| Introduction: On Art and Artists |
| Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America / 1： |
| Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete / 2： |
| The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC / 3： |
| The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD / 4： |
| World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD / 5： |
| A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century / 6： |
| Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century / 7： |
| Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century / 8： |
| The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century / 9： |
| The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century / 10： |
| Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century / 11： |
| The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century / 12： |
| Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy / 13： |
| Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North / 14： |
| Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century / 15： |
| Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century / 16： |
| The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century / 17： |
| A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century / 18： |
| Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century / 19： |
| The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century / 20： |
| Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / 21： |
| Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / 22： |
| The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century / 23： |
| The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / 24： |
| Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century / 25： |
| In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century / 26： |
| Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century / 27： |
| A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism / 28： |
| Another Turning of the Tide |
| The Changing Past |
| A Note on Art Books |
| Chronological Charts |
| Maps |
| List of Illustrations by Location |
| Index and Glossary |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction: On Art and Artists |
| Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America / 1： |
| Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete / 2： |
| The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC / 3： |
| The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD / 4： |
| World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD / 5： |
