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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE
	HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE (S I T E   M A P) PART ONE From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Gothic Art Renaissance  Art Baroque and Rococo Art The Art of Asia Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art Art Styles in 19th century PART TWO Art of the 20th century PART THREE Artists and Paintings that Changed the World PART FOUR Western art History of Architecture and Sculpture PART FIVE History of Photography Dictionary of Photographers PART SIX History of Classical Music PART SEVEN History of Literature Dictionary of Writers PART EIGHT History of the World History of Religions History of Philosophy PART NINE Miscellanea PART TEN Dictionary of Art and Artists
PART ONE
PREHISTORIC & ANCIENT ART HELENIC & ITALIC CIVILIZATIONS
	(From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Map) INTRODUCTION ART THROUGH THE AGES. What is Art? From the Paleolithic Age to the Pre-Classical Civilizations Prehistoric Art The Art of the Ancient Kingdoms The Art of the Ancient East Ancient  Aegean Art    Hellenic and Italic Civilizations The Art of the Greeks Italic Art
THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE	(From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Map) An Art for Europe, Asia and Africa   Art of the Roman Empire      From Late Antiquity to the Romanesque The Early Christians and their Art Barbarian Art Byzantine Art Collection: Russian Architecture and Russian Icons From Carolingian to Romanesque Art
GOTHIC ERA	(Gothic Art Map) Gothic Art EXPLORATION: Revelations. Art of the Apocalypse EXPLORATION: Gothic Era EXPLORATION: Albrecht Durer Collection: Giotto Collection: Rogier van der Weyden Collection: Hubert & Jan van Eyck Collection: Hans Holbein the Younger Collection: The Bayeux Tapestry  "Propaganda on cloth" Collection: Illuminated Manuscripts Collection: Limbourg brothers ("Tres Riches Heures...") Collection: Masters of the Gothic Art
RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM	(Renaissance  Art Map) The Early Renaissance   EXPLORATION: Sandro Botticelli Collection: Venus - The Evening Star The High Renaissance and Mannerism     EXPLORATION: Leonardo da Vinci Collection: Leda and the Swan - myth in art EXPLORATION: Michelangelo Collection: Raphael Collection: Titian Collection: Giorgione Collection: El Greco Collection: Lucas Cranach the Elder EXPLORATION: Hieronymus Bosch EXPLORATION: Pieter Bruegel the Elder Collection: Hans Baldung Collection: Witches in art EXPLORATION: Arcimboldo EXPLORATION: Giorgio Vasari "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" Collection: Theodore De Bry Indians of North America School of Fontainebleau
BAROQUE & ROCOCO	(Baroque and Rococo Art Map) Baroque and Rococo  The 17th Century: the Age of Spectacle EXPLORATION: Rembrandt Collection: Danae Collection: Susanna and the Elders Collection: Bathsheba EXPLORATION: Vermeer EXPLORATION: Velazquez EXPLORATION: The Art of the Portrait Collection: Caravaggio Collection: Peter Paul Rubens Collection: Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens Collection: Jacques Callot "Miseries of War" Collection: William Hogarth "A Harlot's Progress" Collection: Francois Boucher Collection: Anatomy Art
ARTISTIC CULTURES OF ASIA & THE AMERICAS Artistic Cultures of Asia and the Americas The Art of Asia EXPLORATION: Indian Court Painting EXPLORATION: Japanese Ukiyo-e Japanese Prints Hiroshige's "Tokaido" Hokusai's "Views of Mt. Fuji" and "Panoramic View of Sumidagawa River" Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "Tsuki hyakushi" - 100 Aspects of the Moon Sesshu's Long Scrolll "East and West" Pre-Columbian Art Collection: African Masks
NEOCLASSICISM & ROMANTIC ERA	(Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art Map) Neoclassicism and Romanticism Collection: Jacques-Louis David Collection: Between Two Revolutions (From David to Delacroix) Collection: Napoleon Bonaparte Collection: Thomas Rowlandson (comic images of familiar social types) Collection: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres EXPLORATION: Francisco de Goya                      "CAPRICHOS", "DISASTERS OF WAR", "DISPARATES", "TAUROMAQUIA" Orientalism Collection: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land" Collection: Jean-Leon Gerome A Return to the Past Nazarenes Pre-Raphaelites EXPLORATION: Romantic Era Official Art (Academic Art) Collection: Adolphe William Bouguereau Collection: Lord Frederic Leighton Collection: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Collection: John William Godward Art Styles in the Industrial 19th Century The Creation of the Metropolis Art, Technology and Industry Collection: Dore (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe) Furnishings and Fashions The European Influence
IMPRESSIONISM & POST-IMPRESSIONISM	(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map) Realism Barbizon School The Impressionism   Collection: Claude Monet Collection: Edouard Manet Collection: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Collection: Edgar Degas New Trends in the 19th and 20th Centuries Post-Impressionism Collection: Paul Cezanne Pointillism EXPLORATION: Vincent van Gogh EXPLORATION: The Chronicle of Impressionism
A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART	(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map) Symbolism EXPLORATION: Henri Rousseau Nabis EXPLORATION: Matisse Fauvism Collection: Odilon Redon "The Unconscious" Collection: Aubrey Beardsley "Beardsley's Vision" Collection: Paul Gauguin Collection: Auguste Rodin EXPLORATION: Gustav Klimt The Modern Style Art Nouveau EXPLORATION: Alphonse Mucha
PART TWO
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY	(Art of the 20th century Art Map) Folk Art, Naive Art EXPLORATION: Naive Art EXPLORATION: Grandma Moses Year by Year - 1900 -1916 Russian  Silver Age  World of Art (Mir iskusstva) - 1898 Blue Rose - 1904 Expressionism - 1905 Die Brucke - 1905 EXPLORATION: Edvard Munch EXPLORATION: Amedeo Modigliani EXPLORATION: Francis Bacon Cubism - 1907 EXPLORATION: Pablo Picasso The Eight. The Ashcan school - 1908 Futurism - 1909 Jack of Diamonds - 1910 Der Blaue Reiter - 1911 Section d'Or (Golden Section) - 1912 Orphism - 1912 Rayonism - 1912 Constructivism - 1913 Vorticism - 1914 Suprematism - 1915
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY	(Art of the 20th century Art Map) Year by Year - 1916 -1924 Dadaism - 1916 De Stijl - 1917 Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Art) - 1917 Purism - 1918 Neo-plasticism - 1919 The Bauhaus school - 1919 Art Deco - 1920 Collection: Charles Dana Gibson Collection: Tamara de Lempicka Collection: d'Erte Collection: Norman Lindsay "Love on Earth" Pin-Up Art Precisionism - 1920 The Mexican Muralists - 1921 EXPLORATION: Diego Rivera New Objectivity - 1924 Novecento group - 1924 EXPLORATION: Marc Chagall
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY	(Art of the 20th century Art Map) Year by Year - 1924 -1929 Surrealism - 1924 EXPLORATION: Surrealist Art EXPLORATION: Salvador Dali Max Ernst "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage) EXPLORATION: Rene Magritte EXPLORATION: Surrealism Collection: Frida Kahlo "Frida - The Life in Self-Portraits" Addition: From Surrealism to Fantastic Art  (Dream art, Visionary art, Neo-surrealism, Magic realism, Psychedelic art, Visual art, Fantastic realism)
ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY	(Art of the 20th century Art Map) Year by Year - 1930 -1999 The New Architecture The Harlem Renaissance American Scene Painting Art and Politics Socialist Realism - 1932 Art in the Postwar Period Abstract Expressionism - 1943 Art brut - 1945 COBRA - 1948 Art Informel -1948 Tachism - 1954 The New Avant-garde and Postmodernism Soviet Nonconformist Art Collection: Fernando Botero Collection: Balthus Nouveau Realisme - 1960 Kinetic Art - 1961 Optical Art - 1965 Pop Art - 1965 Collection: Nude in Art of the 20th century "The Second Temple of Beauty" Conceptual Art Happening & Performance Art Body Art - 1965 Visual Poetry - 1965 Minimalism - 1965 Arte Povera - 1967 Land art Graffiti Photo & Hyperrealism Art Now (Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium)
PART THREE
ARTISTS & PAINTIGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD	Artists and Paintings that Changed the World Paintings that Changed the World FROM LASCAUX TO WARHOL The Modern Mind. Modern Art. FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-MODERNISM Abstract Art. ABSTRACT ART SINCE POLLOCK 100 Greatest Artists of the World FROM ALMA-TADEMA TO WATTEAU Alma-Tadema Altdorfer Angelico, Fra Arcimboldo Bacon Bosch Botticelli Boucher Bouguereau Bruegel Burne-Jones Canaletto Caravaggio Cezanne Chagall Chirico Claude Lorrain Constable Corot Correggio Courbet Cranach Dali Daumier David Degas Delacroix Delvaux Dore Durer Dyck, van El Greco Ernst Jan van Eyck Fragonard Friedrich Gainsborough Gauguin Gericault Giorgione Giotto Van Gogh Goya Gros Grunewald Hiroshige Hogarth Hokusai Holbein Hopper Ingres Jordaens Kahlo Kandinsky Klee Klimt Leighton Leonardo da Vinci Limbourg brothers Lorenzetti Magritte Manet  Mantegna Massys Matisse Michelangelo Millet Miro Modigliani Monet Moreau Moses Grandma Munch Murillo Orozco Picasso Pissarro Poussin Raphael Redon Rembrandt Renoir Rivera Rodin Rossetti Rousseau Rubens Seurat Tiepolo Tintoretto Titian Tolouse-Lautrec Turner Uccello Velazquez Vermeer Veronese Warhol Waterhouse Watteau
PART FOUR
ARCHITECTURE & SCULPTURE	History of Architecture and Sculpture (Western art - PAINTING, SCULPTURE and ARCHITECTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY) THE ANCIENT WORLD THE MIDDLE AGES THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO THE MODERN WORLD TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDEX
PART FIVE
PHOTOGRAPHY	History of Photography Introduction History of Photography A World History of Photography The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991 Dictionary of Photographers
PART SIX
CLASSICAL MUSIC	History of Classical Music (Classical Music Map) Introduction Classical Music The Middle Ages and the Renaissance The Baroque Era The Classical Era The Romantic Era The Romantic Legacy The Modern Age The great composers and their masterworks in MP3 format Albeniz Borodin Donizetti Hindemith Prokofiev Schutz Albinoni Brahms Dowland Janacek Puccini Scriabin Allegri Britten Dvorak Kodaly Purcell Sibelius Arne Bruckner Falla Leoncavallo Rachmaninov Smetana Auber Busoni Field Liszt Rameau Strauss J.S. Bach Byrd Gabrieli Lully Ravel Strauss R. Barber Carissimi Gershwin Mahler Respighi Stravinsky Bartok Charpentier Gesualdo Mendelssohn Rimsky-Korsakov Tallis Beethoven Cherubini Glinka Meyerbeer Rossini Tchaikovsky Bellini Chopin Gluck Monteverdi Saint-Saens Telemann Bernstein Clementi Gounod Mozart Scarlatti Verdi Berwald Corelli Grieg Mussorgsky Schoenberg Victoria Berlioz Couperin Handel Pachelbel Shostakovich Villa-Lobos Bizet Debussy Haydn Paganini Schubert Vivaldi Boccherini Delibes Hildegard Palestrina Schumann Wagner Orff "Carmina Burana" A Brief History of Jazz
PART SEVEN
HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE	History of  Literature (Based on Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Macmillan Encyclopedia, etc. MASTERPIECES of World Literature, BIOGRAPHIES of Writers and Philosophers, more than 300 CLASSIC TEXTS in English, ILLUSTRATIONS by G. Dore, W. Blake, S. Dali, A. Beardsley, M. Chagall, etc.) A Brief History of Western Literature History of English Literature History of French Literature History of German Literature History of Russian Literature History of American Literature A Brief History of Eastern Literature Miscellanea Dictionary of Writers
PART EIGHT
HISTORY OF THE WORLD	History of the World   (Based on Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Macmillan Encyclopedia, etc.) History of the World History of Religions History of Philosophy A Little History of the World Library of the History of the World
PART NINE
MISCELLANEA	Miscellanea Fantasy Art Vintage Photography Gallery (Retro) Fine Art Photography HOLLYWOOD (The Golden Age) Pin-Up Art Nude in Art of the 20th century "The Second Temple of Beauty" Posters Alchemy & Mysticism. The Hermetic Cabinet Cats Encyclopedia Idols (Elvisiana. Elvis Presley-Pop Idol. Marilyn Monroe "American symbol") Faeries by H. Johnson, "Good faeries & bad faeries" by B. Froud Graffiti Remix Art (Cedric  Tanguy. Yasumasa Morimura) Tarot. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (by Arthur Edward Waite) Tattoo Body art (Youri Messen-Jaschin) Monalisamania Kitsch, Velvet painting, Provocative art Psychedelic art (H. R. Giger)
PART TEN
ARTISTS INDEX	Dictionary of Art and Artists Entries on all the major artists Short, incisive biographies of over 4500 artists, including many new entries on modern artists Evaluations of the works of the greatest artists and their location Expositions of the best-known groups or schools of artists Descriptions of artistic techniques and styles Definitions of artistic movements (based on "The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists", "The Yale Dictionaryof Art and Artists", Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Macmillan Encyclopedia, etc)   Dictionary of Art and Artists         Dictionary of Writers         Dictionary of Photographers