The Story of Art

Introduction : on art and artists
Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples ; ancient America
Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century B.C.
The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century B.C. to first century A.D.
World conquerors : Romans, Bhuddhists, Jews, and Christians, first to fourth century A.D.
A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century
Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century
Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century
The church militant : the twelfth century
The church triumphant : the thirteenth century
Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century
The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century
Tradition and innovation : the later fifteenth century in Italy
Tradition and innovation : the fifteenth century in the North
Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century
Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy in the early sixteenth century
The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands in the early sixteenth century
A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century
Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century
The mirror of nature : Holland in the seventeenth century
Power and glory : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Power and glory : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century
The break in tradition : England, America, and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Revolution in permanence : the nineteenth century
In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century
Experimental art : the twentieth century.