The encyclopedia of art
Subtitle: painting, sculpture, architecture, and ornament, from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.
By: With a glossary of artists and art terms.
Publisher: Golden Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Art -- History; Art -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.
Other titles: Golden encyclopedia of art.
Notes: Previously published under title: The golden encyclopedia of art.

Gift of anonymous donor.
Table of contents: title: 8
label: INTRODUCTION; title: 10
label: PREHISTORIC AND PRIMITIVE ARTS; title: 15
label: EGYPT; title: 29
label: MESOPOTAMIA; title: 37
label: THE CLASSICAL WORLD: Greece; title: 51
label: THE CLASSICAL WORLD: Rome; title: 63
label: THE EASTERN EMPIRE: Byzantium; title: 70
label: THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE; title: 77
label: INDIA AND INDONESIA; title: 87
label: CHINA; title: 95
label: JAPAN; title: 105
label: PRE-COLUMBIAN ART; title: 108
label: THE MIDDLE AGES; title: 123
label: THE LATE GOTHIC NORTH; title: 130
label: THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: Florence and Rome; title: 160
label: Venice; title: 170
label: THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH; title: 176
label: THE BIRTH OF BAROQUE: Rome; title: 183
label: CATHOLIC BAROQUE: Spain, Flanders, and Versailles; title: 196
label: PROTESTANT BAROQUE: Netherlands, England, and the Colonies; title: 204
label: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Rococo and Neo-Classic; title: 216
label: NINETEENTH CENTURY: Revolution, Romanticism, and the School of Paris; title: 242
label: AMERICA; title: 247
label: TWENTIETH CENTURY: Art Becomes International; title: 264
label: GLOSSARY OF ART TERMS; title: 278
label: GLOSSARY OF ARTISTS; title: 297
label: CHRONOLOGICAL CHARTS OF PERIODS OF ART; title: 300
label: INDEX