Metropolitan seminars in art: great periods in painting

A. Glory and grandeur: The classical background.

B. Earth, heaven, and hell; man and mystery in the Middle Ages.

C. The world rediscovered: the early Renaissance.

D. Venus revisited: Classical myths in the Renaissance.

E. The world in order: The high Renaissance.

F. The world triumphant: The baroque.

G. The world dividing: The 18th century.

H. The war of illusions: Classicism vs. Romanticism.

I. The quick and the dead: Realism vs. the Salon.

J. Summer idyl: The flowering of Impressionism.

K. Painting in transition: Precursors of Modern art.

L. Actaeon and the atom: Art in the contemporary world.