Contents

Volume One: ANCIENT ART

Translator’s Preface

Introduction to the FirstFrench Edition (1909)

Preface to the New Edition(1929)

I. Before History (part II, part III)

II. Egypt (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

III. The Ancient Orient (part II, part III)

IV. The Sources of Greek Art (part II, part III, part IV)

V. Phidias (part II, part III, part IV)

VI. The Dusk of Mankind (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

VII. Intimate Greece (part II, part III, part IV)

VIII. Rome (part II, part III, part IV)

Volume Two: MEDIAEVAL ART

Introduction

Epigraph

I. India (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

II. China (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

III. Japan (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

IV. The Tropics (part II, part III)

V. Byzantium (part II, part III)

VI. Islam (part II, part III)

VII. Christianity and the Commune (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII)

VIII. The Expansion of the French Idea (part II, part III, part IV)

IX. The Mission of Francis of Assisi (part II, part III, part IV)

Volume Three: RENAISSANCE ART

Author’s Note

Introduction

Epigraph

I. Florence (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

II. Rome and the School (part II, part III, part IV)

III. Venice (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII)

IV. The Franco-Flemish Cycle (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

V. Fontainebleau, the Loire and the Valois (part II, part III, part IV)

VI. Germany and the Reformation (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

Volume Four: MODERN ART

Introduction

Epigraph

I. Flanders (part II, part III)

II. Holland (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

III. Spain (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

IV. The French Monarchy and the Aesthetic Dogma (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

V. The Rationalist Passion (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI)

VI. England (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

VII. Romanticism and Materialism (part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII, part VIII, part IX, part X)

VIII. The Contemporary Genesis (part II, part III, part IV, part V)

Fin

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