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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gombrich, E.H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001. Story of art. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1995 (DLC) 96140698 (OCoLC)34705214 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E H Gombrich |
OCLC Number: | 741739612 |
Description: | 1 online resource (688 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Contents: | Introduction : on art and artists -- 1. Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples ; Ancient America -- 2. Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- 3. The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- 4. The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- 5. World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- 6. A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- 7. Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- 8. Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- 9. The church militant : the twelfth century -- 10. The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- 11. Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- 12. The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- 13. Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- 14. Tradition and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- 15. Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- 16. Light and colour : Venice and Northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- 17. The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- 18. A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- 19. Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- 20. The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- 21. Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 22. Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- 23. The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- 24. The break in tradition : England, American and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- 25. Permanent Revolution : the nineteenth century -- 26. In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- 27. Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- 28. A story without end : the triumph of modernism -- Another turning of the tide -- The changing past -- A note on art books -- Chronological charts -- Maps -- List of illustrations by location -- Index and glossary. |
Responsibility: | E.H. Gombrich. |
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