Art Across Time Vol. 1 : Prehistory to the Fourteenth Century
ISBN: 9780077353735 | 0077353730
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 2/12/2010
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Art across Timecombines sound scholarship, lavish visuals, and a lively narrative to provide students with a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging introduction to Art History. Popular with majors and non-majors alike, the text offers readers more than a chronology of art by placing each work within the time-and-place context within which it was created. Encountering and interpreting a work of art in context offers the reader the richest possible experience of it. Large scale and high quality visual reproductions of artworks are often presente... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? | |
| The Art of Prehistory | |
| The Ancient Near East | |
| Ancient Egypt | |
| The Aegean | |
| The Art of Ancient Greece | |
| The Art of the Etruscans | |
| Ancient Rome | |
| Early Christian and Byzantine Art | |
| The Early Middle Ages | |
| Romanesque Art | |
| Gothic Art | |
| Precursors of the Renaissance | |
| Notes | |
| Glossary | |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
| Literary Acknowledgments | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Picture Credits | |
| Index | |
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