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| Preface | p. vi |
| What's New | p. vi |
| Tools for Understanding Art History | p. viii |
| Faculty and Student Resources for Art History | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
| Use Notes | p. xix |
| Starter Kit | p. xx |
| Introduction | p. xxvi |
| Prehistoric Art in Europe | p. 1 |
| The Stone Age | p. 2 |
| The Paleolithic Period | ... MORE |
| Shelter or Architecture? | p. 2 |
| Artifacts or Works of Art? | p. 4 |
| Cave Painting | p. 6 |
| The Neolithic Period | p. 11 |
| Rock-Shelter Art | p. 12 |
| Architecture | p. 13 |
| Sculpture and Ceramics | p. 19 |
| From Stone to Metal | p. 20 |
| The Bronze Age | p. 20 |
| The Proto-Historic Iron Age | p. 21 |
| In Perspective | p. 22 |
| Timeline | p. 23 |
| Boxes The Object Speaks Prehistoric Woman and Man | p. 18 |
| Elements of Architecture Post-and-Lintel and Corbel Construction | p. 14 |
| Technique Prehistoric Wall Painting | p. 8 |
| Fiber Arts | p. 17 |
| Pottery and Ceramics | p. 20 |
| Art and Its Context The Power of Naming | p. 5 |
| Science and Technology How Early Art Is Dated | p. 13 |
| Art of the Ancient Near East | p. 24 |
| The Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia | p. 26 |
| The First Cities | p. 26 |
| The Arts | p. 28 |
| Southern Mesopotamia | p. 29 |
| Sumer | p. 29 |
| Akkad | p. 36 |
| Lagash and Gudea | p. 37 |
| Babylon: Hammurabi's Code | p. 37 |
| The Hittites of Anatolia | p. 37 |
| Later Mesopotamian Art | p. 40 |
| Assyria | p. 40 |
| Neo-Babylonia | p. 42 |
| Persia | p. 42 |
| Empire | p. 42 |
| Persepolis | p. 42 |
| Persian Coinage | p. 45 |
| In Perspective | p. 46 |
| Timeline | p. 47 |
| Boxes The Object Speaks The Code of Hammurabi | p. 38 |
| Technique Cuneiform Writing | p. 32 |
| Textiles | p. 44 |
| Coining Money | p. 46 |
| Art and Its Context Art as Spoils of War-Protection or Theft? | p. 31 |
| Art of Ancient Egypt | p. 48 |
| The Gift of the Nile | p. 50 |
| Early Dynastic Egypt | p. 50 |
| Manetho's List | p. 51 |
| Religion and the State | p. 51 |
| Artistic Conventions | p. 52 |
| Funerary Architecture | p. 55 |
| The Old Kingdom, c. 2575-2150 BCE | p. 56 |
| Architecture: The Pyramids at Giza | p. 57 |
| Sculpture | p. 59 |
| Tomb Decoration | p. 62 |
| The Middle Kingdom, c. 1975- c. 1640 BCE | p. 62 |
| Sculpture: Royal Portraits | p. 63 |
| Tomb Architecture and Funerary Objects | p. 63 |
| Town Planning | p. 66 |
| The New Kingdom, c. 1539-1075 BCE | p. 67 |
| The Great Temple Complexes | p. 67 |
| The Valley of the Kings and Queens | p. 70 |
| Akhenaten and the Art of the Amarna Period | p. 72 |
| The Return to Tradition: Tutankhamun and Rameses I | p. 75 |
| The Books of the Dead | p. 78 |
| Late Egyptian Art, c. 715-332 BCE | p. 79 |
| In Perspective | p. 80 |
| Timeline | p. 81 |
| Boxes The Object Speaks The Temples of Rameses II at Abu Simbel | p. 76 |
| Elements Of Architecture Mastaba to Pyramid | p. 56 |
| Technique Preserving the Dead | p. 55 |
| Egyptian Painting and Sculpture | p. 64 |
| Glassmaking and Egyptian Faience | p. 70 |
| Art and Its Context Egyptian Symbols | p. 52 |
| Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic Writing | p. 78 |
| Agean ART | p. 82 |
| The Bronze Age in the Aegean | p. 84 |
| The Cycladic Islands | p. 84 |
| The Minoan Civilization On Crete | p. 86 |
| The Old Palace Period, c. 1900-1700 BCE | p. 86 |
| The New Palace Period, c. 1700-1450 BCE | p. 89 |
| The Mycenaean (Helladic) Culture | p. 95 |
| Helladic Architecture | p. 95 |
| Metalwork | p. 102 |
| Sculpture | p. 103 |
| Ceramic Arts | p. 104 |
| In Perspective | p. 104 |
| Timeline | p. 105 |
| Boxes the Object Speaks The Lion Gate | p. 100 |
| Technique Aegean Metalwork | p. 93 |
| Art and Its Context Pioneers of Aegean Archaeology | p. 88 |
| Homeric Greece | p. 98 |
| Art of Ancient Greece | p. 106 |
| The Emergence of Greek Civilization | p. 108 |
| Historical Background | p. 108 |
| Religious Beliefs and Sacred Places | p. 109 |
| Historical Divisions of Greek Art | p. 111 |
| Greek Art From c. 900-c. 600 BCE | p. 112 |
| The Geometric Period | p. 112 |
| The Orientalizing Period | p. 114 |
| The Archaic Period, c. 600-480 BCE | p. 114 |
| Temple Architecture | p. 117 |
| Architectural Sculpture | p. 119 |
| Freestanding Sculpture | p. 121 |
| Vase Painting | p. 125 |
| The Classical Period, c. 480-323 BCE | p. 128 |
| The Canon of Polykleitos | p. 128 |
| The Art of the Early Classical Period, 480-450 BCE | p. 129 |
| The High Classical Period, c. 450-400 BCE | p. 135 |
| The Acropolis | p. 136 |
| The Parthenon | p. 136 |
| The Propylaia and the Erechtheion | p. 142 |
| The Temple of Athena Nike | p. 144 |
| The Athenian Agora | p. 145 |
| Stele Sculpture | p. 147 |
| Paintings: Murals and Vases | p. 148 |
| The Late Classical Period, c. 400-323 BCE | p. 148 |
| Architecture and Architectural Sculpture | p. 149 |
| Sculpture | p. 151 |
| The Art of the Goldsmith | p. 155 |
| Wall Painting and Mosaics | p. 155 |
| The Hellenistic Period, 323-31/30 BCE | p. 156 |
| The Corinthian Order in Hellenistic Architecture | p. 158 |
| Hellenistic Architecture: The Theater at Epidauros | p. 158 |
| Sculpture | p. 160 |
| The Multicultural Hellenistic World | p. 164 |
| In Perspective | p. 165 |
| Timeline | p. 167 |
| Boxes The Object Speaks The Parthenon | p. 138 |
| Elements of Architecture Greek Temple Plans | p. 116 |
| The Greek Architectural Orders | p. 118 |
| Technique Greek Painted Vases | p. 114 |
| The Discovery and Conservation of the Riace Warriors | p. 135 |
| Art and Its Context Greek and Roman Deities | p. 110 |
| Classic and Classical | p. 128 |
| Who Owns the Art? The Elgin Marbles and the Euphronios Vase | p. 145 |
| Women Artists in Ancient Greece | p. 157 |
| Etruscan and Roman Art | p. 168 |
| The Etruscans | p. 170 |
| Etruscan Architecture | p. 170 |
| Etruscan Temples and Their Decoration | p. 171 |
| Tomb Chambers | p. 174 |
| Bronze Work | p. 177 |
| The Romans | p. 178 |
| Origins of Rome | p. 179 |
| Roman Religion | p. 179 |
| The Republic, 509-27 BCE | p. 179 |
| Sculpture during the Republic | p. 180 |
| Architecture and Engineering | p. 181 |
| The Early Empire, 27 BCE-96 CE | p. 185 |
| Augustan Art | p. 186 |
| The Julio-Claudians | p. 189 |
| The Roman City and the Roman Home | p. 190 |
| Wall Painting | p. 193 |
| The Flavians | p. 199 |
| The High Imperial Art of Trajan and Hadrian | p. 204 |
| Imperial Architecture | p. 205 |
| Mosaics | p. 213 |
| Sculpture | p. 215 |
| Imperial Portraits | p. 216 |
| The Late Empire, Third and Fourth Centuries | p. 218 |
| The Severan Dynasty | p. 218 |
| The Third Century: The Soldier Emperors | p. 220 |
| The Tetrarchy | p. 222 |
| Constantine the Great and His Legacy | p. 224 |
| In Perspective | p. 230 |
| Timeline | p. 231 |
| Boxes The Object Speaks The Unswept Floor | p. 214 |
| Elements of Architecture Arch, Vault, and Dome | p. 172 |
| Roman Architectural Orders | p. 174 |
| Technique Roman Mosaics | p. 215 |
| Roman Copies | p. 224 |
| Art and Its Context Roman Writers on Art | p. 179 |
| Color in Roman Sculpture: A Colorized Augustus | p. 186 |
| The Position of Roman Women | p. 198 |
| World Map WM1 | |
| Glossary G1 | |
| Bibliography B1 | |
| Credits C1 | |
| Index I1 | |
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