From the Book - Pocket edition.
Introduction: On arts and artists
Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America
Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC
The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD
World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD
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 I : the later fifteenth century in Italy
Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North
Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century
Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century
The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, 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, seventeenth century
Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Power and glory II : 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
Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century
In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century
Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century
A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past.
