Award-winning scholar-professor Fred Kleiner continues to set the standard for art history textbooks, combining impeccable scholarship with an engaging approach that discusses the most significant artworks and monuments in their full historical and cultural contexts. The most widely read and respected history of art and architecture in the English language for over 85 years, the 15th edition of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: BACKPACK EDITION includes nearly 200 new images, new pedagogical box features, images that have been upgraded for clarity and color-fidelity, and more. Over 40 reviewers contributed to the accuracy and readability of this edition.

GARDNER'S has built its stellar reputation on up-to-date and extensive scholarship, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, the consistent voice of a single storyteller, and more online resources and help for students and instructors than any other art survey text. A highly comprehensive array of digital resources brings course content to life, providing students with the tools they need to excel.

MindTap for GARDNER'S provides an interactive digital experience for exploration, study, and development of critical-thinking skills, with an interactive eBook; zoomable versions of images from the text; nearly 300 videos; audio resources; image flashcards; quizzes and critical-thinking questions; and much more. Highly customizable, MindTap allows instructors to easily add their own images, videos, links, articles, activities, and quizzes. Available assets for instructors include a Digital Image Library with zoom capability, pre-made chapter lecture slide decks, and Google Earth coordinates for every artwork in the text.

Book A: ANTIQUITY
Introduction: What is Art History?
1. Art in the Stone Age.
2. Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia.
3. Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra.
4. The Prehistoric Aegean.
5. Ancient Greece.
6. The Etruscans.
7. The Roman Empire.
Book B: THE MIDDLE AGES.
8. Late Antiquity.
9. Byzantium.
10. The Islamic World.
11. Early Medieval Europe.
12. Romanesque Europe.
13. Gothic Europe.
14. Late Medieval Italy.
Book C: NON-WESTERN ART TO 1300.
Introduction: What is Art History?
10. The Islamic World.
15. South and Southeast Asia before 1200.
16. China and Korea to 1279.
17. Japan before 1333.
18. Native American Cultures before 1300.
19. Africa before 1800.
Book D: RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART.
Introduction: What is Art History?
Before 1300.
14. Late Medieval Italy.
20. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art in Northern Europe.
21. The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy.
22. Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy.
23. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain.
24. The Baroque in Italy and Spain.
25. The Baroque in Northern Europe.
Book E: MODERN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
26. Rococo to Neoclassicism: The 18th Century in Europe and America.
27. Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870.
28. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900.
29. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945.
30. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980.
31. Contemporary Art Worldwide.
Book F: NON-WESTERN ART SINCE 1300.
32. South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980.
33. China and Korea, 1279 to 1980.
34. Japan, 1333 to 1980.
35. Native American Cultures, 1300 to 1980.
36. Oceania before 1980.
37. Africa, 1800 to 1980.

Award-winning scholar-professor Fred Kleiner continues to set the standard for art history textbooks, combining impeccable scholarship with an engaging approach that discusses the most significant artworks and monuments in their full historical and cultural contexts. The most widely read and respected history of art and architecture in the English language for over 85 years, the 15th edition of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: BACKPACK EDITION includes nearly 200 new images, new pedagogical box features, images that have been upgraded for clarity and color-fidelity, and more. Over 40 reviewers contributed to the accuracy and readability of this edition. GARDNER'S has built its stellar reputation on up-to-date and extensive scholarship, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, the consistent voice of a single storyteller, and more online resources and help for students and instructors than any other art survey text. A highly comprehensive array of digital resources brings course content to life, providing students with the tools they need to excel. MindTap for GARDNER'S provides an interactive digital experience for exploration, study, and development of critical-thinking skills, with an interactive eBook; zoomable versions of images from the text; nearly 300 videos; audio resources; image flashcards; quizzes and critical-thinking questions; and much more. Highly customizable, MindTap allows instructors to easily add their own images, videos, links, articles, activities, and quizzes. Available assets for instructors include a Digital Image Library with zoom capability, pre-made chapter lecture slide decks, and Google Earth coordinates for every artwork in the text. The 15th edition includes Google Earth coordinates for all sites and works discussed in the text to help you bring your students on a virtual tour of art through the ages. New architecture videos, available on MindTap, give students a virtual tour of significant monuments and sites and the feeling of "being there" while learning more about interior and exterior features and details. "Problems and Solutions" and "The Patron's Voice" text boxes add a further dimension to students' understanding of particular works and movements. All maps have been updated and revised for clarity and accuracy, helping students to make geographical connections between places and sites. Architectural drawings and three-dimensional reconstructions, beautifully rendered by John Burge, include cut-away reconstructions of the plan of the Palace at Knossos (Chapter 4; appears in Book A: Antiquity) and the plan of the Palatine Chapel at Aachen (Chapter 11; appears in Book B: The Middle Ages). Chapter 8: Late Antiquity content is now presented in chronological order and the previously separate discussions of Dura Europos, funerary art, architecture and architectural decoration, and luxury arts (appears in Book B: The Middle Ages) have been merged. Chapter 15: South and Southeast Asia before 1200 (appears in Book C: Non-Western Art to 1300) has been expanded. Chapter 23: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain has a new sequence of regions and individual artists (appears in Book D: Renaissance and Baroque Art. Chapter 28: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870-1900 (appears in Book E: Modern Europe and America) has been extensively revised.