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| Introduction: On Art and Artists | |
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| Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America | |
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| Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete | |
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| The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC | |
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| The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD | |
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| World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD | |
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| A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century | |
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| Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century | |
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| Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century | |
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| The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century | |
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| The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century | |
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| Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century | |
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| The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century | |
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| Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy | |
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| Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North | |
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| Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century | |
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| Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century | |
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| The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century | |
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| A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century | |
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| Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century | |
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| Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century | |
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| In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century | |
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| A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism | |
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| Another Turning of the Tide | |
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| The Changing Past | |
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| A Note on Art Books | |
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| Chronological Charts | |
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| Maps | |
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| List of Illustrations by Location | |
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| Index and Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |