The Story of Art

480 Pages·056.187 MB·English

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CONTENTS
PREFACE I
introduction: On Artand Artists 5
i. strange beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient
America 19
2. art for eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete 33
3. the great awakening: Greece, Seventhto Fifth CenturyB.C. 49
4. the realm of beauty: GreeceandtheGreekWorld,FourthCentury
B.C. to First Century a.d. 67
5. world conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews,and Christians, First
to Fourth CenturyA.D. 79
6. apartingofways:RomeandByzantium,FifthtoThirteenthCentury 91
7. looking eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century 99
8. western art in the melting pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh
Century 109
9. the church militant: TheTwelfth Century 119
10. the church triumphant: TheThirteenth Century 131
11. courtiers and burghers: The FourteenthCentury 149
12. the conquest of reality: The Early Fifteenth Century 161
13. tradition and innovation:TheLater FifteenthCenturyin Italy 177
14. tradition and innovation: The Fifteenth Century in the North 195
15. harmony attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century 209
16. light and colour:VeniceandNorthern ItalyintheEarlySixteenth
Century 237
17. the new learning spreads: Germanyand the Netherlands in the
Early Sixteenth Century 249
18. A crisis of art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century 265
19. vision and visions: CatholicEurope, FirstHalfofthe Seventeenth
Century 287
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20. the mirror of nature: Holland in the Seventeenth Century 309
21. power and glory:Italy,LaterSeventeenthandEighteenthCenturies 325
22. power and glory: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth
andEarly EighteenthCenturies 335
23. the age of reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century 343
24. the break in tradition: England, America and France, Late
Eighteenthand EarlyNineteenth Centuries 357
25. revolution in permanence: The Nineteenth Century 377
26. in search of new standards: The Late Nineteenth Century 403
27. experimental art: TheTwentieth Century 419
a note on art books 447
list of illustrations and acknowledgements 451
index and glossary 459