Includes bibliographical references (p. 1110-1125) and index

Introduction: Subjects and vocabulary of art history -- Birth of art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age -- Rise of civilization: art of the ancient Near East -- Pharaohs and the afterlife: art of ancient Egypt -- Minos and the heroes of Homer: art of the prehistorica Aegean -- Gods, heroes, and athletes: art of ancient Greece -- Paths of enlightenment: art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200 -- Silk road and beyond: art of early China and Korea -- Shrines, statues, and scrolls: art of early Japan -- Italy before the Romans: art of the Etruscans -- From seven hills to three continents: art of ancient Rome -- Pagans, Christians, and Jews: art of late antiquity -- Rome in the East: art of Byzantium -- In praise of Allah: art of the Islamic world -- From Alaska to the Andes: Native arts of the Americas before 1300 -- South from the Sahara: early African art -- Europe after the fall of Rome: early medieval art in the West -- Age of pilgrimages: Romanesque art -- Age of great cathedrals: gothic art -- Gothic to Renaissance: 14th-century Italian art -- Piety, passion, and politics: 15th-century art in Northern Europe and Spain -- Humanism adn the allure of antiquity: 15-century Italian art -- Beauty, science, and spirit in Italian art: high Renaissance and mannerism -- Age of Reformation: 16th-century art in Northern Europe and Spain -- Popes, peasants, monarchs, and merchants: baroque art -- Sultans, kings, emperors, and colonists: art of South and Southeast Asia after 1200 -- From the Mongols to the modern: art of later China and Korea -- From the Shoguns to the present: art of later Japan -- Enlightenment and its legacy: art of the late 18th through the mid-19th century -- Rise of Modernism: art of the later 19th century -- Before and after the conquistadors: Native arts of the Americas after 1300 -- Flourishing of island cultures: art of Oceania -- Traditionalism and Internationalism: 19th- and 20th- century African arts -- Development of modernist art: early 20th century -- From the modern to the postmodern and beyond: art of the later 20th century -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index..