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As fascinating as a real visit to the world's famous museums and architectural sites, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, International Edition gives you a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions plus all the study tools you need to excel in your art history course! Easy to read and understand, this 13th Edition of the most widely read history of art book in the English language is the only textbook that includes a unique "scale" feature (accompanying the book's photographs of paintings and other artworks) that will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Two levels of review including extended image captions and "The Big Picture" overviews at the end of every chapter will help you study for your exams.
List of contents
Introduction: What Is Art History?1. Art before History.2. The Ancient Near East.3. Egypt under the Pharaohs.4. The Prehistoric Aegean.5. Ancient Greece.6. The Etruscans.7. The Roman Empire.8. Late Antiquity.9. Byzantium.10. The Islamic World.11. Early Medieval Europe.12. Romanesque Europe.13. Gothic Europe.14. Italy, 1200 to 1400.
About the author
Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Teaching Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART (Cengage) and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Summary
A book from Cengage Learning on "Gardner's Art through the Ages".
