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