Part Four--The Renaissance and the Baroque and Rococo

Chapter 19--Late Gothic Art in Italy

• The City-States: Economics and Politics
• Humanism: The Revival of Classical Values
• The Humanization of Religious Experience
• Sculpture
• Painting

Chapter 20--Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain

• The Rise of Capitalism
• The Burgundian Netherlands
• France, Germany, and Spain
• Conclusions

Chapter 21--Fifteenth-Century Italian Art: The Early Renaissance

• The First Half of the Fifteenth Century
• The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 22--Sixteenth-Century Italian Art: The High Renaissance and Mannerism

• The High Renaissance
• Mannerism
• Venetian Art and Architecture

Chapter 23 - Sixteenth-Century Art in Northern Europea and Spain

• The Protestant Reformation
• Germany
• The Netherlands

Chapter 24--Baroque Art

• Italy
• Spain
• Flanders
• Holland
• France
• England

Chapter 25: The Eighteenth Century: Late Baroque and Rococo, and the Rise of Romanticism

• The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society
• The Early Eighteenth Century: Late Baroque and Rococo
• The Enlightenment: Science and Technology
• Reaction against the Rococo: The Taste for the "Natural"
• The Rise of Romanticism

Part Five: The Modern and post Modern World

Chapter 26: The Nineteenth Century: Pluralism of Style

• Science and Technology
• The Artists: Traditional or Modern?
• The Early Nineteenth Century: The Role of Romanticism
• Mid-Century Realism: The Reaction Against Romanticism
• The Later Nineteenth Century: Reactions against Realism in Painting