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A History of European Art is your gateway to this visually stunning story. In 48 beautifully illustrated lectures you will encounter all the landmarks you would expect to find in a comprehensive survey of Western art since the Middle Ages. Works such as Giotto's Arena Chapel, Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, Leonardo's The Last Supper, Michelangelo's David, Vermeer's View of Delft, Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Guernica, and hundreds more.

You will also find works that are completely new to you. Plus you'll be introduced to lesser-known artists—perhaps names you've heard but never connected to specific works—and you'll understand why they deserve to be classed among the great masters.

48 Lectures include:

1. Approaches to European Art
2 Carolingian and Ottonian Art
3. Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture
4. Gothic Art in France
5. Gothic Art in Germany and Italy
6. Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part I
7. Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part II
8. Duccio and the Maestà
9. Sienese Art in the 14th Century
10. The Black Death and the International Style
11. Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence
12. Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence
13. Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting
14. Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art
15 Northern Renaissance Altarpieces
16. Piero della Francesca in Arezzo
17. Sandro Botticelli
18. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini
19. High Renaissance Painting in Venice
20. The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci
21. The High Renaissance—Raphael
22. The High Renaissance—Michelangelo
23. Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art
24. Riemenschneider and Grünewald
25. Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century
26. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
27. Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo
28. Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art
29. Caravaggio
30. Italian Baroque Painting in Rome
31. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
32. Peter Paul Rubens
33. Dutch Painting in the 17th Century
34. Rembrandt
35. Poussin and Claude—The Allure of Rome
36. Baroque Painting in Spain
37. Louis XIV and Versailles
38. French Art in the 18th Century
39. Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism
40. Romanticism in the 19th Century
41. Realism—From Daumier to Courbet
42. Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism
43. Monet and Degas
44. Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne
45. Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse
46. Cubism and Early Modern Painting
47. Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi
48. Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso