An insightful and entertaining overview of the visual arts and music from prehistory to the end of the nineteenth century.

CHAPTER I:Prologue
CHAPTER II: The Art of Prehistoric Man
CHAPTER III: The Art of Egypt
CHAPTER IV: Babylon and Chaldea and the Land of the Mysterious Sumerians
CHAPTER V: Heinrich Schliemann
CHAPTER VI: The Art of the Greeks
CHAPTER VII: The Age of Pericles
CHAPTER VIII: Pots and Pans and Earrings and Spoons
CHAPTER IX: The Etruscans and the Romans
CHAPTER X: Early Christians and Byzantines
CHAPTER XI: Russia
CHAPTER XII: Islam
CHAPTER XIII: Persia
CHAPTER XIV: The Early Medieval Period
CHAPTER XV: The Provence
CHAPTER XVI: Gothic
CHAPTER XVII: The End of the Gothic Period
CHAPTER XVIII: The Spirit of the Renaissance
CHAPTER XIX: Florence
CHAPTER XX: Il Beato Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole
CHAPTER XXI: Florence Comes into her Own as the World's Greatest Art Centre
CHAPTER XXII: The Putti
CHAPTER XXIII: The Invention of Oil-Painting
CHAPTER XXIV: The Italian Picture Factory Gets Under Way
CHAPTER XXV: America
CHAPTER XXVI: New Ears Begin to Listen where New Eyes have already been Taught to See
CHAPTER XXVII: The New Prosperity Reaches the Heart of Europe
CHAPTER XXVIII: A Mighty Fortress is Our God
CHAPTER XXIX: Baroque
CHAPTER XXX: The Dutch School of Painting
CHAPTER XXXI: The Grand Siècle
CHAPTER XXXII Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Molière Dies, and is Buried in Sacred Ground
CHAPTER XXXIII: The Actor Makes his Reappearance
CHAPTER XXXIV: The Opera
CHAPTER XXXV: Cremona
CHAPTER XXXVI: A New and Fashionable Form of Entertainment
CHAPTER XXXVII: Rococo
CHAPTER XXXVIII: Some More Rococo
CHAPTER XXXIX: India, China, and Japan
CHAPTER XL: Goya
CHAPTER XLI: The Picture-Book Gives Way to the Music-Book