- Preface
- Introduction: On art and artists
- Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America
- Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
- The Great Awakening: Greece, seventh to fifth century BC
- The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, fourth century BC to first century AD
- World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD
- A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century
- Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, second to thirteenth century
- Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, sixth to eleventh century
- The Church Militant: The twelfth century
- The Church Triumphant: the thirteenth century
- Courtiers and Burghers: the fourteenth century
- The Conquest of Reality: The early fifteenth century
- Tradition and Innovation I: The later fifteenth century in Italy
- Tradition and Innovation II: The fifteenth century in the North
- Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century
- Light and Colour: Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century
- The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century
- A Crisis of Art: Europe, later sixteenth century
- Vision and Visions: Catholic, first half of the seventeenth century
- The Mirror of Nature: Holland, seventeenth century
- Power and Glory I: Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
- The Age of Reason: England and France, eighteenth century
- The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Permanent Revolution: The nineteenth century
- In Search of New Standards: The late nineteenth century
- Experimental Art: The first half of the twentieth century
- A Story without End: The triumph of Modernism, Another turning of the tide, The changing past
- A note on art books
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