Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ancient world. Prehistoric art ; Ancient Near Eastern art ; Egyptian art ; Aegean art ; Greek art ; Etruscan art ; Roman art. -- The Middle Ages. Early Christian and Byzantine art ; Islamic art ; Early Medieval art ; Romanesque art ; Gothic art. -- The Renaissance through the Rococo. Art in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy ; Artistic innovations in fifteenth-century Northern Europe ; The early Renaissance in fifteenth-century Italy ; The high Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520 ; The late Renaissance and Mannerism in sixteenth-century Italy ; Renaissance and Reformation in sixteenth-century Northern Europe ; The Baroque in Italy and Spain ; The Baroque in the Netherlands ; The Baroque in France and England ; The Rococo. -- The modern world. Art in the age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789 ; Art in the age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 ; The age of positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 ; Progress and its discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905 ; Toward abstraction: the Modernist revolution, 1904-1914 ; Art between the wars ; Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 ; The Postmodern era: art since 1980.