The Story Of Art - 16Th Edition
E.h. Gombrich / Ernst Hans Gombrich
Introduction: On Art and Artists 1 Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America 2 Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete 3 The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC 4 The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD 5 World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Cent...
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Introduction: On Art and Artists 1 Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America 2 Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete 3 The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC 4 The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD 5 World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD 6 A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century 7 Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century 8 Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century 9 The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century 10 The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century 11 Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century 12 The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century 13 Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy 14 Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North 15 Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century 16 Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century 17 The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century 18 A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century 19 Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century 20 The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century 21 Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 22 Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 23 The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century 24 The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 25 Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century 26 In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century 27 Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century 28 A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism Another Turning of the Tide The Changing Past A Note on Art Books Chronological Charts Maps List of Illustrations by Location Index and Glossary Acknowledgments.
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