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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? | |
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| The Western Tradition (box) | |
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| The Artistic Impulse Chronology (box) | |
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| Why Is Art Valued? | |
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| Material Value Intrinsic Value Religious Value Nationalistic Value Brancusi’s Bird: Manufactured Metal or a Work of Art? (box) | |
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| Psychological Value Art and Illusion Images and Words (box) | |
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| Artists and Gods Art and Identification Reflections and Shadows: Legends of How Art Began Image Magic Architecture Archaeology and Art History The Archaeological Dig (box) | |
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| How Do We Approach Art? The Methodologies of Art Formalism Iconography and Iconology Marxism Feminism Biography and Autobiography Semiology Deconstruction Psychoanalysis | |
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| How Do We Talk about Art? | |
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| Composition Plane Balance Line Expressive Qualities of Line Shape Expressive Qualities of Shape Light and Color Expressive Qualities of Color Texture Stylistic Terminology | |
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| The Art of Prehistory The Stone Age in Western Europe Upper Paleolithic (c. 50,000/45,000–c. 8000 B.C.) | |
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| Upper Paleolithic Sculpture Carving (box) | |
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| Categories of Sculpture (box) | |
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| Pigment (box) | |
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| Modeling (box) | |
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| Upper Paleolithic Painting in Spain and France (c. 30,000–c. 10,000 B.C.) | |
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| Cosquer and Chauvet Shamanism (box) | |
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| Lascaux Methods of Interpretation: Dating and Meaning of the Cave Paintings (box) | |
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| Window on the World 1: Rock Paintings of Australia (c. 75,000/50,000 B.C.–the Present) | |
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| (feature) Mesolithic (c. 8000–c. 6000/4000 B.C.) | |
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| Neolithic (c. 6000/4000–c. 2000 B.C.) | |
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| Malta Northern Europe The Celts (box) | |
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| Menhirs Dolmens Cromlechs Lost-and-Lintel Construction (box) Timeline | |
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| The Ancient Near East The Neolithic Era Chronology of the Ancient Near East and Principal Sites (box) | |
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| Jericho �atal H�y�k Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Religion (box) The Uruk Period (c. 3500–3100 B.C.) | |
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| Inanna (box) | |
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| Ziggurats Cylinder Seals From Pictures to Words Gilgamesh (box) | |
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| Sumer: Early Dynastic Period (c. 2800–2300 B.C.) | |
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| Tell Asmar Ur Akkad: (c. 2300–2100 B.C.) | |
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| Sargon of Akkad (box) | |
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| Neo-Sumerian Culture (c. 2100–1900/1800 B.C.) | |
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| Lagash The Ziggurat of Ur Babylon (c. 1900�–539 B.C.) | |
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| The Law Code of Hammurabi (box) Anatolia: The Hittites (c . 1450–1200 B.C.) | |
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| Assyria (C. 1300–612 B.C.) | |
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| Assyrian Kings (box) | |
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| The Neo-Babylonian Empire (612–539 B.C.) | |
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| Round Arches (box) | |
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| Glazing (box) | |
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| Iran (c. 5000–331 B.C.) | |
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| The Scythians (8th–4th Century B.C.) | |
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| Destroying the Archaeological Record (box) | |
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| Recent Discoveries: The Filippovka Cemetery (box) | |
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| Achaemenid Persia (539–331 B.C.) | |
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| Columns (box) Timeline | |
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| Ancient Egypt The Gift of the Nile Hymn to Hapy Religion The Pharaohs Egyptian Gods (box) | |
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| The Egyptian Concept of Kingship Chronology of Egyptian Kings (box) | |
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| The Palette of Narmer Royal Names: Serekhs and Cartouches (box) | |
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| The Egyptian View of Death and the Afterlife Mummification Funerary Texts The Old Kingdom Pyramids | |
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| The Egyptian System of Proportion Sculpture Methods of Interpretation: Menkaure and Khamerernebty, an Old Kingdom Pharaoh and His Queen: Formalism, Iconography, Feminism, Context (box) | |
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| Papyrus Manuscripts (box) The Middle Kingdom (c. 1991–1700 B.C.) | |
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| The New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 B.C.) | |
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| Temples The Pylon Temple Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and Sculpture Painting Mural Painting Papyrus The Amarna Period (c. 1349–1336 B.C.) | |
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| Tutankhamon’s Tomb Egypt and Nubia Early Kush Reconquest The "Fifty" Sons of Ramses II: A Recent Archaeological Find (box) | |
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| The Napatan Period Mero� Timeline | |
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| The Aegean Cycladic Civilization (c. 3000–11th Century B.C.) | |
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| Minoan Civilization (c. 3000–c. 1100 B.C.) | |
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| The Palace at Knossos Minoan Fresco (box) | |
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| Minoan Religion Minoan Scripts (box) | |
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| Pottery Recent Discoveries at Thera The Frescoes Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1600–1100 B.C.) | |
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| The Legend of Agamemnon (box) Cyclopaean Masonry (box) | |
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| Timeline PART II | |
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| The Art of Ancient Greece Cultural Identity Government and Philosophy Delphi (box) | |
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| Literature and Drama Women in Ancient Greece (box) | |
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| Plato on Artists (box) | |
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| Socrates: “Know Thyself”(box) | |
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| "Man Is the Measure of All Things" Greek Gods and Roman Counterparts (box) | |
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| Painting and Pottery Geometric Style (c. 1000–700 B.C.) | |
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| Orientalizing Style (c. 700–600 B.C.) | |
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| Medusa (box) | |
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| Archaic Style (c. 600–480 B.C.) | |
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| Greek Vase Media and Shapes Late Archaic to Classical Style (c. 530–400 B.C.) | |
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| Classical to Late Classical Style (c. 450–323 B.C.) | |
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| Mosaic Sculpture Orientalizing Style: The Lions of Delos (7th century B.C.) | |
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| Archaic Style (c. 600��–480 B.C.) | |
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| Early Classical Style (c. 480–450 B.C.) | |
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| The Lost-Wax Process (box) | |
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| Classical Style (c. 450–400 B.C.) | |
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| Polykleitos of Argos The Canon (box) | |
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| Grave Stelae The Development of Greek Architecture and Architectural Sculpture Archaic Style (c. 600–480 B.C.) | |
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| The Orders of Greek Architecture (box) | |
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| Early Classical Style (c. 480–450 B.C.) | |
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| The Labors of Herakles (box) Classical Style (c. 450–400 B.C.) | |
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| The Parthenon (448–432 B.C.) | |
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| Plan of the Parthenon (box) | |
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| The Pediments The Doric Metopes | |
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| The Ionic Frieze The Naos | |
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| The Temple of Athena Nike | |
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| The Erechtheum Late Classical Style (4th century B.C.) | |
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| Greek Theater (box) | |
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| Sculpture Fourth-Century Grave Stelae Hellenistic Sculpture The Trojan Horse (box) | |
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| Summary of Greek Style and Techniques (box) | |
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| Timeline | |
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| The Art of the Etruscans Etruscan Materials (box) | |
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| Architecture Vitruvius on Architecture (box) | |
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| Pottery and Sculpture Women in Etruscan Art Funerary Art Cinerary Containers Tombs Sarcophagi Tomb Paintings Timeline Window on the World 2: China: Neolithic to First Empire (c. 5000–206 b.c.) | |
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| (feature) The Tomb of Emperor Qin: I (late 3rd century B.C.) | |
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| Precursors: Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 5000–221 B.C.) | |
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| Major Periods of Early Chinese History (box) | |
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| Bronze: The Piece-Mold Method (box) | |
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| Writing: Chinese Characters (box) | |
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| Chinese Philosophy (box) | |
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| The Tomb of Emperor Qin: II (late 3rd century B.C.) Timeline | |
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| Ancient Rome Virgil’s Aeneid (box) | |
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| Chronology of Roman Periods and Corresponding Works of Art and Architecture (box) | |
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| Ovid (box) | |
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| Architectural Types Domestic Architecture Roman Building Materials (box) | |
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| Arches, Domes, and Vaults (box) | |
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| Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger (box) | |
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| Nero’s Golden House (box) | |
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| Public Buildings The Forum | |
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| The Basilica The Markets of Trajan Public Baths The Co | |