Lucie-Smith, Edward <br/><br/>
Art and civilization / 
Edward Lucie-Smith 
 - 560 pages :   illustrations (some color) ;   29 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes glossary and index 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/>	pt. 1. Beginnings : European prehistory ; Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (focus: The tomb of Tutankhamun) --<br/>pt. 2. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, & Byzantium : Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome (focus: The Laocoon) ; Judaism and Christianity ; Byzantium --<br/>pt. 3. The Middle Ages : The early Middle Ages (focus: An Anglo-Saxon chieftain's regalia ; The Emperor Charlemagne ; Monastic life : life at Cluny) ; The late Middle Ages (focus: The Black Death) ; Transition to the modern world : Northern Europe --<br/>pt. 4. The Renaissance : Humanism in Italy (focus: The early Medici) ; The Italian High Renaissance ; The Reformation ; Mannerism (focus: The royal icon) --<br/>pt. 5. The Baroque : The Baroque in Italy ; Spain and Flanders (focus: The conquest of Mexico) ; French classicism (focus: Louis XIV and absolutism) ; Protestant Baroque (focus: Rembrandt's self-portraits). pt. 6. The eighteenth century : The rococo (focus: Madame de Pompadour) ; The middle class ; The Enlightenment (focus: Catherine the Great) ; The cult of nature and the cult of feeling --<br/>pt. 7. Romanticism & the nineteenth century : The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (focus: The British in India) ; Romanticism (focus: The legend of Paganini) ; Realism ; Symbolism (focus: The arts and crafts movement) --<br/>pt. 8. The modern age : The birth of modernism (focus: African art and cubism) ; Armageddon and the interwar culture in Europe ; The rise of America (focus: The cinema) ; Europe 1940-70 ; 1970-90 (focus: The new Russian avant-garde). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0810919249  9780810919242 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>25964295 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts  --History. <br/>Civilization, Western. <br/>Arts.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>700.9