History of Painting

Introduction Page
1. Painting Principles and Techniques
   1. Painting and the Popular Mind
   2. Realism in Painting
   3. Aerial and Linear Perspective
   4. Depth Perception
   5. Nonrepresentational Painting
2. Painting before 1300
   1. Prehistoric Painting
   2. Egyptian Painting
   3. Aegean Frescoes
   4. Greek and Roman Painting
   5. Early Medieval Painting
3. Painting of the Late Middle Ages
   1. Late Medieval Painting in Italy
   2. Giotto's Directness of Vision
   3. The International Gothic Style
   4. The Van Eycks
   5. Rogier van der Weyden
4. Renaissance Painting in Italy
   1. Masaccio: The Birth of Perspective
   2. The Early Renaissance in Florence
   3. Leonardo da Vinci
   4. Michelangelo
   5. Raphael
   6. The High Renaissance in Venice
5. The Northern Renaissance
   1. Albrecht Dürer and the Graphic Process
   2. Pain, Pleasure, Heaven & Hell: Grünewald & Bosch
   3. Northern Renaissance Symbolism
   4. Northern Portraits and Landscapes
   5. Vanity and the Evolution of the Still Life
6. Two Hundred Years of the Baroque
   1. Mannerism and Eclecticism in Italian Art
   2. The Early Baroque in Italy and Spain
   3. Rubens and His Debt to Italy
   4. Rembrandt van Rijn
   5. The Classical Point of View
   6. Heroic Landscapes
   7. The Popularity of Genre Art
7. The Age of Rococo: Art in 18th-Century Europe
   1. The Academic Point of View
   2. The Birth of Rococo
   3. Chardin: Painter of the Bourgeoisie
   4. Reynolds and Gainsborough: English Decorative Portraiture
   5. Morality in the Age of Reason
8. The Seeds of Modernity: 19th-Century Europe
   1. Neoclassicism
   2. Romanticism
   3. Realism
   4. Impressionism
   5. Post-Impressionism
9. A New Way of Seeing -- 20th-Century Painting
   1. Abstraction
   2. Expressionism
   3. The Armory Show of 1913
   4. Dada and Surrealism
   5. "Los Tres Grandes" -- The Great Mexican Muralists
10. Beyond the West
    1. Islamic Art
    2. The Art of India
    3. The Art of Tibet
    4. The Art of China
    5. The Art of Japan
11. The Business of Art
    1. Buying and Selling Art
    2. Art Critics
    3. Museums and Collecting
    4. Conservation
    5. Faking It