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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I, 16th Edition

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D.

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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I 16th Edition by Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D.
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Award-winning scholar Fred Kleiner brings art, architecture and culture to life with GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME I, 16th Edition. Backed by 45 art history experts, Kleiner delivers his signature storytelling in this edition alongside 113 new reproduction images and more that have been upgraded for color-fidelity and clarity. To elevate the experience for learners, MindTap offers an interactive ebook with zoomable images, nearly 300 videos, an audio pronunciation guide, image flashcards, quizzes, and Google Earth coordinates of significant works. MindTap also allows you to customize your course with your own images, videos and activities, and use instructor resources to simplify planning. More than a text, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE has been inspiring a love for art and its history for more than 85 years.

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Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D.

Fred S. Kleiner, Ph.D. has been professor of art history and archeology at Boston University for four decades. He taught previously at University of Virginia and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. Acclaimed for inspiring lectures, Dr. Kleiner won Boston University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities and the Distinguished Teaching Prize in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as a member of the Text and Academic Authors Association. In addition to this title, Dr. Kleiner has authored several editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY (Cengage), A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART (Cengage) and more than 100 publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Dr. Kleiner earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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  • Mobile-Optimized Flashcards: Students can review key concepts and works of art on the go with the Cengage Mobile App.
  • Improved Images: With more than 113 new images and enhancements to existing images, the 16th edition offers the highest quality reproduction images in terms of clarity and color-fidelity.

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  • MindTap & Cengage Mobile: Reimagined for the 21st century, the most widely read and respected art history text is available in MindTap, the customizable and mobile-optimized multimedia teaching and learning platform.
  • Global Locators: Using Google Earth coordinates for sites and the provenance of artwork discussed in the text offers a virtual tour of art through the ages.
  • "A Second Opinion" Essays: These essays introduce students to current debates in the history of art and architecture, emphasizing the ever-changing dynamic of the art world.
  • Full-Color Reconstructions: Exquisitely rendered by John Burge, these three-dimensional views of important architectural sites help readers imagine these sites as they once existed.
  • "Big Picture" Features: The Big Picture full-page synopsis concludes every chapter, reinforcing key topics and representative artworks from each historical period.
  • MindTap Success: Take art history to new and interactive heights with over 1,500 high-resolution images, 300 video clips, exercises and quizzes, self-study tools, a glossary and audio pronunciation guide, Google Earth coordinates, and other resources.
  • Architecture Videos in MindTap: Students experience "being really there" by taking a virtual tour of significant monuments and sites while learning more about interior and exterior features and details.
  • Expert Storytelling: Award-winning scholar Fred Kleiner blends art history with rich stories and clear organization, making the 16th edition easier for students to understand than other texts.
  • Additional Art: Always the dependable, go-to resource, this edition features more works of art and architecture than any competing title.
  • Visual Scaling: To help readers appreciate size and scale as a component in describing artwork, a scale is positioned next to images of paintings, statues, and other works, as well as architectural plans.

Table of Contents

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0. BEFORE 1300.
Architectural Basics: Greco-Roman Temple Design and the Classical Orders. Architectural Basics: Arches and Vaults. Architectural Basics: Basilican Churches. Architectural Basics: Central-Plan Churches. Religion and Mythology: The Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus. Religion and Mythology: The Life of Jesus in Art. Religion and Mythology: Early Christian Saints and their Attributes.
I. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ART HISTORY?
Art History in the 21st Century. The Questions Art Historians Ask. The Words Art Historians Use. Art History and Other Disciplines. Different Ways of Seeing.
1. ART IN THE STONE AGE.
Paleolithic Art. Africa. Europe. Neolithic Art. Anatolia and Mesopotamia. Europe.
2. ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA.
Mesopotamia. Sumer. Akkad. Third Dynasty of Ur. Babylon. Elam. Assyria. Neo-Babylonia. Persia. Achaemenid Empire. Sasanian Empire.
3. EGYPT FROM NARMER TO CLEOPATRA.
Egypt and Egyptology. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods. Painting and Sculpture. Architecture. Old Kingdom. Architecture. Sculpture. Middle Kingdom. Sculpture. Architecture. New Kingdom. Architecture. Sculpture and Painting. Akhenaton and the Amarna Period. The Tomb of Tutankhamen and the Post-Amarna Period. First Millennium BCE. Kingdom of Kush. Thebes. After Alexander.
4. THE PREHISTORIC AEGEAN.
Greece before Homer. Troy and Mycenae. Cycladic Art. Minoan Art. Architecture. Painting. Sculpture. Mycenaean Art. Architecture. Metalwork, Sculpture, and Painting.
5. ANCIENT GREECE.
The Greeks and Their Gods. Geometric and Orientalizing Periods. Geometric Art. Orientalizing Art. Archaic Period. Statuary. Architecture and Architectural Sculpture. Vase painting. Aegina and the Transition to the Classical Period. Early and High Classical Periods. Architecture and Architectural Sculpture. Statuary. The Athenian Acropolis. Painting. Late Classical Period. Sculpture. Alexander the Great and Macedonian Court Art. Architecture. Hellenistic Period. Architecture. Pergamon. Statuary. Hellenistic Art Under Roman Patronage.
6. THE ETRUSCANS.
Etruria and the Etruscans. Early Etruscan Art. Orientalizing Art. Archaic Art and Architecture. Later Etruscan Art. Classical Art. Hellenistic Art and the Rise of Rome.
7. THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
Rome, Caput Mundi. Republic. Section Content. Architecture. Sculpture. Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius. Section Content. Civic Architecture. Domestic Architecture. Painting and Mosaic. Early Empire. Pax Romana. Augustus and the Julio-Claudians. The Flavians. High Empire. Trajan. Hadrian. Ostia. The Antonines. Late Empire. The Severans. The Soldier Emperors. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. Constantine.
8. LATE ANTIQUITY.
The Late Antique World. From the Soldier Emperors to the Sack of Rome. Dura-Europos. Rome. Luxury Arts. From the Sack of Rome to Justinian. Rome. Ravenna and Thessaloniki.
9. BYZANTIUM.
The Christian Roman Empire. Early Byzantine Art. Before Justinian. Justinianic Art and Architecture. Manuscript and Icon Painting. Middle Byzantine Art. Architecture and Mosaics. Ivory Carving and Painting. Late Byzantine Art. Painting.
10. THE ISLAMIC WORLD.
Early Islamic Art. Architecture. Luxury Arts. Later Islamic Art. Architecture. Luxury Arts.
11. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
Europe after the Fall of Rome. Merovingians and Anglo-Saxons. Merovingian Fibulae. Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. Vikings. Oseberg Ship Burial. Stave Church, Urnes. Hiberno-Saxon Monasteries. Book of Durrow. Lindisfarne Gospels. High Crosses. Visigothic and Mozarabic Art. Baños de Cerrato. Tábara. Carolingian Empire. Sculpture and Painting. Architecture. Ottonian Empire. Architecture. Sculpture and Painting.
12. ROMANESQUE EUROPE.
European Culture in the New Millennium. European Culture in the New Millennium: “Romanesque”. France and Northern Spain. Architecture and Architectural Sculpture. Painting and Other Arts. Holy Roman Empire. Architecture. Painting and Other Arts. Italy. Architecture and Architectural Sculpture. Normandy and England. Architecture. Painting and Other Arts.
13. GOTHIC EUROPE NORTH OF THE ALPS.
“Gothic”. France. Architecture, Sculpture, and Stained Glass. Book Illumination and Luxury Arts. Opus Francigenum Outside France. Section Content. England. Holy Roman Empire.
14. LATE MEDIEVAL ITALY.
Duecento (13th Century). Sculpture. Painting and Architecture. Trecento (14th Century). Black Death. Giotto. Siena. Florence. Pisa. Venice.

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