From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism,Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the scandalous,the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the conventional.There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. Works of art that were immediately recognized for their genius, and others that were at first met with resistance.

Introduction

13th century

14th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

Chronology

Glossary

Index