Gardner''s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective

Author Biography: Fred S. Kleiner (Ph.D., Columbia University) is the author or co-author of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE WESTERN HISTORY, as well as the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th editions of ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, and more than a hundred publications on Greek and Roman art and architecture, including A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART, also published by Wadsworth. He has taught the art history survey course for more than three decades, first at the University of Virginia and, since 1978, at Boston University, where he is currently Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture. From 1985 to 1998, he was Editor-in-Chief of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY. See more