From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History, 7th edition

Designed as a comprehensive supplement to Janson's History of Art, Sixth Edition, Hartt's Art, Fourth Edition, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Eleventh Edition, and Stokstad's Art History, Second Edition — but also appropriate as a stand-alone brief reference text — this handbook defines the most common terms used in discussing the history of visual arts, relating them to specific works illustrated in these standard texts.

• NEW - Expanded and updated chronology of painters, sculptors, photographers—With phonetic pronunciations of names.

  • Provides students with a broad range of historical knowledge relating to ancient medieval and Renaissance art.

• NEW - Updated and expanded Directory of Museum websites.

  • Directs students to a vast storehouse of current digital imagery.

• NEW - Updated visual references.

  • Provides students with maps and illustrations that coordinate with companion texts.

• NEW - Updated terms, newly introduced mythology and Christian subject matter explained and analyzed.

  • Keeps students current on subject matter addressed in companion volumes.

• Parallels illustrations in Stokstad's Art History.

  • Provides students with an introduction to basic visual principles.

• More complete, systematic treatment of media, techniques, processes, and visual principles.

  • Provides students with more information than found in standard art survey texts.

• Correlates with Janson, History of Art —Providing a current, comprehensive supplement that defines and explains the most common terms and concepts used in discussing the history of visual art.

  • Provides students with terms, process principles, subjects and symbols that can be studied as they appear in particular contexts and in historical sequence.

• Basic art elements, terms, processes, media, and principles.

  • Provides students with an expanded dictionary of terms.

• Non-Christian and Christian subjects and their iconography—In chronological order: devotional; narrative subjects—The Fall of Man, The Incarnation, The Public Ministry of Christ, The Passion, The Mission of the Apostles and the Second Coming, Old Testament Prefigurations of New Testament Events.

  • Provides students with comprehensive coverage of non-Christian and Christian subjects and their iconography.

• Maps and line drawings— Familiarizes students with art centers of Western Europe; art centers and archaeological sites of the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and India.

  • Provides students with visual reinforcement of concepts in the text.

• Index.

  • Provides students with hundreds of terms and subjects defined within major entries.

• Table of more than 1,000 parallel illustrations—In Hartt's Art, Fourth Edition, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Eleventh Edition, Janson's, History of Art, Seventh Edition, and Stokstad's Art History, Second Edition.

  • Offers students a list of identical or similar illustrations that correspond to Janson's figure numbers so they can be cross-referenced in current editions of Stokstad, Hartt and Gardner.

• Expanded and updated chronology of painters, sculptors, photographers—With phonetic pronunciations of names.

  • Provides students with a broad range of historical knowledge relating to ancient medieval and Renaissance art.

• Updated and expanded Directory of Museum websites.

  • Directs students to a vast storehouse of current digital imagery.

• Updated visual references.

  • Provides students with maps and illustrations that coordinate with companion texts.

• Updated terms, newly introduced mythology and Christian subject matter explained and analyzed.

  • Keeps students current on subject matter addressed in companion volumes.