The History of Western Art

ISBN-13: 9780500296653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str.

Janetta Rebold Benton

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.