Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Preface to the Expanded Edition 11
5. 1. Aristotle and the Greeks 15
6. 2. Roman and Late Classic Theory 22
7. 3. The Medieval Period 31
8. 4. The Italian Renaissance 37
9. 5. The Spanish Renaissance 57
10. 6. The French Renaissance 67
11. 7. The Renaissance in England and the Nether lands 76
12. 8. Seventeenth-Century France 90
13. 9. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century in England 112
14. 10. Eighteenth-Century France 141
15. 11. Germany to Hegel 163
16. 12. Italy and France in the Early Nineteenth Century 197
17. 13. Nineteenth-Century England 219
18. 14. Russian Theory to 1900 240
19. 15. The Germanic Tradition in the Late Nineteenth Century 248
20. 16. France in the Late Nineteenth Century 270
21. 17. The Early Twentieth Century, 1900-1914 302
22. 18. The Twentieth Century, 1914-1930 338
23. 19. The Twentieth Century, 1930-1950 376
24. 20. The Twentieth Century, 1950-1965 411
25. 21. The Twentieth Century, 1965-1980 454
26. 22. The Twentieth Century since 1980 505
27. Index 541