Introduction: Mankind in the looking glass: Art history 101: Art tour through the ages
Why people make art and what it all means
Major artistic periods and movements
From caves to colosseum: Ancient art: Magical hunters and psychedelic cave artists
Fickle Gods, warrior art, and birth of writing: Mesopotamian Art
One foot in the tomb: Ancient Egyptian art
Greek art, Olympian ego, and inventors of modern world
Etruscan and Roman art: It's all Greek to me!
Art after the fall of Rome: A.D. 500-A.D 1760: Graven image: Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
Mystics, marauders, and manuscripts: Medieval Art
Born-again culture: Early and high Renaissance
Venetian Renaissance, late gothic, and Renaissance in the North
Art that'll stretch your neck: Mannerism
When Renaissance went baroque
Industrial Revolution and artistic devolution: 1760-1900: All roads lead back to Rome and Greece: Neoclassical art
Romanticism: Reaching within and acting out
What you see is what you get: Realism
First impressions: Impressionism
Making their own impression: Post-impressionists
Twentieth-century art and beyond: From fauvism to expressionism
Cubist puzzles and finding the fast lane with futurists
What you see is what you don't get: From nonobjective art to abstract expressionism
Anything-goes art: Fab fifties and psychedelic sixties
Photography: From a science to an art
New world: Postmodern art
Part of tens: Ten must-see art museums
Ten great books by ten great artists
Ten brushstrokes that shook the world
Appendix: online resources
