'As well as providing perceptive comments on key individual works of art and architecture, Janetta Rebold Benton gives us a very precise understanding of their historical contexts' - Richard Cork
Introduction
Part One Prehistoric through ancient Roman art Chapter 1. Antecedents of the Western Tradition: Prehistoric, Mesopotamian and Egyptian art Chapter 2. Aegean and Greek art Chapter 3. Etruscan and Roman art
Part Two Early Christian through medieval art Chapter 4. Early Christian and Byzantine art Chapter 5. Early Medieval and Romanesque art Chapter 6. Gothic art
Part Three Renaissance through Neoclassical art Chapter 7. Renaissance and Mannerist art Chapter 8. 17th-century Baroque art Chapter 9. 18th-century Rococo and Neoclassical art
Part Four Romanticism to today Chapter 10. Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Chapter 11. Earlier 20th-century art Chapter 12. Later 20th- & early 21st-century art
Janetta Rebold Benton is the Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University, New York, and the author of several books and articles on art including How to Understand Art in the Art Essentials series (Thames & Hudson, 2021). She is the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar Awards as Visiting Professor (China 2018; Russia 2012), and lectures at the Smithsonian Institution, 92nd Street Y, and previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.