Art in World History 2 Vols

VOLUME 1 FROM THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Early Civilizations 1. THE ORIGINS OF ART Early Artifacts 2. KINGDOMS OF MESOPOTAMIA Land Between the Rivers 3. ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN The Nile Valley, Crete, and Mycenae 4. CIVILIZATION AND EMPIRE IN CHINA Early Chinese Art. Greece and Rome 5. CLASSICAL GREECE Art in the Greek City-States 6. THE HELLENISTIC AGE Art in the Empire of Alexander the Great 7. THE RISE OF ROME From Etruscan Civilization to Republican Rome 8. THE IMPERIAL IDEAL Art in the Roman Empire. Religions and Conquests. Between East and West 9. CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE Late Imperial and Byzantine Art 10. THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE Northern Europe, 650-1000 11. THE RISE OF ISLAM Art in the Muslim Empire 12. AFRICAN ART Traditions and Old Kingdoms 13. BUDDHISM, JAINISM, AND HINDUISM The Development of Indian Art 14. BUDDHISM, TAOISM, AND CONFUCIANISM Art in China, 600-1368. The Middle Ages: Tune of Faith 15. MONASTERIES AND PILGRIMS Romanesque Art in France and Spain 16. CONQUERORS AND CRUSADERS The Influence of the Normans 17. THE GOTHIC CATHEDRALS 18. THE REVIVAL OF THE PAPACY Art in Medieval Italy. The Middle Ages: New Horizons 19. MEDIEVAL REFORM MOVEMENTS Franciscan and Dominican Art 20. ROYAL AND PAPAL COURTS Gothic as a Decorative Style 21. THE RISE OF CIVIC POWER Art in the Italian City-States 22. PERCEPTION AND REALITY Italian Art in the Fourteenth Century The Fifteenth Century 23. GUILDS AND MERCHANTS IN FLORENCE The Early Renaissance 24. THE HUMANIST IMAGE IN FLORENCE The Revival of Antiquity 25. ANTIQUITY AT THE ITALIAN COURTS Classical Images of Prestige 26. THE RETURN OF THE PAPACY Art in Fifteenth-Century Rome 21. PRINCES AND MERCHANTS Northern Europe, 1400-1500. The Sixteenth Century 28. JULIUS II AND THE HIGH RENAISSANCE Rome, 1503-1513 29. VENICE: THE IMAGE OF THE STATE Venetian Art, 1450-1600 INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES. VOLUME TWO: FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY30. REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION Religious lmages, 1500-1600 31. POWER AND IMAGE European Courts, 1500-1600 32. TURKS, MONGOLS, AND ISLAM Art at the Muslin Courts The Seventeenth Century 33. THE TRIUMPH OF CATHOLICISM Rome and Baroque Art 34. IMAGE AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT France and England, 1600-1700 35. AMERICA BEFORE THE CONQUEST Pre-Columbian Art 36. SPAIN AND THE CATHOLIC EMPIRE Art in the Spanish Dominions 37. THE DUTCH REPUBLIC The Golden Age of Dutch Art 38. STYLES, SUBJECTS, AND PATRONS New Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Art. The Eighteenth Century 39. EXTRAVAGANCE AND FRIVOLITY The Development of Rococo Art 40. NEW EMPIRES IN THE FAR EAST China and Japan 41. THE LURE OF ANTIQUITY Early Neoclassicism 42. THE RULE OF TASTE British Art in the Eighteenth Century 43. FROM FASHION TO REVOLUTION Neoclassicism, 1750-1800 44. ART. POLITICS, AND SOCIETY Middle-Class Art, 1700-1800 The Nineteenth Century 45. THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE From Neoclassicism to Romanticism 46. PAX BRITANNICA British Art in the Nineteenth Century 47. NEW HEROES FOR A NEW ERA Realism, 1840-1880 48. ARTISTIC FREEDOM Impressionism and Post-Impressionism49. THE CHALLENGE OF NEW MATERIALS Architecture and the Industrial Revolution. The Twentieth Century 50. INNOVATION AND ABSTRACTION Art for a New Century 51. THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR Art Between the Wars 52. MODERNISM REVISITED Art and Architecture from 1945 to the Present Day.