Art Through the Ages

As they consider in turn ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern art, authors Richard Tansey and Fred Kleiner enlarge and sharpen our awareness and understanding of visual images as inseparable from the time, place, and circumstance of their creation. And they examine not only the traditional masterpieces but also works made for the non-elite by the non-elite-in other words, much non-European art of first importance that has too often been ignored in favor of the "canon."

They reveal in detail the extent to which art, in its many manifestations, both reflects and participates in the transformation of our view of ourselves and of the world we live in. Thus the works produced during the third through the fifth centuries and in the seventh and eighth centuries, in Turkey, Spain, and Persia, have intimate connections, respectively, to the fall of Rome, the coming of Christianity, and the rise of Islam. 9"x11" c.1996

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