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Introduction to Art History I

This textbook, designed specifically for C-ID ARTH 110 and produced by a team of art historians working within the CCC system, curates scholarly resources into a coherent textbook with chapter introductions, a comprehensive glossary, and explanatory editors’ notes. Throughout, it acknowledges and explores the historiography of art history and brings in global connections to provide a broader, more diverse, and more inclusive survey of art history from the Paleolithic through Gothic periods.

Art Humanities

Author: Cerise Myers, Ellen C. Caldwell, Alice J. Taylor, Margaret Phelps & Lisa Soccio
Publisher: LibreTexts
Source: LibreTexts
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Language: EN

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Contents· 97 sections

01: Textbook Introduction
1.00: Welcome
1.01: Using This Textbook
1.02: Information for Instructors
02: Introduction to Art History and Art Historical Analysis
2.00: Chapter Introduction
2.01: What is art history and where is it going
2.02: Art History and World Art History
2.03: Introduction to art historical analysis
03: The Visual Elements and Principles of Composition
3.00: Chapter Introduction
3.01: The Visual Elements
3.02: Principles of Composition
04: Art of the Ancient Americas
4.00: Chapter Introduction
4.01: North America (Mississippi Ancient Fort Ancestral Puebloan)
4.02: Mesoamerica (Olmec Teotihuacan Maya)
4.03: South America (Nasca Paracas Moche)
05: Art of the Stone Age
5.00: Chapter Introduction
5.01: Paleolithic Art
5.02: Mesolithic Art
5.03: Neolithic Art
06: The Ancient Near East
6.00: Chapter Introduction
6.01: Sumerian
6.02: Akkadian
6.03: Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian
6.04: Assyria
6.05: Persia
07: Ancient Egypt
7.00: Chapter Introduction
7.01: Ancient Egypt (Introduction)
7.02: Pre-Dynastic and Early Dynastic Periods
7.03: Old Kingdom
7.04: Middle Kingdom
7.05: New Kingdom
7.06: Amarna
7.07: New Kingdom resumed
7.08: Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush
08: The Ancient Aegean
8.00: Chapter Introduction
8.01: Cycladic
8.02: Minoan
8.03: Mycenaean
09: Ancient Greece
9.00: Chapter Introduction
9.01: Introduction- The Ancient Greeks and Their Gods
9.02: Geometric Proto-Archaic and Archaic
9.03: Early Classical
9.04: High Classical
9.05: Late Classical and Hellenistic
10: The Etruscans
10.00: Chapter Introduction
10.01: Early Etruscans
10.02: Later Etruscans
11: The Roman Empire
11.00: Chapter Introduction
11.01: Introduction
11.02: Republic
11.03: Early Empire
11.04: High Middle Empire
11.05: Late Empire
12: Late Antiquity
12.00: Chapter Introduction
12.01: Late Antiquity and the Dissolution of the Roman Empire
12.02: Christian Art Before Constantine
12.03: Christian Art and Architecture After Constantine
13: Medieval I- Reorganization of the Roman World and the Birth of Islam
13.00: Chapter Introduction
13.01: Early Byzantium
13.02: The Migration Period
13.03: The Early Islamic World
13.04: Carolingian Art
14: Medieval II- Contested Empires
14.00: Chapter Introduction
14.01: Medieval Islam Before the Mongols
14.02: The Latin West
14.03: Byzantium from the End of Iconoclasm to the Latin Conquest
15: Medieval III- Reorganization of the East
15.00: Chapter Introduction
15.01: Ilkhanid
15.02: Timurid
15.03: Mamluk
15.04: Late Byzantine
15.05: Christian East Africa
16: Gothic Europe
16.00: Chapter Introduction
16.01: Introduction
16.02: France
16.03: Holy Roman Empire
16.04: England
16.05: Gothic Jewish Art and Textbook Conclusion
17: Back Matter- Glossary and Index
17.00: Index
17.01: Glossary
17.02: Detailed Licensing