[v.1] Glory and grandeur: The classical background.
[v.2] Earth, heaven, and hell; man and mystery in the Middle Ages.
[v.3] The world rediscovered: the early Renaissance.
[v.4] Venus revisited: Classical myths in the Renaissance.
[v.5] The world in order: The high Renaissance.
[v.6] The world triumphant: The baroque.
[v.7] The world dividing: The 18th century.
[v.8] The war of illusions: Classicism vs. Romanticism.
[v.9] The quick and the dead: Realism vs. the Salon.
[v.10] Summer idyl: The flowering of Impressionism.
[v.11] Painting in transition: Precursors of Modern art.
[v.12] Actaeon and the atom: Art in the contemporary world.
