Arts and culture : an introduction to the humanities : combined volume / Janetta Rebold Benton Robert DiYanni.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

V.1. Prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian civilizations -- Aegean culture and Early Greece -- Classical and Hellenistic Greece -- Roman civilization -- Judaism, Early Christianity, and Byzantine civilization -- Islamic civilization -- Indian civilization -- Early Chinese civilization -- Early Japanese civilization -- Early civilizations of the Americas and Africa -- Early Middle Ages and the Romanesque -- Gothic and late Middle Ages -- The Renaissance and mannerism in Italy -- v. 2. The Renaissance and mannerism in Italy -- The Renaissance in Northern Europe -- The Baroque age -- The eighteenth century -- Romanticism and realism -- Impressionism and post-Impressionism -- Chinese civilization after the thirteenth century -- Japanese civilization after the fifteenth century -- Early twentieth century -- Modern Africa and Latin America -- Mid-twentieth century and later -- Diversity in contemporary life.