Introduction | p. 7 |
The Lamentation | p. 10 |
The rebirth of painting | p. 13 |
The Annunciation | p. 14 |
The Annunciation in art | p. 17 |
The Arnolfini Wedding | p. 18 |
The development of oil painting | p. 21 |
The Birth of Venus | p. 22 |
Venus in art | p. 25 |
Hell | p. 26 |
Images of hell | p. 29 |
Mona Lisa | p. 30 |
The world's most famous painting | p. 33 |
Christ among the Doctors | p. 34 |
A Renaissance master | p. 37 |
The School of Athens | p. 38 |
The Vatican stanze | p. 41 |
The Creation of Adam | p. 42 |
The Michelangelo legend | p. 45 |
Bacchus and Ariadne | p. 46 |
Classical legends | p. 49 |
The Ambassadors | p. 50 |
Portraits and propaganda | p. 53 |
Hunters in the Snow | p. 54 |
The seasons in art | p. 57 |
The Burial of Count Orgaz | p. 58 |
Art and the Counter-Reformation | p. 61 |
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter | p. 62 |
Shocking realism | p. 65 |
The Descent from the Cross | p. 66 |
Baroque splendor | p. 69 |
The Laughing Cavalier | p. 70 |
A new spontaneity | p. 73 |
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I | p. 74 |
Equestrian portraits | p. 77 |
Et in Arcadia Ego | p. 78 |
French classicism | p. 81 |
The Night Watch | p. 82 |
Dutch group portraits | p. 85 |
The Maids of Honor | p. 86 |
Jesters and dwarfs | p. 89 |
Maid Pouring Milk | p. 90 |
Everyday symbols | p. 93 |
A Regatta on the Grand Canal | p. 94 |
Topographical art | p. 97 |
The Marriage Contract | p. 98 |
Moralizing art | p. 101 |
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews | p. 102 |
The conversation piece | p. 105 |
The Swing | p. 106 |
The rococo style | p. 109 |
The Death of Wolfe | p. 110 |
Modernizing history painting | p. 113 |
The Death of Marat | p. 114 |
Neoclassicism and revolution | p. 117 |
The Valpincon Bather | p. 118 |
Orientalism | p. 121 |
The Third of May, 1808 | p. 122 |
Images of war | p. 125 |
The Wanderer above a Sea of Mist | p. 126 |
Landscape and romanticism | p. 129 |
The Raft of the Medusa | p. 130 |
Marine disasters | p. 133 |
The Hay Wain | p. 134 |
A fresh approach to landscape | p. 137 |
Liberty Leading the People | p. 138 |
Romanticism and rebellion | p. 141 |
The Oxbow | p. 142 |
The Hudson River school | p. 145 |
Snowstorm | p. 146 |
The sublime | p. 149 |
The Bathers | p. 150 |
An affront to taste | p. 153 |
The Gleaners | p. 154 |
Peasant life | p. 157 |
Luncheon on the Grass | p. 158 |
Tradition and modernity | p. 161 |
Beata Beatrix | p. 162 |
The Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood | p. 165 |
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull | p. 166 |
Art and medicine | p. 169 |
The Rehearsal | p. 170 |
Snapshots of life | p. 173 |
Nocturne in Black and Gold | p. 174 |
Pushing the boundaries | p. 177 |
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette | p. 178 |
Scenes of contemporary life | p. 181 |
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | p. 182 |
Science and color | p. 185 |
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | p. 186 |
The American abroad | p. 189 |
Mont Sainte-Victoire | p. 190 |
Postimpressionist landscapes | p. 193 |
Sunflowers | p. 194 |
Insanity and creativity | p. 197 |
The Scream | p. 198 |
Expressionism | p. 201 |
Where Do We Come From? | p. 202 |
Primitivism | p. 205 |
The Water Lily Pond | p. 206 |
Monet's Garden at Giverny | p. 209 |
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | p. 210 |
The birth of cubism | p. 213 |
The Kiss | p. 214 |
Sezession: art and decoration | p. 217 |
Dance | p. 218 |
Images of dance | p. 221 |
Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue | p. 222 |
The birth of abstraction | p. 225 |
The Treachery of Images | p. 226 |
Image and reality | p. 229 |
The Persistence of Memory | p. 230 |
Mind games | p. 233 |
Ram's Head with Hollyhock | p. 234 |
The regionalists | p. 237 |
Nighthawks | p. 238 |
Chronicles of urban life | p. 241 |
Autumn Rhythm | p. 242 |
Abstract expressionism | p. 245 |
Two Hundred Campbell's Soup Cans | p. 246 |
Pop art | p. 249 |
Further Reading and Websites | p. 250 |
Index | p. 252 |
Picture credits | p. 256 |
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