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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 | |