History of Art - FROM PREHISTORIC TO ROMANESQUE

Dictionary of Art and Artists

FROM PREHISTORIC TO ROMANESQUE

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INTRODUCTION: ART THROUGH THE AGES

Prehistoric Art

DECORATED VASE	TOPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSITIONS	European Cave and Rock Art
A SENSE OF CONTINUITY	ANIMAL IMAGES	The Motifs of Rock Art
HANDPRINTS	ABSTRACT SYMBOLS	Portable Art

The Art of the Ancient Kingdoms

Egyptian Art	The Pyramids	DAILY LIFE IN EGYPTIAN TOMB ART
Painting and Sculpture	IMHOTER	THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
THE THEBAN TOMBS	The Golden Age	ТHE AGE OF AMENHOTEP IV-AKHENATEN
TUTANKHAMUN	SUMER	THE UR STANDARD
THE ROYAL CEMETERY OFUR	THE PALACE OF MARI	Neo-Sumerian Period
Babylonia and Assyria	THE PALACE OF ASHURBANIPA	THE GATE OF ISHTAR
Syrian and Palestinian Art	EBLA	IVORY
Persian Art	SUSA	Anatolian Art
"PRIAM'S TREASURE"

The Art of the Ancient East

Ancient Aegean Art

The Art of the Greeks

BUILDING INNOVATIONS	The Geometric Period	DAEDALUS: THE LEGENDARY SCULPTOR
SHADOW PAINTING	THE CHIGI VASE	Orientalizing Period
THE FRANCOIS VASE	Archaic Period	ARISTODIKOS MASTER: "KOUROS" AND "KORE"
ATHENS: THE CITY OF IMAGES	THE SIPHNIAN TREASURY	ARISTION AND THE SCHOOL OF PAROS
THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS	The First Realism	The Severe Style
Myron	Polygnotos	VOYAGETO ETERNITY
ANONYMOUS MASTER: "SYMPOSIUM SCENE"	The Art of Athens	PHIDIAS
BEAUTY	THE SMITING GOD	Polycleitos' Canon
POLYCLEITOS	The Rise of Individualism	THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF EUPHRANOR
ZEUXIS THE PAINTER	MAUSOLEUM	SKOPAS OF PAROS
THE PERFECT BALANCE	Philosophy in Art	THE STAG HUNT
APELLES COURT ARTIST	ANONYMOUS MASTER: "THE LION HUNT "	PRAXITELES AT THEBES
PRAXITELES	THE BRONZES OF LYSIPPOS	APOLLODOROS
FROM LYSIPPOSTO MICHELANGELO	LYSIPPOS AFTER ALEXANDER	The Arrival of Hellenism
ANCIENT JEWELLERY	THE TRUE FACE OF ALEXANDER	Hellenistic Baroque
THEATRICAL SCENES	BAROQUE ANCIENT AND MODERN	THE FARNESE TAZZA
PERGAMUM AND THE ACROPOLIS	Roman Restoration	Laocoon
THE OASIS PAINTER	Venus de Milo	PORTRAITS OF THE CYNICS

Italic Art

THE DAUNIAN DYNASTIES	The Italics	THE CAUDINE FORKS
DAUGHTERS OF LAVINIA	"SITULAE": AN EARLY EUROPEAN ART FORM	The Etruscans
BEYOND THE GRAVE	THE CHIMAERA	THE HUMAN CONDITION
ANONYMOUS MASTER "DANCING COUPLE"	THE ETRUSCAN HOUSE	Rome - from Monarchy to Republic
THE AMAZONS	ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE	TEMPLES
GREEK SCULPTORS AND ROMAN CLIENTS	The Late Republic	PASITELES
ROME'S GARDEN-VILLAS	POMPEY	ALEXANDRIAN MASTER "NILE LANDSCAPE"

Art of the Roman Empire

An Empire of Symbols	AUGUSTUS	THE HOUSE OF AUGUSTUS
THE ARA PACIS	Classicism	PUBLIC BATHS
Alexander and Augustus	Public Art	ANTONIA
THE TOMBS OF THE FREEDMEN	TITUS FLAVIUS VESPANIUS	Public Building
The Gaze of Rome	The Julio-Claudian Dynasty	"DOMUS AUREA"
HIPPOLYTUS	The Flavian Dynasty	ANTINOUS
Trajan	TRAJAN'S COLUMN	ANONYMOUS MASTER: "MAN AND WOMAN"
Hadrian	LETTER TO THE EMPEROR	THE ANTONINE COLUMN
Marcus Aurelius	ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINA	COMMODUS
THE ROMAN HERCULES	Caracallaand the Last of the Severans	Septimius Severus
SOLDIER AND FARMER	GORDIAN	THE LUDOVISI BATTLE
Gallienus	AURELIAN	Diocletian
Maxentius and Constantine	THE TETRARCHS	LOVE AND DEATH
THE LEGACY OF ROMAN ART	The Christian Empire

The Early Christians and their Art

MITHRAS	The Christians in the Roman Empire	EARLY CHRISTIAN FINDINGS
THE CATACOMBS	THE SARCOPHAGUS OF JUNIUS BASSUS	POPULAR ART OF THE CATACOMB
THE JEWS OF ROME

Barbarian Art

The Celts	CLASSICAL AND BARBARIAN IMPULSES	The Art of the Steppes
BOETHIUS IMPRISONED	OSTROGOTHIC ARCHITECTURE	The Goths
The Franks	ANGLO-SAXON AND HIBERNO-SAXON ART	MONASTERIES
The Lombards	THE VIKINGS

Byzantine Art

ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE	TORCELLO	COPTIC ART
Features of Byzantine Art	Basilica of San Vitale	ANONYMOUS MASTER: "JESUS OF NAZARETH"
Italian Byzantine Art	ANONYMOUS: "THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL"	THE TREASURY OF ST MARK'S
Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe	Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo	Greek Art
Hagia Sophia	Slav Art	Russian architecture
Saint Sophia Cathedral	RUSSIAN ICONS

COLLECTION: Russian Architecture and Russian Icons

From Carolingian to Romanesque Art

Carolingian Art	FRESCO CYCLES	WESTWORKS
THE FRESCOS OF MUSTAIR	THE MOSAICS OF SANTA PRASSEDE	Ottoman Art
A BRIEF PENITENTIAL JOURNEY	ANONYMOUS: "ANNUNCIATION"	Romanesque Art
THE COSMIC ORDER	OTTOMAN CHURCH DESIGN	WILIGELMOAND BENEDETTO ANTEIAMI
FRENCH ROMANESQUE FRESCOS

Persian and Islamic Art

THE PALACE OF ARDASHIR AT FIRUZABAD	Arsacid Persia	THE IMPORTANCE OF ROCK CARVINGS
Sassanid Persia	SASSANID SILVERWARE	SASSANID TEXTILES
MOSAIC DECORATION	Imperial Islamic Art	THE KORAN AND THE ART OF WRITING
DESERT CASTLES	Abbasid Art	MOSQUES, BATHS, AND PALACES
Persian and Seljuk Islam	ROCK CRYSTAL	METALLIC LUSTREWARE
Western Islam

The Indian Region and the Far East

Indian Art from the Mauryato the Gupta	KUSHAN SCULPTURE	THE ORIGINS OF THE INDIAN TEMPLE
ANONYMOUS: "COURT LIFE SCENE"	Sinhalese art	HINDU AND BUDDHIST IMAGERY
THE PAINTINGS OF AJANTA AND SIGIRIYA	Burmese, Khmer, and Champa Art	The Art of Java
PAGAN AND ANGKOR	The Golden Age of Chinese Art	ANCIENT CHINESE ARCHITECTURE
CHINESE SCULPTURE	YAN LIBEN: "PORTRAIT OF AN EMPEROR"	PORCELAIN
The Koryo Art of Korea	THE PAINTING OF THE THREE KINGDOMS	Japanese art
THE BIRTH OF A NATIONAL STYLE

Classical Art of sub-Saharan Africa

The Ancient Civilizations of West Africa	Sao Pottery	THE "LOST-WAX" CASTING TECHNIQUE
Cultures of the Lower Niger Basin	Nok Art	Ife Art
THE BRONZES OF IGBO-UKWU	SEATED FIGURE	The Kingdom of Benin
Court Art	THE OWO STYLE	THE IVORIES OF BENIN AND THE KONGO
Cultures of the Inner Niger Delta	Afro-Portuguese Ivories	STONE FIGURES FROM THE VILLAGE OF ESIE

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