Engaging art -- Prehistoric and ancient art -- Greek art -- Roman art -- The rise of Christianity -- Medieval art -- Italian Renaissance art -- Northern Renaissance art -- The counter-Reformation and the aristocratic baroque -- Seventeenth-century Dutch art -- English baroque and eighteenth-century European and American art -- Art in the romantic age -- The rise of modernism: 1848-1900 -- Early twentieth-century modernism -- Post-war to postmodern art.