Includes bibliographical references (pages 1177-1201) and index.

What is art history? -- Art in the Stone Age -- Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia -- Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra -- The prehistoric Aegean -- Ancient Greece -- The Etruscans -- The Roman Empire -- Late antiquity -- Byzantium -- The Islamic world -- Early Medieval Europe -- Romanesque Europe -- Gothic Europe north of the Alps -- Late Medieval Italy -- South and Southeast Asia before 1200 -- China and Korea to 1279 -- Japan before 1333 -- Native American cultures before 1300 -- Africa before 1800 -- Late Medieval and early Renaissance Northern Europe -- The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy -- Renaissance and mannerism in Cinquecento Italy -- High Renaissance and mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain -- The baroque in Italy and Spain -- The baroque in Northern Europe -- Rococo to neoclassicism: the 18th century in Europe and America -- Romanticism, realism, photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 -- Impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism: Europe and America, 1870-1900 -- Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism in the United States and Mexico, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism and postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 -- Contemporary art worldwide -- South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980 -- China and Korea, 1279 to 1980 -- Japan, 1333 to 1980 -- Native American cultures, 1300 to 1980 -- Oceania before 1980 -- Africa, 1800 to 1980.

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