Jesse Bryant Wilder: Art History For Dummies

Art History For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

5 Part 1: Getting Started with Art History Chapter 1: Art Tour through the Ages Connecting Art Divisions and Culture It’s Ancient History, So Why Dig It Up? Did the Art World Crash When Rome Fell, or Did It Just Switch Directions? In the Machine Age, Where Did Art Get Its Power? The Modern World and the Shattered Mirror Chapter 2: Why People Make Art and What It All Means Focusing on the Artist’s Purpose Detecting Design Decoding Meaning Chapter 3: The Major Artistic Movements Distinguishing an Art Period from a Movement Tracking Major 19th-Century Art Movements Moving Off the Rails in the 20th Century

6 Part 2: From Caves to Colosseum: Ancient Art Chapter 4: Magical Hunters and Psychedelic Cave Artists Cool Cave Art or Paleolithic Painting: Why Keep It a Secret? Flirting with Fertility Goddesses Dominoes for Druids: Stonehenge, Menhirs, and Neolithic Architecture Chapter 5: Fickle Gods, Warrior Art, and the Birth of Writing: Mesopotamian Art Climbing toward the Clouds: Sumerian Architecture The Eyes Have It: Scoping Out Sumerian Sculpture 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 You Get in Rococo Art Breaking with Baroque: Antoine Watteau Fragonard and Boucher: Lush, Lusty, and Lavish Flying High: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rococo Lite: The Movement in England