Art History For Dummies. Jesse Bryant Wilder

Playing Puabi’s Lyre Unraveling the Standard of Ur Stalking Stone Warriors: Akkadian Art Stamped in Stone: Hammurabi’s Code Unlocking Assyrian Art Babylon Has a Baby: New Babylon Chapter 6: One Foot in the Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Art Ancient Egypt 101 The Art of a Unified Egypt The Egyptian Style: Proportion and Orientation Excavating Old Kingdom Architecture The In-Between Period and Middle Kingdom Realism New Kingdom Art Chapter 7: Greek Art, the Olympian Ego, and the Inventors of the Modern World Mingling with the Minoans: Snake Goddesses, Minotaurs, and Bull Jumpers Greek Sculpture: Stark Symmetry to a Delicate Balance Figuring Out Greek Vase Painting Rummaging through Ruins: Greek Architecture Greece without Borders: Hellenism Chapter 8: Etruscan and Roman Art: It’s All Greek to Me! The Mysterious Etruscans Infusing Art with Roman Influence Revealing Roman Architecture: A Marriage of Style and Engineering

      7  Part 3: Art after the Fall of Rome: AD 500–AD 1760 Chapter 9: The Graven Image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art The Rise and Fall of Constantinople Early Christian Art in the West Byzantine Art Meets Imperial Splendor Islamic Art: Architectural Pathways to God Chapter 10: Mystics, Marauders, and Manuscripts: Medieval Art Irish Light: Illuminated Manuscripts Charlemagne: King of His Own Renaissance Weaving and Unweaving the Battle of Hastings: The Bayeux Tapestry Romanesque Architecture: Churches That Squat Romanesque Sculpture Relics and Reliquaries: Miraculous Leftovers Gothic Grandeur: Churches That Soar Stained-Glass Storytelling Gothic Sculpture Italian Gothic Gothic Painting: Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto Tracking the Lady and the Unicorn: The Mystical Tapestries of Cluny Chapter 11: Born-Again Culture: The Early and High Renaissance The Early Renaissance in Central Italy The High Renaissance Chapter 12: Venetian Renaissance, Late Gothic, and the Renaissance in the North A Gondola Ride through the Venetian Renaissance Late Gothic: Northern Naturalism Northern Exposure: The Renaissance in the Netherlands and Germany Chapter 13: Art That’ll Stretch Your Neck: Mannerism Detecting the Non-Rules of Mannerism Pontormo: Front and Center Bronzino’s Background Symbols and Scene Layering Parmigianino: He’s Not a Cheese! Arcimboldo: À la Carte Art Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625): Invading Art History’s Guys’ Club El Greco: Stretched to the Limit Lavinia Fontana: The First Professional Female Painter Finding Your Footing in Giulio Romano’s Palazzo Te Chapter 14: When the Renaissance Went Baroque Baroque Origin, Purpose, and Style Annibale Carracci: Heavenly Ceilings Shedding Light on the Subject: Caravaggio and His Followers Elisabetta Sirani and an Art School for Women The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy: Bernini Sculpture Embracing Baroque Architecture Dutch and Flemish Realism French Flourish and Baroque Light Shows In the Limelight with Caravaggio: The Spanish Golden Age Chapter 15: Going Loco with Rococo What