Glubok, Shirley

Depicts the customs and history of the era of knighthood and chivalry through descriptions of armor surviving as museum pieces and works of art.

Discussions of colonial paintings, buildings, and household objects trace the history of art in colonial America.

Presents objects of Roman art--columns, statues, mosaics, portraits, reliefs, buildings, and murals--and explains how and why they were created.

A lecturer to children at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City shows through text and photographs how the Egyptians lived before 3100 B.C. until Roman times.

Depicts the customs and history of the era of knighthood and chivalry through descriptions of armor surviving as museum pieces and works of art.

Discusses how the paintings, architecture, furniture, sculpture, and other visual arts produced from 1776-1826 reflected the way of life in the new American nation.

Discussions of colonial paintings, buildings, and household objects trace the history of art in colonial America.

This introduction to Japanese art discusses the meaning of various symbols, the influence of religion on art, and makes art a part of every day life in Japan.

A survey of the Old West as it was captured in the paintings, sculpture, and photographs of such artists as Charles Nahl, Frederic Remington, Edward Curtis, Thomas Eakins, and William Henry Jackson.