Culture & values : a survey of the Western humanities /
Culture and values
Lawrence S. Cunningham, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, John J. Reich, Syracuse University, Florence, Italy, Lois Fichner-Rathus, The College of New Jersey.
- Eighth edition.
- xxxv, 455 pages : colored illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Arts: An Introduction. 1. Beginnings. 2. The Rise of Greece. 3. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period. 4. Rome. 5. The Rise of the Biblical Tradition. 6. Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium. 7. Islam. 8. The Rise of Medieval Culture. 9. The High Middle Ages. 10. The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition. 11. The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century. 12. The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy. 13. The High Renaissance in the North. 14. The Seventeenth Century: The Baroque Era. 15. The Eighteenth Century. 16. Romanticism, Realism, and Photography. 17. Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914. 18. The World at War. 19. The Contemporary Contour. Glossary.
Takes you on a tour of some of the world's significant examples of art, music, philosophy, and literature, from the beginnings of civilization to today.