Art that changed the world
By: chief consultant, Ian Chilvers ; contributors, Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton, Caroline Bugler, Lorrie Mack
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: DK
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781465414359
Subjects: Art and society; Art and literature; Art; Art movements; Painting; History
Description: Using a visual timeline, tells the story of every major art style, movement by movement, by defining each artistic style and putting seminal works of genius in their historical context.
Notes: Subtitle on cover: Transformative art movements and the paintings that inspired them.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ancient and medieval. Prehistoric art ; Egyptian art ; Greek and Roman art ; Early Christian and Byzantine ; The Dark Ages ; Romanesque and Gothic; title: Renaissance and mannerism. Birth of the Renaissance ; Flowering of the Renaissance ; High Renaissance ; Venetian Renaissance ; Northern Renaissance ; Italian mannerism ; Mannerism outside Italy; title: Baroque to neoclassicism. Italian Baroque ; Flemish and Spanish Baroque ; Dutch Baroque ; French Baroque ; French rococo ; Rococo outside France ; Neoclassicism; title: The 19th century. Romanticism ; Romantic landscape ; Pre-Raphaelites ; Realism ; Impressionism ; Post-impressionism ; Symbolism; title: The modern age. Expressionism ; Cubism ; Birth of abstract art ; Dada and surrealism ; Abstract expressionism ; Pop and op art ; Recent abstraction ; The figurative tradition.