The definitive survey of the Western Art tradition — the standard to which all other art history surveys are compared — this classic text uses an exceptional art program, impeccable scholarship, sumptuous color pictures, and an unmatched student-friendly pedagogy to introduce readers to the vast world of Western painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the minor arts.

Prefaces and acknowledgements -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Art and the artist -- Looking at art -- The ancient world -- Prehistoric art -- The old Stone Age -- The new Stone Age -- Egyptian art -- The old kingdom -- The middle kingdom -- The new kingdom -- Ancient near eastern art -- Sumerian art -- Assyrian Art -- Persian Art -- Aegean Art -- Cycladic Art -- Minoan Art -- Mycenaean Art -- Greek Art -- Geometric Style -- Orientalizing Style -- The Greek Gods and Goddesses -- Archaic Vase Painting -- The Hero in Greek Legend -- Archaic Sculpture -- Architecture -- Classical Sculpture -- Music in Ancient Greece -- Theater in Ancient Greece -- Classical Painting -- Fourth-Century Sculpture -- Hellenistic Sculpture -- Coins -- Etruscan Art -- Roman Art -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Theater and Music in Ancient Rome -- Timeline One -- The Middle Ages -- Early Christian and Byzantine Art -- Early Christian Art -- The Liturgy of the Mass -- Versions of the Bible -- The Life of Jesus -- Biblical, Church, and Celestial Beings -- Byzantine Art -- Early Medieval Art -- Carolingian Art -- Guilds: Masters and Apprentices -- Ottonian Art -- Romanesque Art -- Architecture -- Monasticism and Christian Monastic Orders -- Sculpture -- Painting and Metalwork -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Gothic Art -- Architecture -- Medieval Music and Theater -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Timeline Two -- The Renaissance Through the Rococo -- The Early Renaissance In Italy -- Florence: 1400-1450 -- Central and Northern Italy: 1450-1500 -- Early Italian Renaissance Theater and Music -- The High Renaissance in Italy -- Theater and Music During the High Renaissance -- Mannerism and Other Trends -- Painting -- Music and Theater in the Age of Mannerism -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- "Late Gothic" Painting, Sculpture, and the Graphic Arts -- Renaissance Versus "Late Gothic" Painting -- Music in Fifteenth-Century Flanders -- "Late Gothic" Sculpture -- The Graphic Arts -- Printmaking -- The Renaissance in the North -- Germany -- Music and Theater in the Northern Renaissance -- The Netherlands -- France -- The Baroque in Italy and Spain -- Painting in Italy -- Baroque Music in Italy -- Architecture in Italy -- Baroque Theater in Italy and Spain -- Sculpture in Italy -- Painting in Spain -- The Baroque in Flanders and Holland -- Flanders -- Holland -- Music and Theater in Holland -- The Baroque in France and England -- France: The Age of Versailles -- Baroque Theater and Music in France -- England -- Baroque Theater and Music in England -- The Rococo -- France -- England -- Germany and Austria -- Rococo Music -- Modern Harmony -- Italy -- Rococo Theater -- Timeline Three -- The Modern World -- Neoclassicism and Romanticism -- Neoclassicism -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Neoclassical Theater -- Neoclassical Music -- The Romantic Movement -- Painting -- New Printmaking Techniques -- The Romantic Movement in Literature and Theater -- Sculpture -- Romanticism in Music -- Architecture -- Decorative Arts -- Realism and Impressionism -- Painting -- Nationalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Music -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Realism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Theater -- Other Fields -- Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau -- Painting -- Music in the Post-Impressionist Era -- Sculpture -- Theater in the Post-Impressionist Era -- Architecture -- Twentieth-Century Painting -- Painting Before World War I -- Expressionism -- Abstraction -- Music Before World War I -- Theater Before World War I -- Fantasy -- Realism -- Painting Between the Wars -- Theater Between the Wars -- Music Between the Wars -- Painting Since World War II -- Theater Since World War II -- Late Modernism -- Music Since World War II -- Twentieth-Century Sculpture -- Sculpture Before World War I -- Sculpture Between The Wars -- Sculpture Since 1945 -- Twentieth-Century Architecture -- Architecture Before World War I -- Architecture Between the Wars -- Design -- Architecture From 1945 To 1980 -- Twentieth-Century Photography -- The First Half-Century -- Photography Since 1945 -- Postmodernism -- Postmodern Art -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Postmodernism in Music and Theater -- Postscript: Postmodern Theory -- Timeline Four.