Janson's history of art: the western tradition

Part one: The ancient world. 1. Prehistoric art. Paleolithic art

Neolithic art

2. Ancient Near Eastern Art. Sumerian art

Art of Akkad

Babylonian art

Assyrian art

Late Babylonian art

Regional Near Eastern art

Iranian art

3. Egyptian art. Predynastic and early dynastic art

The old kingdom: A golden age

The middle kingdom: Reasserting tradition through the arts

The new kingdom: Restored glory

Akhenaten and the amarna style

Papyrus scrolls: The book of the dead

Late Egypt

4. Aegean art. Early Cycladic art

Minoan art

Mycenaean art

5. Greek art. The emergence of Greek art: The geometric style

The orientalizing style: Horizons expand

Archaic art: Art of the city-state

Stone sculpture

The classical age

The late classical period

The age of Alexander and the Hellenistic period

6. Etruscan art. Funerary art

Architecture

Sculpture

7. Roman art. Early Rome and the republic

New direct6ions in architecture

The early empire

The late empire

Part two: The middle ages. 8. Early Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine art. Early Jewish art

Early Christian art

Byzantine art

9. Islamic art. The formation of Islamic art

The development of Islamic style

Islamic art and the Persian inheritance

The classical age

Later classical art and architecture

The three late empires

Continuity and change in Islamic art

10. Early medieval art. Anglo-Saxon art

Hiberno-Saxon art

Viking art

Carolingian art

Ottonian art

11. Romanesque art. First expressions of romanesque style

Mature romanesque

Other regional variants of romanesque

12. Gothic art. Early gothic art in France

High gothic art in France

Rayonnant or court style

Late gothic art in France

The spread of gothic art

Part three: The Renaissance through rococo. 13. Art in thirteenth- and fourtheenth-century Italy. The growth of the mendicant orders and the visual arts in Italy

Painting in Tuscany

Northern Italy

14. Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century Northern Europe. Courtly art: The international gothic

Urban centers and the new art

Late fifteenth-century art in the Netherlands

Regional responses to the early Netherlandish style

Printing and the graphic arts

15. The early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy. Florence in the fifteenth century

Domestic life: Palaces, furnishings, and paintings in medicean Florence

16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520. The high renaissance in Florence and Milan

Rome resurgent

Venice

17. The late renaissance and mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy. Late renaissance Florence: The church, the court, and mannerism

Rome reformed

Northern Italy: Ducal courts and urban centers

Parma and Cremona

Venice: The serene republic

18. Renaissance and reformation in sixteenth-century Northern Europe. France: Courtly tastes for Italian forms

Spain: Global power and religious orthodoxy

Central Europe: The reformation and art

England: Reformation and power

The Netherlands: World marketplace

19. The baroque in Italy and Spain. Painting in Italy

Architecture in Italy

Sculpture in Italy

Painting in Spain

20. The baroque in the Netherlands. Flanders

The Dutch republic

The market: Landscape, still-life, and genre painting

21. The baroque in France and England. France: The style of Louis XIV

Baroque architecture in England

22. The rococo. France: The rise of the rococo

The rococo in Western Europe outside France

The rococo in central Europe

Part four: The modern world. Art in the age of enlightenment, 1750-1789. Rome toward 1760: The font of neoclassicism

Romanticism in Rome: Piranesi neoclassicism in Britain

Early romanticism in Britain

Neoclassicism in France

Italian neoclassicism toward 1785

24. Art in the age of Romanticism, 1789-1848. Painting

Romantic sculpture

Romantic revivals in architecture

25. The age of positivism: Realism, impressionism, and the pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885. Realism in France

British realism

Realism in America

Photography: A mechanical medium for mass-produced art

Architecture and the industrial revolution

26. Progress and its discontents: Post-impressionism, symbolism, and art nouveau, 1880-1905. Post-impressionism

Symbolism

Art nouveau and the search for modern design

American architecture: The Chicago school

Photography and the advent of film

27. Toward abstraction: The modernist revolution, 1904-1914. Fauvism

Cubism

The impact of fauvism and cubism

Marcel Duchamp and the advent of an art of ideas

Constantin Brancusi and the birth of modernist sculpture

American art

Early modern architecture in Europe

28. Art between the wars. Dada

Surrealism

Organic sculpture of the 1930's

Creating utopias

Art in American: Modernity, spirituality, and regionalism

Mexican art: Seeking a national identity

The eve of world war II

29. Postwar to postmodern, 1945-1980. Existentialism in New York: Abstract expressionism

Existentialism in Europe: Figural expressionism

Rejecting abstract expressionism: American art of the 1950's and 1960's

Formalist abstraction of the 1950's and 1960's

The pluralist 1970's: Post-minimalism

Art with a social agenda

Late modernist architecture

30. The postmodern era: Art since 1980. Architecture

Postminimalism and pluralism: Limitless possibilities in fine art

Appropriation art: Deconstructing images

Multiculturalism and political art

Global art

Glossary

Books for further reading

Index

Credits

v. 1

The ancient world. Prehistoric art ; Ancient Near Eastern art ; Egyptian art ; Aegean art ; Greek art ; Etruscan art ; Roman art.

The Middle Ages. Early Christian and Byzantine art ; Islamic art ; Early Medieval art ; Romanesque art ; Gothic art ; Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy.

v. 2

The Renaissance through the Rococo. Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy ; Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century Northern Europe ; The early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy ; The high Renaissance in Italy ; The late Renaissance and Mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy ; Renaissance and Reformation in sixteenth-century Northern Europe ; The Baroque in Italy and Spain ; The Baroque in the Netherlands ; The Baroque in France and England ; The Rococo.

The modern world. Art in the age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789 ; Art in the age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 ; The age of positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 ; Progress and its discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905 ; Toward abstraction: the Modernist revolution, 1904-1914 ; Art between the wars ; Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 ; The Postmodern era: art since 1980.