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Key pedagogical features include:

• Data boxes provide statistics, timelines, charts and historical information about the period to further situate artworks.

• Text boxes highlight extracts from original sources, citing the ideas of artists and their contemporaries, including historians, philosophers, critics and theorists, to place artists and works in the broader context of aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, social and political conditions in which artists were working.

• Beautifully illustrated with over 250 color images.

• Margin notes and glossary definitions for a clear understanding of terms.

Chapters take a thematic approach combined within an overarching chronology and more detailed discussions of individual works are always put in the context of the broader social picture, thus providing students with a sense of art history as a controversial and alive arena of study.