Gardner's art through the ages: a concise global history

1. Prehistory and the First Civilizations

2. Ancient Greece

3. The Roman Empire

4. Early Christianity and Byzantium

5. The Islamic World

6. Early Medieval and Romanesque Europe

7. Gothic and Late Medieval Europe

8. The Early Renaissance in Europe

9. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Europe

10. Baroque europe

11. Rococo to Neoclassicism in Europe and America

12. Romanticism, Realism, and Photography, 1800 to 1870

13. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism, 1870 to 1900

14. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945

15. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980

16. Contemporary Art Worldwide

17. South and Southeast Asia

18. China and Korea

19. Japan

20. Native Americas and Oceania.

21. Africa.