Includes bibliographical references (pages 1165-1188) and index.

Preface -- Introduction : What Is Art History? -- 1. Art in the Stone Age -- 2. Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia -- 3. Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra -- 4. The Prehistoric Aegean -- 5. Ancient Greece -- 6. The Etruscans -- 7. The Roman Empire -- 8. Late Antiquity -- 9. Byzantium -- 10. The Islamic World -- 11. Early Medieval Europe -- 12. Romanesque Europe -- 13. Gothic Europe -- 14. Late Medieval Italy -- 15. South and Southeast Asia before 1200 -- 16. China and Korea to 1279 -- 17. Japan before 1333 -- 18. Native American Cultures before 1300 -- 19. Africa before 1800 -- 20. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe -- 21. The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy -- 22. Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy -- 23. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain -- 24. The Baroque in Italy and Spain -- 25. The Baroque in Northern Europe -- 26. Rococo to Neoclassicism: The 18th Century in Europe and America --27. Romanticism, Realism, Photography : Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 -- 28. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism : Europe and America, 1870 to 1900 -- 29. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945 -- 30. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 -- 31. Contemporary Art Worldwide -- 32. South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980 -- 33. China and Korea, 1279 to 1980 -- 34. Japan, 1333 to 1980 -- 35. Native American Cultures, 1300 to 1980 -- 36. Oceania before 1980 -- 37. Africa, 1800 to 1980 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index.