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Janson's History of Art Vol. 1 : Western Tradition - Prehistoric Through Fourteenth-Century Ita...

ISBN: 9780131934689 | 0131934686
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in the History of Art.Completely rewritten and reorganized, this groundbreaking edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art.Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Seventh Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House,... MORE
Prefacexiii
Faculty and Student Resources for Teaching and Learning with Janson's History of Artxix
Introducing Artxxi
PART ONE THE ANCIENT WORLD
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Prehistoric Art
1(20)
Paleolithic Art
2(10)
Interpreting Prehistoric Painting
6(2)
Paleolithic Carving
8(4)
Neolithic Art
12(9)
Settled Societies and Neolithic Art
12(4)
Architecture in Europe: Tombs and Rituals
16
Materials and Techniques: Cave Painting
5(5)
Informing Art: Telling Time: Labels and Periods
10(11)
Ancient Near Eastern Art
21(26)
Sumerian Art
22(7)
Temple Architecture: Linking Heaven and Earth
23(2)
Sculpture and Inlay
25(2)
Visual Narratives
27(2)
Cylinder Seals
29(1)
Art of Akkad
29(2)
Sculpture: Power and Narrative
29(2)
Neo-Sumerian Revival
31(2)
Architecture: The Ziggurat of Ur
31(1)
Sculpture: Figures of Gudea
32(1)
Babylonian Art
33(1)
The Code of Hammurabi
33(1)
Assyrian Art
34(3)
Art of Empire: Expressing Royal Power
34(3)
Late Babylonian Art
37(1)
The Royal Palace
37(1)
Regional Near Eastern Art
38(1)
The Hittites
38(1)
The Phoenicians
38(1)
Iranian Art
39(8)
Early Iranian Art
39(1)
The Persian Empire: Cosmopolitan Heirs to the Mesopotamian Tradition
40(3)
Mesopotamia Between Persian and Islamic Dominion
43
Materials and Techniques: Mud Brick
23(2)
Primary Sources: The Gilgamesh Epic
25(7)
Texts on Gudea Figures from Lagash and Surrounding Areas, ca. 2100
32(2)
The Code of Hammurabi
34(8)
The Art Historian's Lens: Losses Through Looting
42(5)
Egyptian Art
47(32)
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art
48(2)
The Palette of King Narmer
48(2)
The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age
50(9)
Old Kingdom Funerary Complexes
50(2)
The Pyramids at Giza: Reflecting a New Royal Role
52(3)
Representing the Human Figure
55(4)
The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition Through the Arts
59(3)
Royal Portraiture: Changing Expressions and Proportions
59(1)
Funerary Architecture
60(2)
The New Kingdom: Restored Glory
62(7)
Royal Burials in the Valley of the Kings
62(2)
Temples to the Gods
64(3)
Block Statues
67(1)
Images in New Kingdom Tombs
68(1)
Akhenaten and the Amarna Style
69(4)
The Amarna Style
70(2)
Tutankhamen and the Aftermath of Amarna
72(1)
Papyrus Scrolls: The Book of the Dead
73(1)
Late Egypt
74(5)
Materials and Techniques: Building the Pyramids
75
Informing Art: Major Periods in Ancient Egypt
51(5)
Primary Sources: Excerpt from the Pyramid Text of Unis (r. 2341--2311 BCE)
56(14)
Love Song
70(3)
The Book of the Dead
73(3)
The Art Historian's Lens: Interpreting Ancient Travel Writers
76(3)
Aegean Art
79(22)
Early Cycladic Art
80(2)
Minoan Art
82(9)
The Palace at Knossos
82(4)
Wall Paintings: Representing Rituals and Nature
86(2)
Minoan Pottery
88(1)
Carved Minoan Stone Vessels
89(2)
Late Minoan Art
91(1)
Mycenaean Art
92(9)
Architecture: Citadels
92(4)
Mycenaean Tombs and Their Contents
96(2)
Sculpture
98
Materials and Techniques: Cyclopean Masonry
94
The Art Historian's Lens: Two Excavators, Legend, and Archeology
85(16)
Greek Art
101(60)
The Emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style
102(3)
Geometric Style Pottery
103(2)
Geometric Style Sculpture
105(1)
The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand
105(3)
Miniature Vessels
105(3)
Archaic Art: Art of the City-State
108(13)
The Rise of Monumental Temple Architecture
108(4)
Stone Sculpture
112(3)
Architectural Sculpture: The Building Comes Alive
115(4)
Vase Painting: Art of the Symposium
119(2)
The Classical Age
121(20)
Classical Sculpture
122(6)
Architecture and Sculpture on the Akropolis
128(13)
The Late Classical Period
141(5)
Late Classical Architecture: Civic and Sacred
141(4)
Painting in the Late Classical Age
145(1)
The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period
146(15)
Architecture: The Scholarly Tradition and Theatricality
146(3)
City Planning
149(1)
Hellenistic Sculpture: Expression and Movement
150(7)
Hellenistic Painting
157
Materials and Techniques: The Indirect Lost-Wax Process
124
Informing Art: The Greek Gods and Goddesses
102(25)
Primary Sources: Aristotle (384--322) BCE
127(4)
Plutarch (ca. 46-after 119 CE)
131(5)
The Art Historian's Lens: The Parthenon Frieze: A New Interpretation
136(20)
J.J. Winckelmann and The Apollo Belvedere
156(5)
Etruscan Art
161(16)
Funerary Art
162(7)
Tombs and Their Contents
162(7)
Architecture
169(2)
City Planning
170(1)
Sculpture
171(6)
Dynamism in Terra Cotta and Bronze
171
Materials and Techniques: Etruscan Gold-Working
164(13)
Roman Art
177(58)
Early Rome and the Republic
177(14)
Architecture: The Concrete Revolution
179(6)
Sculpture
185(5)
Painting
190(1)
The Early Empire
191(18)
Portrait Sculpture
191(4)
Relief Sculpture
195(8)
Architecture
203(6)
Art and Architecture in the Provinces
209(3)
Domestic Art and Architecture
212(7)
The Late Empire
219(6)
Portrait Sculpture
219(2)
Relief Sculpture
221(2)
Architecture
223(2)
Late Roman Architecture in the Provinces
225(10)
Materials and Techniques: Copying Greek Sculptures
188
Primary Sources: Cicero (106--43 BCE)
186(4)
Polybius (ca. 200--ca. 118 BCE)
190(8)
Josephus (37/8--ca. 100 CE)
198(14)
Vitruvius
212(6)
Philostratus (170--247 CE)
218
The Art Historian's Lens: Recognizing Copies: The Case of the Laocoon
179(51)
Additional Primary Sources for Part One: The Code of Hammurabi
230(1)
A Hymn to Aten
230(1)
Pliny the Elder (23--79 CE)
230(1)
Vergil (70--19 BCE)
231(1)
Vitruvius (1st Century BCE)
232(3)
PART TWO THE MIDDLE AGES
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
235(42)
Early Christian Art
237(16)
Christian Art before Constantine
237(4)
Christian Art after Official Recognition of Christianity
241(12)
Byzantine Art
253(24)
Early Byzantine Art
253(11)
The Iconoclastic Controversy
264(1)
Middle Byzantine Art
265(8)
Late Byzantine Art
273
Materials and Techniques: Mosaics
246
Informing Art: The Life of Jesus
240(33)
Biblical and Celestial Beings
273
Primary Sources: The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis)
244(14)
Procopius of Caesarea (6th Century)
258(8)
St. Theodore the Studite (759--826 CE)
266
The Art Historian's Lens: The Cotton Library Fire
251(26)
Islamic Art
277(34)
The Formation of Islamic Art
279(3)
Religious Architecture
279(3)
Secular Architecture
282(1)
The Development of Islamic Style
282(4)
Religious Architecture
283(2)
Luxury Arts
285(1)
Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance
286(3)
Architecture
286(2)
Figural Art Forms in Iran
288(1)
The Classical Age
289(3)
The Fatimid Artistic Impact
289(2)
The Ayyubids and the Seljuk Turks of Asia Minor
291(1)
Later Classical Art and Architecture
292(7)
Mongol Patronage
292(2)
Timurid Patronage
294(1)
Mamluk Patronage
295(2)
Nasrid Patronage: The Alhambra
297(2)
The Three Late Empires
299(8)
The Ottomans in Europe and Asia
300(2)
The Safavid Period in Iran
302(4)
The Mughal Period in India
306(1)
Continuity and Change in Islamic Art
307(4)
Materials and Techniques: The Oriental Carpet
298
Informing Art: Islam and Its Messenger
278(2)
Primary Sources: Muhammad Ibn Mahmud Al-Amuli (Iran, 14th Century)
280(22)
The Ottoman Sultan Selim II (1524--1574)
302(6)
Abd Al-Hamid Lahori (d. 1654)
308
The Art Historian's Lens: Spanish Islamic Art and Europe in the Middle Ages
287(24)
Early Medieval Art
311(34)
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Art
312(4)
The Animal Style
314(2)
Hiberno-Saxon Art
316(5)
Manuscripts
316(5)
Carolingian Art
321(9)
Sculpture
321(1)
Illuminated Books
322(3)
Architecture
325(5)
Ottonian Art
330(15)
Architecture
330(3)
Metalwork
333(4)
Ivories and Manuscripts: Conveyors of Imperial Grandeur
337(3)
Sculpture
340
Materials and Techniques: Metalwork
313(5)
Primary Sources: Lindisfarne Gospels
318(10)
Hariulf (ca. 1060--1143)
328(2)
St. Angilbert (ca. 750--814)
330(15)
Romanesque Art
345(40)
First Expressions of Romanesque Style
347(1)
Architecture
347(1)
Monumental Stone Sculpture
348(1)
Mature Romanesque
348(23)
Pilgrimage Churches and Their Art
348(7)
Cluniac Architecture and Sculpture
355(9)
Cluniac Wall Painting
364(1)
Cistercian Architecture and Art
364(1)
Other Benedictine Architecture and Wall Painting
365(1)
Book Illustration
366(5)
Regional Variants of Romanesque Style
371(11)
Western France: Poitou
371(1)
Southeastern France: Provence
371(2)
Tuscany
373(2)
The Meuse Valley: Mosan Style
375(1)
Germany
375(1)
Normandy and England
376(6)
The Paradoxical Meaning of Romanesque
382(3)
Materials and Techniques: Vaulting
378
Primary Sources: From Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela
350(8)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090--1153)
358(10)
The Art Historian's Lens: Preserving and Restoring Architecture
368(17)
Gothic Art
385(48)
Early Gothic Art in France
387(9)
Saint-Denis: Suger and the Beginnings of Gothic Architecture
387(4)
Chartres Cathedral
391(2)
Laon Cathedral
393(1)
Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Paris
394(2)
High Gothic Art in France
396(14)
The Rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral
396(9)
Amiens Cathedral
405(1)
Reims Cathedral
406(4)
Rayonnant or Court Style
410(5)
Saint-Chapelle
410(2)
Saint-Urbain in Troyes
412(1)
Manuscript Illumination
413(2)
Late Gothic Art in France
415(5)
Manuscript Illumination
415(2)
Sculpture
417(2)
Architecture: The Flamboyant Phase
419(1)
The Spread of Gothic Art
420(13)
England
420(5)
Germany
425(3)
Spain
428(2)
Italy: A Preview
430
Materials and Techniques: Stained Glass
403
Primary Sources: Suger of Saint-Denis (1081--1151) (Church of Saint-Denis)
388(2)
Suger of Saint-Denis (1081--1151) (His Administration)
390(10)
Theophilus Presbyter (12th Century)
400(2)
The Art Historian's Lens: Modules and Proportions
402(31)
Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
433
Church Architecture and the Growth of the Mendicant Orders
434(10)
The Franciscans at Assisi
435(2)
Churches and Their Furnishings in Urban Centers
437(4)
Expanding Florence Cathedral
441(3)
Buildings for City Government: The Palazzo della Signoria
444(1)
Painting in Tuscany
444(15)
Cimabue and Giotto
445(3)
Siena: Devotion to Mary in Works by Duccio and Simone
448(6)
Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti
454(2)
Artists and Patrons in Times of Crisis
456(3)
Northern Italy
459
Venice: Political Stability and Sumptuous Architecture
459(1)
Milan: The Visconti Family and Northern Influences
460
Materials and Techniques: Fresco Painting and Conservation
438(14)
Primary Sources: Agnolo di Tura del Grasso
452(4)
Inscriptions on the Frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
456
The Art Historian's Lens: The Social Works of Images
450(14)
Additional Primary Sources for Part Two: The Holy Bible
464(1)
Pope Gregory I (r. 590--604)
464(1)
Nicholas Mesarites (ca. 1163--after 1214)
464(1)
The Qur'an: God's Promise to Paradise to Good Muslims (Sura 55 [``The All-Merciful'']: 45--78)
464(1)
St. Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480--ca. 553)
465(1)
From Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela
466(1)
Robert de Torigny (d. 1186)
466(1)
Villard de Honnecourt (13th Century)
466(1)
Anonymous
466(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)
467(1)
Petrarch
467(1)
Dante Alighieri
467
Glossary1(1)
Bibliography1(1)
Index1(1)
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