What is art history? -- Art before history -- Mesopotamia and Persia -- Egypt under the pharaohs -- The prehistoric Aegean -- Ancient Greece -- The Etruscans -- The Roman Empire -- Late antiquity -- Byzantium -- The Islamic world -- Early medieval Europe -- Romanesque Europe -- Gothic Europe -- Late medieval Italy -- South and Southeast Asia before 1200 -- China and Korea to 1279 -- Japan before 1333 -- Native arts of the Americas before 1300 -- Africa before 1800 -- Late medieval and early Renaissance Northern Europe -- The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy -- Renaissance and mannerism in Cinquecento Italy -- High Renaissance and mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain -- The baroque in Italy and Spain -- The baroque in Northern Europe -- Rococo to neoclassicism: the 18th century in Europe and America -- Romanticism, realism, photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 -- Impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism: Europe and America, 1870-1900 -- Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism and postmoderism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 -- Contemporary art worldwide -- South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980 -- China and Korea, 1279 to 1980 -- Japan, 1336 to 1980 -- Native arts of the Americas, 1300 to 1980 -- Oceania before 1980 -- Africa, 1800 to 1980.