Chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voic to this classic text.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Onward into the Past. Part 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD. 2. Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.E. 3. Hellenistic Style. 4. Roman Style. Part 2: EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND MEDIEVAL STYLES. 5. Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Styles. 6. Romanesque Style. 7. Gothic Style. 8. International Styles in the Late Medieval Period. Part 3: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION. 9. Florentine Renaissance Style. 10. Roman Renaissance Style. 11. Northern Renaissance and Reformation Style. 12. The Venetian Renaissance and the Rise of International Mannerism. Part 4: COUNTER-REFORMATION, BAROQUE, AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STYLES. 13. Counter-Reformation to Baroque. 14. Aristocracy Baroque Style in France and England. 15. Bourgeois Baroque Style. 16. The Enlightenment. Part 5: THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. 17. Neoclassicism: Style and Reaction. 18. Romantic Style. 19. Realism, Impressionism, Post-impressionism, and Symbolism. 20. Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part I: Art Prior to World War I. 21. Twentieth-Century Modernism, Part II: Art Between the World Wars. 22. Mid-Twentieth-Century Styles. 23. Into a New Millennium.

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"The illustrations for this text are sumptuous. There's no other word for Fleming's book: beautiful. And the selections of images are the ones I would want, and more."