- WHAT IS ART HISTORY? INTRODUCTION
- Art History in the 21st Century
- Different Ways of Seeing
- CHAPTER
- ART BEFORE HISTORY
- Paleolithic Art
- Neolithic Art
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Paleolithic Cave Painting
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Art in the Old Stone Age
- Paintings? ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:The World’s Oldest
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- THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
- Sumer
- Akkad and the Third Dynasty of Ur
- Second Millennium BCE
- Assyria
- Neo-Babylonia and Persia
- of Mesopotamia ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY: The Gods and Goddesses
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Mesopotamian Seals
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Enheduanna, Priestess and Poet
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:The Piety of Gudea
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Hammurabi’s Law Code
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Babylon, City of Wonders
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- THE PHARAOHS EGYPT UNDER
- The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods
- The Old Kingdom
- The Middle Kingdom
- The New Kingdom
- First Millennium BCE
- of Egypt ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Gods and Goddesses
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Mummification and Immortality
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:Building the Great Pyramids
- Be King ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Hatshepsut, the Woman Who Would
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- THE PREHISTORIC AEGEAN
- Cycladic Art
- Minoan Art
- Mycenaean Art
- Market ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Archaeology, Art History, and the Art
- of Aegean Art ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Theran Eruption and the Chronology
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- ANCIENT GREECE
- Geometric and Orientalizing Periods
- Archaic Period
- Early and High Classical Periods
- Late Classical Period
- Hellenistic Period
- of Mount Olympus ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Gods and Goddesses
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Greek Vase Painting
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS: Greek Temple Plans
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:Doric and Ionic Orders
- Heroes ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Herakles, Greatest of Greek
- Bronze Statues ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Hollow-Casting Life-Size
- Statue ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Polykleitos’s Prescription for the Perfect
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Hegeso Stele
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Corinthian Capital
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- BEFORE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
- India and Pakistan
- Southeast Asia
- Iconography ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Buddhism and Buddhist
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Ashoka’s Conversion to Buddhism
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Stupa
- of Ajanta ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:The Painted Caves
- Iconography ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY: Hinduism and Hindu
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:Hindu Temples
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- CHINA AND KOREA TO
- China
- Korea
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Shang Bronze-Casting
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Chinese Jade
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Daoism and Confucianism
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Silk and the Silk Road
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:Chinese Wooden Construction
- and Formats ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Chinese Painting Materials
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Xie He’s Six Canons
- and Stonewares ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Chinese Earthenwares
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGYChan Buddhism
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- Japan before Buddhism
- Buddhist Japan
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Shinto
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Heian Court Culture
- Workshops ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Heian and Kamakura Artistic
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- Early Etruscan Art
- Later Etruscan Art
- of Greco-Roman Gods and Heroes ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY: Etruscan Counterparts
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: Etruscan Artists in Rome
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The “Audacity” of Etruscan Women
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- Republic
- Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius
- Early Empire
- High Empire
- Late Empire
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: An Outline of Roman History
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS: Roman Concrete Construction
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Art for Former Slaves
- of Mount Vesuvius ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: An Eyewitness Account of the Eruption
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Roman House
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Role Playing in Roman Portraiture
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:The Golden House of Nero
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Spectacles in the Colosseum
- Damascus ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Hadrian and Apollodorus of
- of Encaustic Painting ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Iaia of Cyzicus and the Art
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- Dura-Europos
- The Catacombs and Funerary Art
- Architecture and Mosaics
- Luxury Arts
- Art ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Jewish Subjects in Christian
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Life of Jesus in Art
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Mosaics
- Illumination ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Medieval Manuscript
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Ivory Carving
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- Early Byzantine Art
- Middle Byzantine Art
- Late Byzantine Art
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:Pendentives and Squinches
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Theodora, a Most Unusual Empress
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:The Emperors of New Rome
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Icons and Iconoclasm
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- THE ISLAMIC WORLD
- Early Islamic Art
- Later Islamic Art
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Muhammad and Islam
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Mosque
- Selim II ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Sinan the Great and the Mosque of
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Islamic Tilework
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Christian Patronage of Islamic Art
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- BEFORE NATIVE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS
- Mesoamerica
- Intermediate Area
- South America
- North America
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Mesoamerican Ball Game
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Andean Weaving
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Serpent Mound
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- Prehistory and Early Cultures
- 11th to 18th Centuries
- Artists ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Dating African Art and Identifying African
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Art and Leadership in Africa
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Idealized Naturalism at Ile-Ife
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- EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
- Art of the Warrior Lords
- Christian Art: Scandinavia, British Isles, Spain
- Carolingian Art
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- ITALY, 1200 TO
- The 13th Century
- The 14th Century
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Italian Artists’ Names
- Orders, and Confraternities ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Great Schism, Mendicant
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Fresco Painting
- and Contracts ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: Artists’ Guilds, Commissions,
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Artistic Training in Renaissance Italy
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- 1400 TO NORTHERN EUROPE,
- Burgundy and Flanders
- France
- Holy Roman Empire
- Painting ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Tempera and Oil
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Framed Paintings
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Artist’s Profession in Flanders
- and Etchings ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Woodcuts, Engravings,
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- Florence
- The Princely Courts
- Systems ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Renaissance Perspectival
- Emulation in Renaissance Art ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Cennino Cennini on Imitation and
- Endowments ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Renaissance Family Chapel
- Patronage ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Italian Princely Courts and Artistic
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- Ottonian Art
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Medieval Books
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Four Evangelists
- Romani ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Charlemagne’s Renovatio Imperii
- and Benedictine Rule ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Medieval Monasteries
- in Ottonian Germany ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Theophanu, a Byzantine Princess
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- ROMANESQUE EUROPE
- France and Northern Spain
- Holy Roman Empire
- Italy
- Normandy and England
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Pilgrimages and the Cult of Relics
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: Timber Roofs and Stone Vaults
- Sculpture ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: Bernard of Clairvaux on Cloister
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS: The Romanesque Church Portal
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:The Crusades
- and Nuns ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Romanesque Countesses, Queens,
- and Tapestry ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Embroidery
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- French Gothic
- Gothic outside of France
- of Saint-Denis ❚WRITTEN SOURCES: Abbot Suger and the Rebuilding
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Gothic Rib Vault
- and Architecture ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Scholasticism and Gothic Art
- ❚ARCHITECTURAL BASICS:The Gothic Cathedral
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Stained-Glass Windows
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Louis IX, the Saintly King
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- ITALY, 1500 TO
- High and Late Renaissance
- Mannerism
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Renaissance Drawings
- on Painting versus Sculpture ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Leonardo and Michelangelo
- Paintings ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Restoring Renaissance
- Italy ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Religious Art in Counter-Reformation
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Palma il Giovane on Titian
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Women in the Renaissance Art World
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- 1500 TO NORTHERN EUROPE AND SPAIN,
- Holy Roman Empire
- France
- The Netherlands
- Spain
- of Salvation ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Catholic and Protestant Views
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Protestantism and Iconoclasm
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- 1600 TO ITALY AND SPAIN,
- Italy
- Spain
- Carracci and Caravaggio ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Giovanni Pietro Bellori on Annibale
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:The Letters of Artemisia Gentileschi
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Velázquez and Philip IV
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- 1600 TO NORTHERN EUROPE,
- Flanders
- Dutch Republic
- France
- England
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Rubens on Consequences of War
- in the Dutch Republic ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Middle-Class Patronage and the Art Market
- on Painting ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Poussin’s Notes for a Treatise
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- AFTER SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
- India
- Southeast Asia
- Contemporary Art
- Painting ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Indian Miniature
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- AFTER CHINA AND KOREA
- China
- Korea
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Chinese Porcelain
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Lacquered Wood
- on Chinese Paintings ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Calligraphy and Inscriptions
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- JAPAN AFTER
- Japan, 1336 to
- Modern Japan
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Zen Buddhism
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Japanese Tea Ceremony
- Prints ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Japanese Woodblock
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- 1700 TO EUROPE AND AMERICA,
- Rococo
- The Enlightenment
- Neoclassicism
- Salon Culture ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Femmes Savantes and
- ❚WRITTEN SOURCES:Diderot on Chardin
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Grand Tour and Veduta Painting
- and Pompeii ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Excavations of Herculaneum
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART: David on Greek Style and Public Art
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- 1800 TO EUROPE AND AMERICA,
- Art under Napoleon
- Romanticism
- Realism
- Architecture
- Photography
- and Literature ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Romantic Spirit in Art, Music,
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Delacroix in Morocco
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Courbet on Realism
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Lithography
- and Wet-Plate Photography ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES:Daguerreotype, Calotype,
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- 1870 TO EUROPE AND AMERICA,
- Impressionism
- Post-Impressionism
- Symbolism
- Sculpture
- Architecture and Decorative Arts
- Art Exhibitions ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Academic Salons and Independent
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Renoir on the Art of Painting
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Japonisme
- Theory ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: 19th-Century Color
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- and Photography ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Rodin on Movement in Art
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- AFTER NATIVE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS
- Mesoamerica
- South America
- North America
- ❚RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:Aztec Religion
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Gender Roles in Native American Art
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- Australia and Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Women’s Roles in Oceania
- ❚MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Tongan Barkcloth
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Tattoo in Polynesia
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- AFRICA AFTER
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Contemporary Art
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Gender Roles in African Art Production
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:African Artists and Apprentices
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:African Masquerades
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Mende Women as Maskers
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- 1900 TO EUROPE AND AMERICA,
- Europe, 1900 to
- America, 1900 to
- Europe, 1920 to
- America, 1930 to
- Architecture
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Matisse on Color
- 20th Century ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Science and Art in the Early
- and the Avant-Garde ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Gertrude and Leo Stein
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Primitivism and Colonialism
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Picasso on Cubism
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Futurist Manifestos
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Art “Matronage” in America
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Armory Show
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Degenerate Art
- on Abstract Sculpture ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Brancusi, Hepworth, and Moore
- and the Avant-Garde ❚ART AND SOCIETY:The Museum of Modern Art
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Rivera on Art for the People
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- AFTER EUROPE AND AMERICA
- Painting and Sculpture, 1945 to
- Painting and Sculpture since
- Architecture and Site-Specific Art
- Performance and Conceptual Art and New Media
- and Mural Painting ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Jackson Pollock on Easel
- Painting ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Helen Frankenthaler on Color-Field
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:David Smith on Outdoor Sculpture
- and Industrial Materials ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Donald Judd on Sculpture
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Roy Lichtenstein on Pop Art
- and Photography ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Chuck Close on Portrait Painting
- ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Judy Chicago on The Dinner Party
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Public Funding of Controversial Art
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY: Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Architecture ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Philip Johnson on Postmodern
- and Materials ❚ARTISTS ON ART:Frank Gehry on Architectural Design
- ❚ART AND SOCIETY:Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc
- Performance Art, and Art History ❚ARTISTS ON ART: Carolee Schneemann on Painting,
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- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CREDITS
- INDEX