Includes bibliographical references (page 190) and index.
The ancient world -- Antiquities and Cypriot collection -- The Renaissance -- Northern Europe: The age of Cranach -- Central Italy: The age of Giotto to Michelangelo -- Venice and Northern Italy: The age of Titian -- Baroque art -- Italian Baroque art: The age of Bernini -- French Baroque art: The age of Poussin -- Baroque art in Spain and its dominions: The age of Velázquez -- Baroque art in Flanders: The age of Rubens -- Dutch and other Northern Baroque art: The age of Rembrandt -- The Rococo -- Rococo art in Europe: The age of Tiepolo -- Neoclassicism and the grand tour: The age of Reynolds -- The nineteenth century -- The belle epoque -- The twentieth century -- Abstraction and after