| Introduction: How to Look at a Painting | |
| The Birth of Art: Prehistoric through Medieval | p. 2 |
| Prehistoric Art: The Beginning | p. 4 |
| Mesopotamia: The Architects | p. 6 |
| Egypt: The Art of Immortality | p. 8 |
| Greece: They Invented a Lot More Than the Olympics | p. 12 |
| Rome: The Organizers | p. 16 |
| Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas: New World Art When It Was Still An Old World | p. 20 |
| African Art: The First Cubists | p. 22 |
| The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion | p. 24 |
| Golden Age of Byzantine Art | p. 24 |
| Romanesque Art: Stories in Stone | p. 26 |
| Gothic Art: Height and Light | p. 28 |
| The Rebirth of Art: Renaissance and Baroque | p. 30 |
| The Renaissance: The Beginning of Modern Painting | p. 32 |
| The Italian Renaissance | p. 34 |
| The Northern Renaissance | p. 40 |
| The Renaissance in the Low Countries | p. 40 |
| The German Renaissance | p. 42 |
| Mannerism and the Late Renaissance | p. 44 |
| The Spanish Renaissance | p. 45 |
| Baroque: The Ornate Age | p. 46 |
| Italian Baroque | p. 47 |
| Flemish Baroque | p. 50 |
| Dutch Baroque | p. 52 |
| English Baroque | p. 57 |
| Spanish Baroque | p. 60 |
| French Baroque | p. 62 |
| Rococo | p. 64 |
| The Nineteenth Century: Birth of the "ISMS" | p. 66 |
| Neoclassicism: Roman Fever | p. 68 |
| French Neoclassicism | p. 69 |
| American Neoclassicism | p. 72 |
| Goya: Man without An "ISM" | p. 74 |
| Romanticism: The Power of Passion | p. 76 |
| French Romanticism | p. 76 |
| English Romanticism | p. 79 |
| American Romanticism and Genre Painting | p. 81 |
| Realism | p. 83 |
| French Realism | p. 84 |
| American Realism | p. 85 |
| Architecture for the Industrial Age | p. 89 |
| Art Nouveau | p. 91 |
| Birth of Photography | p. 92 |
| Impressionism: Let There Be Color and Light | p. 96 |
| Rodin: First Modern Sculptor | p. 110 |
| Post-Impressionism | p. 112 |
| Early Expressionism | p. 123 |
| Symbolism | p. 124 |
| The Birth of Modern Architecture | p. 126 |
| The Twentieth Century: Modern Art | p. 128 |
| Fauvism: Exploding Color | p. 130 |
| Twentieth-Century Sculpture: A New Look | p. 133 |
| Twin Titans of the Twentieth Century: Matisse and Picasso | p. 134 |
| Cubism | p. 138 |
| Modernism Outside of France | p. 139 |
| Futurism | p. 139 |
| Constructivism | p. 140 |
| Precisionism | p. 141 |
| Expressionism | p. 142 |
| Mondrian: Harmony of Opposites | p. 145 |
| Modernist Architecture: Geometry to Live in | p. 146 |
| Dada and Surrealism: Art Between the Wars | p. 148 |
| Photography Comes of Age | p. 152 |
| American Art: 1908-40 | p. 154 |
| Abstract Expressionism | p. 158 |
| Figural Expressionism: Not Just a Pretty Face | p. 162 |
| Post-War Sculpture | p. 164 |
| Color Field | p. 166 |
| The Twentieth Century and Beyond: Contemporary Art | p. 168 |
| Hard Edge | p. 170 |
| Pre-Pop Art | p. 172 |
| Pop Art | p. 174 |
| Minimalism: The Cool School | p. 177 |
| Conceptual Art: Invisible Visual Art | p. 178 |
| Contemporary Architecture | p. 180 |
| Photography: What's New | p. 184 |
| Photo-Realism | p. 187 |
| Neo-Expressionism | p. 188 |
| The New Breed: Post-Modern Art | p. 190 |
| Index | p. 195 |
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