History of art in the Western tradition from 20,000 BC. to the fourth century AD, from the emergence of human beings in the Paleolithic Age to the developments of civilization in the Near East, Egypt, and the Aegean; the flowering of the classical age in Greece; and the rise of the Roman Empire to the flourishing of Christianity under the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD. The course includes the close study of the Arts of the Ancient World in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Menil Collection.
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