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内容提要

  

    50多年来，恩斯特·贡布里希的《艺术的故事》一直是一本全球性的畅销书，为众多读者提供了理想的艺术史入门读物。他用流畅的语言和娓娓道出的故事，把从早期的洞窟绘画到20世纪的艺术写成了一部清晰且富有洞见的杰作。
    此次影印的英文豪华版采用套盒布面精装，不仅值得收藏家和艺术爱好者珍藏，也能满足想要参考、学习原著的读者们的需要。

Preface
Introduction
  On art and artists
Ⅰ  Strange beginnings
  Prehistoric and primitive peoples;Ancient America
Ⅱ  Art for eternity
  Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
Ⅲ  The great awakening
  Greece, seventh to fifih century BC
Ⅳ  The realm of beauty
  Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD
Ⅴ  World conquerors
  Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians,first to fourth century AD
Ⅵ  A parting of ways
  Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century
Ⅶ  Looking eastwards
  Islam, China, second to thirteenth century
Ⅷ  Western art in the melting pot
  Europe, sixth to eleventh century
Ⅸ  The Church militant
  The twelfth century
Ⅹ  The Church triumphant
  The thirteenth century
Ⅺ  Courtiers and burghers
  The fourteenth century
Ⅻ  The conquest of reality
  The early fifieenth century
ⅩⅢ  Tradition and innovation I
  The later fifteenth century in Italy
ⅩⅣ  Tradition and innovation 1I
  The fifteenth century in the North
ⅩⅤ  Harmony attained
  Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century
ⅩⅥ  Light and colour
  Venice and northern Italy,early sixteenth century
ⅩⅦ  The newlearning spreads
  Germany and the Netherlands,early sixteenth century
ⅩⅧ  Acrisisofart
  Europe, later sixteenth century
ⅩⅨ  Vision and visions
  Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century
ⅩⅩ  The mirror of nature
  Holland, seventeenth century
ⅩⅪ  Power and glory Ⅰ
  Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
ⅩⅫ  Power and glory Ⅱ
  France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
ⅩⅩⅢ  The age of reason
  England and France, eighteenth century
ⅩⅩⅣ  The break in tradition
  England, America and France,late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
ⅩⅩⅤ  Permanent revolution
  The nineteenth century
ⅩⅩⅥ  In search of new standards
  The late nineteenth century
ⅩⅩⅦ  Experimental art
  The first half of the twentieth century
ⅩⅩⅧ  A story without end
  The triumph of Modernism
  Another turning of the tide
  The changing past
A note on art books
Chronological charts
Maps
List of illustrations by location
Index and glossary
Acknowledgements