The visual arts: a history

Part I. Foundations of art

1. Before history

2. The early civilization

3. Developments across the continents

The Greeks and their neighbours

Hellenistic and Roman art

Part II. Art and the world religions

6. Buddhism, Hinduism and the arts of South and East Asia

7. Early Christian and Byzantine art

8. Early Islamic art

Part III. Sacred and secular art. 9. Medieval Christendom

10. The fifteenth century in Europe

11. The sixteenth century in Europe

12. The Americas, Africa and Asia

13. The seventeenth century in Europe

14. Enlightenment and liberty

Part IV. The making of the modern world

15. Romanticism to realism

16. Eastern traditions

17. Impressionism to post-impressionism

18. Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania

Part V. Twentieth-century art and beyond

19. Art from 1900 to 1919

20. Between the two world wars

21. Post-war to post-modern

22. Into the third millennium.