History of Art II is a turn-key online course package that introduces students to the major stylistic, thematic, and historical trends in art history from the Renaissance through today. It encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the meaning and function of art objects, architecture, and design artifacts within their original historical contexts. In addition, it helps students to relate artists and art to their cultural, economic, and political contexts.
The turn-key online course package fuses an online textbook with interactive timeline, key term flash cards, video links, beautiful images, chapter quizzes / tests, online discussion boards, and more.
Chapter 1: Late Medieval Art in Italy (Fourteenth Century)
Chapter 2: Northern Renaissance Art in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 3: Early Renaissance Art in Italy (Fifteenth Century)
Chapter 4: High Renaissance Art in Italy (Sixteenth Century)
Chapter 5: Sixteenth Century art in Northern Europe
Chapter 6: Seventeenth Century Art in Europe
Chapter 7: European and American Art from Rococo to Romanticism, 1715 – 1840
Chapter 8: Nineteenth Century Realisms to Art Nouveau: European and American Art, 1840 – 1910
Chapter 9: Fauvism to WWII – Modernism in Europe and the Americas, 1900 – 1950
Chapter 10: Postmodernity – Pop to Today
Chapter 11: South and Southeast Asia Art After 1200 C.E.
Chapter 12: Chinese Art After 1279 C.E. and Korean Art After 1392
Chapter 13: Japanese Art After 1185 C.E.
Chapter 14: Art of the Americas After 1300 C.E.
Chapter 15: Art of Africa After 1500 C.E.