search of new standards: the late nineteenth century
27. Experimental art: the first half of the twentieth century
The changing scene: a postscript
Chronological charts
A note on art books
Index and glossary
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