| Introduction: How to Look at a Painting | |
| The Birth of Art: Prehistoric through Medieval | 2 |
| Prehistoric Art: The Beginning | 4 |
| Mesopotamia: The Architects | 6 |
| Egypt: The Art of Immortality | 8 |
| Greece: They Invented a Lot More Than the Olympics | 12 |
| Rome: The Organizers | 16 |
| Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas: New World Art When It Was Still An Old World | 20 |
| African Art: The First Cubists | 22 |
| The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion | 24 |
| Golden Age of Byzantine Art | 24 |
| Romanesque Art: Stories in Stone | 26 |
| Gothic Art: Height and Light | 28 |
| The Rebirth of Art: Renaissance and Baroque | 30 |
| The Renaissance: The Beginning of Modern Painting | 32 |
| The Italian Renaissance | 34 |
| The Northern Renaissance | 40 |
| The Renaissance in the Low Countries | 40 |
| The German Renaissance | 42 |
| Mannerism and the Late Renaissance | 44 |
| The Spanish Renaissance | 45 |
| Baroque: The Ornate Age | 46 |
| Italian Baroque | 47 |
| Flemish Baroque | 50 |
| Dutch Baroque | 52 |
| English Baroque | 57 |
| Spanish Baroque | 60 |
| French Baroque | 62 |
| Rococo | 64 |
| The Nineteenth Century: Birth of the "ISMS" | 66 |
| Neoclassicism: Roman Fever | 68 |
| French Neoclassicism | 69 |
| American Neoclassicism | 72 |
| Goya: Man without An "ISM" | 74 |
| Romanticism: The Power of Passion | 76 |
| French Romanticism | 76 |
| English Romanticism | 79 |
| American Romanticism and Genre Painting | 81 |
| Realism | 83 |
| French Realism | 84 |
| American Realism | 85 |
| Architecture for the Industrial Age | 89 |
| Art Nouveau | 91 |
| Birth of Photography | 92 |
| Impressionism: Let There Be Color and Light | 96 |
| Rodin: First Modern Sculptor | 110 |
| Post-Impressionism | 112 |
| Early Expressionism | 123 |
| Symbolism | 124 |
| The Birth of Modern Architecture | 126 |
| The Twentieth Century: Modern Art | 128 |
| Fauvism: Exploding Color | 130 |
| Twentieth-Century Sculpture: A New Look | 133 |
| Twin Titans of the Twentieth Century: Matisse and Picasso | 134 |
| Cubism | 138 |
| Modernism Outside of France | 139 |
| Futurism | 139 |
| Constructivism | 140 |
| Precisionism | 141 |
| Expressionism | 142 |
| Mondrian: Harmony of Opposites | 145 |
| Modernist Architecture: Geometry to Live in | 146 |
| Dada and Surrealism: Art Between the Wars | 148 |
| Photography Comes of Age | 152 |
| American Art: 1908-40 | 154 |
| Abstract Expressionism | 158 |
| Figural Expressionism: Not Just a Pretty Face | 162 |
| Post-War Sculpture | 164 |
| Color Field | 166 |
| The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Contemporary Art | 168 |
| Hard Edge | 170 |
| Pre-Pop Art | 172 |
| Pop Art | 174 |
| Minimalism: The Cool School | 177 |
| Conceptual Art: Invisible Visual Art | 178 |
| Contemporary Architecture | 180 |
| Photography: What's New | 184 |
| Photo-Realism | 187 |
| Neo-Expressionism | 188 |
| The New Breed: Post-Modern Art | 190 |
| Index | 195 |
Format: Hardcover
