Product Description: Completely rewritten and reorganized, this groundbreaking edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art...read more

Product Description: 0135006333 / 9780135006337 Janson's History of Art: Western Tradition, Volume 2 Value Package (includes VangoNotes Access)   Package consists of:    0131934724 / 9780131934726 Janson's History of Art: Western Tradition, Volume 2 0136017851 / 9780136017851 VangoNotes Coupo...read more

Product Description: Designed to be a one-stop resource for students to keep their notes and information in order, ArtNotes is portable and easy to use. Organized by the chapters found in Janson, this notebook contains the caption for every image, line drawings, maps, and small reproductions of key images along with space provided for in-class note-taking...read more

For courses in the History of Art.   Completely rewritten and reorganized, this groundbreaking edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art.   Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Seventh Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist.  Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson’s text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson’s History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars.   The new Seventh Edition introduces the authorship of six distinguished specialists narrating the history of art for today’s students.  The contribution of multiple authors allows an expert's understanding to permeate each and every part of the text with a currency in art historical thinking and an enhanced discussion of context. The result is a 

Product Description: The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult.

Product Description: This book offers the first comprehensive study of the funerary monuments made for the Roman emperors. These monuments, which include the Mausoleum of Augustus, Trajan's Column, and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, are among the best known and most extensively excavated and documented structures of Roman antiquity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)