Art through the ages : an introduction to its history and significance. --

New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1926.

795 p. : il. ; 23 cm.

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Glosario : p. 753-761.

Preface. -- I.Prehistoric period in Europe. -- II. Egyptian period (I). Early Egypt and the Old Kingdom. -- III. Egyptian period (II). The middle Kingdom and Empire. -- IV. Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldean, and Persian periods. -- V. Minoan or Aegean period. -- VI. Greed period (I). Early Greed and archaic period. -- VII. Greek period (II). The fifth century. -- VIII. Greek period (III). The fourth century and Hellenistic age. -- IX. Roman period. -- X. Early Christian and Byzantine period. -- XI. Mohammedan period. -- XII. Persian period. -- XIII. Romanesque period. -- XIV. Gothic period. -- XV-XVIII. The Renaissance in Italy. -- XIX. Spain from the Gothic age to the nineteenth century. -- XX. Flanders from the Gothic age to the seventeenth century. -- XXI. Holland in the seventeenth century. -- XXII. Germany from the Gothic age to the nineteenth century. -- XXIII. England from the Gothic age to C. 1900 a.C. -- XXIV. France from the Gothic age to C. 1900 a.C. -- XXV. America. The United States from its colonization to C. 1900 a.D. -- XXVI. Aboriginal American art from earliest times to the seventeenth century. -- XXVII. India. -- XXVIII. China. -- XXIX. Japan. -- XXX. Contemporary art in Europe and America. -- Appendix. -- Glossary of technical terms. -- Index. --

Tomado del Prefacio : "The purse of this book is to introduce the reader to certain phases of art - architecture, painting, sculpture, and the minor arts - from the remote days of the glacial age in Europe, America, through the successive civilization of the Near East, Europe, America, and the Orient, to the twentieth century."