Bulfinch Guide to Art History: A Comprehensive Survey and Dictionary of Western Art And...

This unique art history reference combines 13 informative essays written by an international team of scholars with more than 5,000 comprehensive and topical entries, all cross-referenced. The essays place the history of Western art within a vivid cultural, social, and historical context, covering such aspects as art in the ancient world; medieval architecture; the Renaissance; 17th-century court art; genre painting; portraiture; women as artists and subjects; modernism and post-modernism; and more. The dictionary section provides a corpus of factual knowledge of artistic terms, biographical profiles, and theoretical concepts. Well illustrated with 200 full color and 200 black and white illustrations.