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Art History
'The Boundless Art History textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that provides an overview of the culturally rich subject of Art History from pre-history through to modern global art.
- Author
- Boundless
- Publisher
- LibreTexts
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 195 sections
- 01: Thinking and Talking About Art
- 1.01: What is Art
- 1.02: Visual Elements
- 1.03: Content
- 1.04: Art in Society
- 1.05: Historical Context
- 02: Prehistoric Art
- 2.01: The Stone Age
- 2.02: The Paleolithic Period
- 2.03: The Mesolithic Period
- 2.04: The Neolithic Period
- 2.05: The Bronze Age
- 03: Art of the Ancient Near East
- 3.01: Mesopotamia
- 3.02: Assyria
- 3.03: Neo-Babylonia
- 3.04: Persia
- 04: Ancient Egyptian Art
- 4.01: Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Art
- 4.02: The Early Dynastic Period
- 4.03: The Old Kingdom
- 4.04: The Middle Kingdom
- 4.05: The New Kingdom
- 4.06: Late Egyptian Art
- 05: Art of the Aegean Civilizations
- 5.01: The Aegean Bronze Age
- 5.02: Minoan Art
- 5.03: Mycenaean Art
- 06: Ancient Greece
- 6.01: Introduction to Ancient Greece
- 6.02: The Geometric Period
- 6.03: The Orientalizing Period
- 6.04: The Archaic Period
- 6.05: The Early Classical Period
- 6.06: The High Classical Period
- 6.07: The Hellenistic Period
- 07: The Etruscans
- 7.01: Early Etruscan Art
- 7.02: Later Etruscan Art
- 08: The Romans
- 8.01: The Romans
- 8.02: The Republic
- 8.03: The Early Empire
- 8.04: The Nervan-Antonines
- 8.05: The Decline of the Roman Empire
- 8.06: Early Jewish and Christian Art
- 09: The Byzantines
- 9.01: Early Byzantine Art
- 9.02: Middle Byzantine Art
- 9.03: Late Byzantine Art
- 10: Islamic Art
- 10.01: Introduction to Islamic Art
- 11: Art of South and Southeast Asia Before 1200 CE
- 11.01: Early Indus Valley Civilizations
- 11.02: Buddhist Art
- 11.03: Java and Cambodia
- 11.04: Art of Southeast Asia
- 12: China and Korea After 1279 CE
- 12.01: The Mongols
- 12.02: The Yuan Dynasty
- 12.03: The Ming Dynasty
- 12.04: The Qing Dynasty
- 12.05: Modern Chinese Painting
- 12.06: Korea- The Joseon Dynasty
- 12.07: Modern Korean Art
- 13: Japan Before 1333 CE
- 13.01: Prehistoric Japan
- 13.02: Buddhist Art in Japan
- 13.03: The Heian Period
- 13.04: The Kamakura Period
- 14: Native-American Art Before 1300 CE
- 14.01: The New World
- 14.02: Mesoamerica
- 14.03: South America
- 14.04: North America
- 15: Africa Before 1800 CE
- 15.01: Ancient Africa
- 15.02: Sculpture of the Sub-Saharan Civilizations
- 15.03: Architecture of the Sub-Saharan Civilizations
- 16: Early Medieval Europe
- 16.01: The Early Middle Ages
- 16.02: The Vikings
- 16.03: The Carolingians
- 16.04: The Ottonians
- 17: Romanesque Art
- 17.01: The Romanesque Period
- 17.02: Romanesque Architecture
- 17.03: Romanesque Sculpture
- 17.04: Other Romanesque Arts
- 17.05: Normandy and England
- 18: Gothic Art
- 18.01: Introduction to Gothic Art
- 18.02: Gothic Architecture
- 18.03: Gothic Sculpture
- 18.04: Gothic Painting
- 18.05: Gothic Metalwork
- 18.06: Italy in the Gothic Period
- 19: The Italian Renaissance
- 19.01: The Italian Renaissance
- 19.02: Renaissance Architecture
- 19.03: Renaissance Sculpture
- 19.04: Renaissance Painting
- 19.05: The High Renaissance
- 19.06: Mannerism
- 20: The Northern Renaissance
- 20.01: The Northern Renaissance
- 20.02: Painting in the Northern Renaissance
- 20.03: Books of the Northern Renaissance
- 20.04: Architecture of the Northern Renaissance
- 20.05: Sculpture of the Northern Renaissance
- 20.06: Textiles of the Northern Renaissance
- 21: The Baroque Period
- 21.01: The Baroque Period
- 21.02: Architecture of the Baroque Period
- 21.03: Sculpture of the Baroque Period
- 21.04: Painting of the Baroque Period
- 21.05: The Dutch Painters
- 22: South and Southeast Asia After 1200 CE
- 22.01: India
- 22.02: Jain Art
- 22.03: Hindu Art
- 22.04: Sultanate of Delhi
- 22.05: Vijayanagar Empire
- 22.06: The Nayak Dynasty
- 22.07: The Mughal Period
- 22.08: India under British Imperialism
- 22.09: Contemporary Indian Art
- 22.10: Thai Art
- 22.11: Burmese Art
- 22.12: Vietnamese Art
- 22.13: Indonesian Art
- 23: Chinese and Korean Art Before 1279 CE
- 23.01: The Middle Kingdom
- 23.02: The Neolithic Age
- 23.03: The Bronze Age
- 23.04: The Qin Dynasty
- 23.05: The Han Dynasty
- 23.06: The Six Dynasties Period
- 23.07: The Tang Dynasty
- 23.08: The Song Dynasty
- 23.09: Korea
- 24: Japan After 1333 CE
- 24.01: The Muromachi Period
- 24.02: The Momoyama Period
- 24.03: The Edo Period
- 24.04: The Modern Period
- 25: The Americas After 1300 CE
- 25.01: Mesoamerica
- 25.02: The Aztecs
- 25.03: The Incas
- 25.04: North America
- 26: Oceania
- 26.01: The Rise of Pacific Cultures
- 26.02: Australia
- 26.03: Wood Carving in Oceania
- 26.04: Polynesia
- 26.05: Art of New Zealand
- 26.06: Hawaiian Art
- 26.07: Modern Oceanic Art
- 27: Africa in the Modern Period
- 27.01: Religious Art in Africa
- 27.02: African Clothmaking
- 27.03: Other African Art
- 27.04: Contemporary Art
- 28: European and American Art in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- 28.01: The Enlightenment
- 28.02: Rococo
- 28.03: Neoclassicism
- 28.04: Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- 28.05: The Gothic Revival
- 28.06: The Empire Style
- 28.07: Academic Art
- 28.08: Realism
- 28.09: Impressionism
- 28.10: The Rise of Modernism
- 28.11: The Beginning of Modern Architecture
- 28.12: Photography
- 29: Europe and America from 1900-1950 CE
- 29.01: European Art in the Early 20th Century
- 29.02: Europe from 1920-1945 CE
- 29.03: Modernism in America
- 29.04: Art in the US during the 1920s and 1930s
- 29.05: Modern Architecture
- 29.06: Canadian Painting
- 29.07: The Mexican Renaissance
- 29.08: Art in Brazil
- 29.09: Cuban Art
- 29.10: Abstract Expressionism
- 30: Global Art Since 1950 CE
- 30.01: The World Since 1950 CE
- 30.02: The Art World Grows
- 30.03: Dematerialization
- 30.04: Modern Architecture
- 30.05: Postmodernism
- 30.06: New Media for Art