This volume presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition; within the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications, as well as a sense of the historical development оввем of individual arts media Chapters present and discuss a formal analysis of works of art in the following periods: the Ancient World, the Aegean and Archaic Greece, Greek Classicism and Hellenism, the Roman Period, Judaism and Early Christianity, Byzantium and Islam, the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, the High, Renaissance and Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Age, Realism, Impressionism, Modernism, and Postmodernism For art history enthusiasts and those interested in a familiarity with major styles and their implications, as well as a sense of the historical development.  Кинороман2005 г Мягкая обложка, 640 стр ISBN 0131936808.