Introduction

Part 1: The Earliest Art

Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Art: 65,000–3200 B.C.E.

Chapter 2: Art of Early Africa: 8000 B.C.E.–1000 C.E.

Chapter 3: Art of Mesopotamia and West Asia: 5000–2000 B.C.E.

Chapter 4: Egyptian Art from the Predynastic Nile Valley through the Old Kingdom: 4000–2000 B.C.E.

Seeing Connections: The Art of Trade and Diplomacy

Chapter 5: Art of West Asian Empires: 2000–330 B.C.E.

Chapter 6: Egyptian Art from the Middle Kingdom through the Late Period: 2000–525 B.C.E.

Seeing Connections: Ancient Writing Systems 

Chapter 7: Early Art from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania: 2600 BCE–300 C.E.

Chapter 8: Art of Early East Asia: 4000–200 B.C.E.

Chapter 9: Cycladic and Minoan Art: 3000–1200 B.C.E.

Chapter 10: Mycenaean and Iron Age Greek Art: 1700–600 B.C.E.

Chapter 11: Art of Early South America: before 600 C.E.

 

Part 2: Early Cities and Empires

Chapter 12: Art of Early Mesoamerica: before 600 C.E.

Seeing Connections: Stolen Things: Looting and Repatriation of Ancient Objects

Chapter 13: Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art: 600–460 B.C.E.

Chapter 14: Art of Classical Greece: 450–400 B.C.E.

Chapter 15: Late Classical Greek and Hellenistic Art: 400–31 B.C.E.

Seeing Connections: Early Global Networks: The Silk Road

Chapter 16: The Development of Buddhist and Hindu Art in South Asia and Southeast Asia: 250 B.C.E.–800 C.E.

Chapter 17: Villanovan and Etruscan Art: 900–270 B.C.E.

Chapter 18: Art of the Roman Republic: 509–27 B.C.E.

Chapter 19: Art of the Roman Empire from Augustus through the Julio-Claudians: 27 B.C.E.–68 C.E.

Chapter 20: Art of the Roman Empire from the Flavians through the Good Emperors: 69–192 C.E.

Chapter 21: Art of Rising Empires in Japan and China: 400 BCE–581 C.E.

Seeing Connections: The Cultural Power of Gold across the World

Chapter 22: Art of the Late Roman Empire: 193–337 C.E.

Chapter 23: Jewish and Christian Art in Late Antiquity: 150–500 C.E.

 

Part 3: The Spread of Religions

Chapter 24: The Development of Islamic Art in North Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia: 600–1000

Chapter 25: Art of African Kingdoms and Empires: 300–1500

Chapter 26: Monumental Art in South Asia and Southeast Asia: 700–1400

Chapter 27: The Dissemination of Buddhism and East Asian Art: 500–1200

Seeing Connections: Art and Ritual

Chapter 28: Art of the Byzantine Empire: 540–1450

Chapter 29: Art of Early Medieval Europe: 600–1250

Chapter 30: Art of the Americas: 600–1300

Chapter 31: Art during the Song and Yuan Dynasties of China: 960–1368

Seeing Connections: Pax Mongolica

Chapter 32: Transformative Eras and Art in Korea and Japan: 1200–1600

Chapter 33: The Regionalization of Islamic Art in North Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia: 1000–1400

Seeing Connections: The Art of Writing

Chapter 34: Art of the Mediterranean World: 500–1500 Trial Access Available

Chapter 35: Romanesque Art and Architecture in Europe: 1000–1200

Chapter 36: Gothic Art and Architecture in Europe: 1200–1400

Chapter 37: Art of the Late Middle Ages in Italy: 1200–1400

 

Part 4: Looking Inward, Exploring Outward

Chapter 38: Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Art in Florence: 1400–1500

Chapter 39: Fifteenth-Century Renaissance Art in South, Central, and Northern Italy: 1400–1500

Chapter 40: Fifteenth-Century Art of France, Flanders, and Germany: 1400–1500

Seeing Connections: The World in Perspective

Chapter 41: Art of Mesoamerica and North America: after 1300

Chapter 42: Art of Central and South America

Seeing Connections: Mapping the World

Chapter 43: Art in Late Imperial China: 1368–1795

Chapter 44: Art in Early Modern Korea and Japan: 1600–1900

Chapter 45: Renaissance Art in Italy at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: 1470–1520

Chapter 46: Sixteenth-Century Art of Northern Europe: 1500–1600

Chapter 47: Sixteenth-Century Art of Italy: 1500–1600

Chapter 48: Sixteenth-Century Art of Spain, France, and England: 1500–1600

Seeing Connections: Sixteenth Century Art of Spain, France, and England

Chapter 49: African Art and Global Trade: 1450–1860 Trial Access Available

Chapter 50: Islamic Art of Empires in North Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia: 1400–1800

Chapter 51: Early Modern Art of South Asia and Southeast Asia: 1400–1800

Chapter 52: Art of Oceania: 1200–1800

Seeing Connections: The Artist’s Workshop

Chapter 53: Baroque Art of Europe: 1600–1750

Chapter 54: Art of the Dutch Republic: 1600–1700

Part 5: Imperialism, Revolution, and Innovation

Chapter 55: Art of the Enlightenment in Europe and North America: 1700–1800

Chapter 56: Rococo Art in Europe: 1700–1800

Chapter 57: Neoclassical Art in Europe and North America: 1700–1800 Trial Access Available

Chapter 58: Romantic Art in Europe and North America: 1780–1870

Seeing Connections: Picturing the Other in the Age of Imperialism

Chapter 59: Art of Oceania in the Colonial and Postcolonial Era: 1800 to the present

Chapter 60: Art of Colonial and Independent South Asia and Southeast Asia: 1800 to the present

Seeing Connections: Empire Building

Chapter 61: Realism in European and North American Art: 1830–1890

Chapter 62: Modernity and Impressionism in European Art: 1860–1890

Seeing Connections: The Spread of Photography

Chapter 63: Avant-Garde Art in Europe: 1880–1900

Chapter 64: African Art, Colonialism, and the Modern World: 1860–1960

Part 6: Art in a Connected World

Chapter 65: European and North American Art at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880–1915

Chapter 66: Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism in European Modern Art: 1900–1930

Seeing Connections: The Universal impulse toward Abstraction

Chapter 67: Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Political Protest in European and Mexican Modern Art: 1910–1940

Chapter 68: Modernity and Identity in East Asian Art: 1850–1980

Seeing Connections: Modern Art and War

Chapter 69: Modern and Contemporary Art of North Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia: 1800 to the present

Chapter 70: Constructivism, De Stijl, and the Bauhaus in European and American Modern Art: 1915–1960

Chapter 71: Modern Art in North America: 1925–1965

Chapter 72: Art of Independent African Nations: 1960–2000

Chapter 73: Pluralism and Postmodern Art in Europe and the Americas: 1960–1995

Seeing Connections: Diaspora in the Modern World

Chapter 74: Art of the Global Contemporary: 1980 to the present