An illustrated comprehensive Art History Guide from prehistoric to postmodern periods. Navigate from TOC or search for words or phrases. FREE Prehistoric Art chapter in the trial version.

Audience: Intended for everyone interested in art history, particularly undergraduate and graduate students and advanced high school students.

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Table of Contents

PREHISTORIC ART: Palaeolithic | Mesolithic | Neolithic | Bronze age | Iron age

ANCIENT ART: Ancient Egyptian Art | Arts of the Ancient Aegean | Greek Art: historical periods, architecture, pottery, sculpture | Roman Art

EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE: Early and Imperial Christianity | Byzantine

MEDIEVAL ART: Celtic art | Migration Period | Romanesque art | Gothic art

THE RENAISSANCE: From Gothic to the Renaissance | Early Renaissance: Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio | High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Santi. | Northern Renaissance | Renaissance Architecture

MANNERISM, BAROQUE, AND ROCOCO: Mannerism | Baroque | Rococo

NEOCLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM, AND REALISM: Neoclassicism | Romanticism | Realism

MODERN ART: Overview | Impressionism: Art Movement, �douard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet | Post-Impressionism: Art Movement, Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Fauvism | Expressionism | Cubism | Surrealism | Dada | Futurism | Suprematism | Constructivism | Abstract Expressionism | Pop art: Art Movement, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg.

CONTEMPORARY AND POSTMODERN ART: Conceptual art | Stuckism | Postmodern art

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