Janson's Basic History of Western Art Plus New MyArtsLab with Etext -- Access Card Package

Penelope J. E. Davies is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a scholar of Greek and Roman art and architecture as well as a field archaeologist. She is author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, winner of the Vasari Award. Walter B. Denny is a Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to exhibition catalogues, his publications include books on Ottoman Turkish carpets, textiles, and ceramics, and articles on miniature painting, architecture and architectural decoration. Frima Fox Hofrichter is Professor and former Chair of the History of Art and Design department at Pratt Institute. She is author of Judith Leyster, A Dutch Artist in Holland's Golden Age, which received CAA's Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award. Joseph Jacobs is an independent scholar, critic, and art historian of modern art in New York City. He was the curator of modern art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, director of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, and curator of American art at The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. David L. Simon is Jette Professor of Art at Colby College, where he received the Basset Teaching Award in 2005. Among his publications is the catalogue of Spanish and southern French Romanesque sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters. Ann M. Roberts, Professor of Art at Lake Forest College has published essays, articles and reviews on both Northern and Italian Renaissance topics. Her research focuses on women in the Renaissance, and her most recent publication is entitled Dominican Women and Renaissance Art:The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa. H. W. Janson was a legendary name in art history. During his long career as a teacher and scholar, he helped define the discipline through his impressive books and other publications. Anthony F. Janson forged a distinguished career as a professor, scholar, museum professional and writer. From the time of his father's death in 1982 until 2004, he authored History of Art.

In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art Chapter 3. Egyptian Art Chapter 4. Aegean Art Chapter 5. Greek Art Chapter 6. Etruscan Art Chapter 7. Roman Art PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Chapter 9. Islamic Art Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art Chapter 11. Romanesque Art Chapter 12. Gothic Art PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520 Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England Chapter 22. The Rococo PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789 Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905 Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914 Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980 FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART 1: THE ANCIENT WORLD Chapter 1. Prehistoric Art Paleolithic Art Neolithic Art Chapter 2. Ancient Near Eastern Art Sumerian Art Art of Akkad Neo-Sumerian Revival Babylonian Art Assyrian Art Late Babylonian Art Persian Art Chapter 3. Egyptian Art Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art The Old Kingdom: A Golden Age The Middle Kingdom: Reasserting Tradition The New Kingdom: Restored Glory Akhenaten and the Amarna Style Chapter 4. Aegean Art Early Cycladic Art Minoan Art Mycenaean Art Chapter 5. Greek Art The emergence of Greek Art: The Geometric Style The Orientalizing Style: Horizons Expand Archaic Art: Art of the City-State The Classical Age The Age of Alexander and the Hellenistic Period Chapter 6. Etruscan Art Funerary Art Architecture Sculpture Chapter 7. Roman Art Early Rome and the Republic The Early Empire Art and Architecture in the Provinces Domestic Art And Architecture in the Proviences PART 2: THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 8. Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Jewish Art Early Christian Art Byzantine Art Chapter 9. Islamic Art The formation of Islamic Art The Development of Islamic Style Islamic Art and the Persian Inheritance The Ottoman Empire Chapter 10. Early Medieval Art Anglo-Saxon Art Hiberno-Saxon Art Carolingian Art Ottonian Art Chapter 11. Romanesque Art First Expressions of Romanesque Style Mature Romanesque Regional Variants of the Romanesque Style Chapter 12. Gothic Art Early Gothic Art in France High Gothic Art in France Rayonnant or Court Style Late Gothic Art in France The Spread of Gothic Art PART 3: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO: EARLY MODERN EUROPE Chapter 13. Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy The Cities and the Mendicant New Directions in Tuscan Painting Late Fourteen-Century Crises Chapter 14. Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe Courtly Art: The International Gothic Urban Centers and the New Art Regional Responses to the Early Netherlandish Style Printing and the Graphic Arts Chapter 15. The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy The inspiration of Antiquity in Florence Italian Art During the Era of the Medici, 1434094 The Renaissance Palace and its Furnishings, CA. 1440-90 The Renaissance Style Reverberates, 1450-1500 Chapter 16. The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520 Leonardo and the Florentine High Renaissance The High Renaissance in Rome Venice and the High Rennaissance Chapter 17. The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Late Renaissance Florence Rome Refermed Cities and Courts in Northern Italy and Venice Chapter 18. Renaissance and Reformation throughout Sixteenth-Century Europe France and Spain: Catholic Courts and Italian Influence Central Europe: The Reformation and Art Protestant Courts and Cities and New Forms of Art The Netherlands: World Marketplace Chapter 19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain Painting in Italy Architecture in Italy Sculpture in Italy Painting in Spain Chapter 20. The Baroque in the Netherlands Flanders The Dutch Republic The Market: Landscape, Still Life and Genre Painting Chapter 21. The Baroque in France and England France: The Style of Louis XIV Baroque Architecture in England Chapter 22. The Rococo France: The Rise of the Rococo Western European Rococo outside France The Rococo in Central Europe PART 4: THE MODERN WORLD Chapter 23. Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789 Rome Toward 1760: The Front of Neoclassicism Rome Toward 1960: Romanticism Neoclassicism in Britain Early Romanticism in Britain Neoclassicism in France Italian Neoclassicism Towards 1785 Chapter 24. Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789-1848 Painting Sculpture Romantic Revivals in Architecture Chapter 25. The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848-1885 Realism in France British Realism Realism in America Photography: A Mechanical Medium for Mass-produced Art Architecture and the Industrial Revolution Ferroviteous Structures: Train Sheds and Exhibition Palaces Chapter 26. Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905 Post-Impressionism Symbolism Art Nouveau and the Search for Modern Design American Architecture: The Chicago School Photography Chapter 27. Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914 Fauvism Cubism The Impact of Fauvism and Cubism Modernist Sculpture: Constantin Brancusi American Art Early Modern Architecture in Europe Chapter 28. Art Between the Wars Dada Surrealism Organic Sculpture Creating Utopias Art in America: Modernity, Spirituality, and Regionalism Mexican Art: Seeking National Identity The Eve of World War II Chapter 29. Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980 Existentialism in New York: Abstract Expressionism Rejecting Abstract Expressionism: American Art of the 1950s and1960s Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s The Pluralist 1970s: Post-Minimalism Art with a Social Agenda Late Modernist Architecture Chapter 30. The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980 Architecture Poster-minimalism and Pluralism: Limitless Possibilities