Art Through the Ages

Arts & Photography

De LA Croix, Horst

G. Tansey, Richard

Tansey, Richard, G.

Gardner, Helen

History & Criticism

Elsevier Australia

<p>outstanding prints from middle ages art, beautiful</p>

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, II: Renaissance and Modern Art

Study Guide for Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Cohen, Kathleen

Reference

Harcourt College Pub.

<p>This classic art history survey text has sold more than two million copies since it was first published in 1926. The ideal text for the full-year history course, it surveys the entire span of Western art from prehistory to the present and offers overviews of significant areas of non-Western art. Features: * New to this edition: * Increased number of illustrations, more in colour. * Heightened visual appeal and superior accuracy of colour resulting from printing at 175-line screen resolution. * Addition of new maps, timelines, and improved photographic views. * Reorganized, expanded, and revised chapters in Part One reflect significant changes in the field of ancient art over the last decade. (Author Fred S. Kleiner, Classical scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, the official journal of the Archaeological Institute of America). * Inclusion of more art from North American museums facilitates students' viewing of actual works. * Inclusion of many new views of previously illustrated monuments. * Increased attention to social and political context of works of art in the ancient world. * Presentation of more classical works of art created for non-elite patrons. * Reorganized by Early Christian, Islamic, and Byzantine material. * Addition of twenty-eight new line art figures. * Expanded coverage of Chinese art and introduction of Korean art. * Expanded coverage of Mayan ceramics ans stelae, new coverage of Peruvian textiles and Colombian goldwork. * Revision of African art, updated in a separate chapter with twice as many images as the previous edition. * Reorganized chapters covering Northern and Italian Renaissance. * Reorganized coverage of eighteenth-century material. * Increased coverage of women and minority artists. * Totally reorganized nineteenth- and twentieth-century material, many new images from nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists.</p>

Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Vol. 2: Renaissance and Modern Art

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Presents a survey of the history of fortifications since ancient times, relates the science of siege warfare to the state of engineering of its time, and theorrizes on the relation of fortification types to social and political institutions (... excerpted from the jacket flap). Large 8vo, 128 pages including Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, and Sources of Illustrations. Hardcover.

Military considerations in city planning: fortifications (Planning and cities)

Architecture

G. Braziller

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