Contents: The art of ancient greece and Rome -- Natiuve art of the Americas -- Innovations in architecture -- the Gothic cathedral in the middle ages -- Masters of the 14th-15th centuries -- the high renaissance -- Dramatic use of light -- From heroes to commoners -- European painting from 1750 to 1850 -- the impressionists -- Experiments with form and expression -- Picasso -- the twentieth century -- Mexican art in the twentieth century -- The Art of africa -- Sculpture of many cultureo -- the development of western seulpture -- American art -- Women in the visual arts