Art History Handbook

Art History Reference Handbook

The Handbook of Art History learn a means by which we can understand our human past and its relationship to our present, because the act of making art is one of humanity’s most ubiquitous activities. Art History leads to a number of professions in the field such as education, museum and art gallery work, work in cultural heritage or the art market, while architectural historians can find opportunities in heritage, preservation and policy.

Table of Content

1. Thinking and Talking About Art

2. Prehistoric Art

3. Art of the Ancient Near East

4. Ancient Egyptian Art

5. Art of the Aegean Civilizations

6. Ancient Greece

7. The Etruscans

8. The Romans

9. The Byzantines

10. Islamic Art

11. Art of South and Southeast Asia Before 1200 CE

12. Chinese and Korean Art Before 1279 CE

13. Japan Before 1333 CE

14. Native-American Art Before 1300 CE

15. Africa Before 1800 CE

16. Early Medieval Europe

17. Romanesque Art

18. Gothic Art

19. The Italian Renaissance

20. The Northern Renaissance

21. The Baroque Period

22. South and SoutheastAsia After 1200 CE

23. China and Korea After 1279 CE

24. Japan After 1333 CE

25. The Americas After 1300 CE

26. Oceania

27. Africa in the Modern Period

28. European and American Art in the 18th and 19th Centuries

29. Europe and America from 1900-1950 CE

30. Global Art Since 1950 CE

As an art historian you will learn about this rich and fundamental strand of human culture. You will learn to talk and write about works of art from different periods and places, in the same way that other students learn to write about literature or history.

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