Each of the eight chapters takes a period of up to forty years and examines the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media ...

For forty years, this widely acclaimed classic has remained unsurpassed as an introduction to art in the Western world, boasting the matchless credibility of the Janson name ...

Ancient art - Egyptian art - Greecian art - Romanesque art - Gothic art - Renaissance art - High Renaissance - Art in Venice - Mannerism - Baroque art - Romanticism - Realism ...