Purposes of art: an introduction to the history and appreciation of art

Introduction: the artist's past training and status

Art as a matter of life and death

Images of Gods

Religious architecture

The sacred book

The synthesis of heaven and earth fifteenth-century Flemish art

The synthesis of heaven and earth fifteenth-century Italian art

Michelangelo

The synthesis of heaven and earth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art

The table in Baroque secular art

Rembrandt

Images of authority

The architecture of authority

To be of one's time: the synthesis of past and present in nineteenth-century art

Themes from nature

Painting and objects

The portrait in painting and sculpture

The figure in sculpture

Picasso

Imaginative art

Death of the window and life of the square: abstraction.