This is a visual companion to the many narrative histories of art. Using colour reproductions, maps and other illustrations, it illuminates all the movements, trends and artists that have infludenced Western artistic tradition for more than 2000 years. Edited by a team of distinguished art historians, arranged chronologically and grouped by period and style, this volume fixes art history to actual sites, with the intention of making it easier for students, historians and art lovers to make sense of the vast waves of artistic movement.