The invention of British art

Contents

The horse and the sun, 12,000 BCE-1 CE -- What have the Romans ever done for us? 1 CE-c. 410 -- The Anglo-Saxonness of Anglo Saxon art, c. 410-c. 800 -- The vikings: art and the state, c. 800-c. 1066 -- The Normans, art and the church, 1066-1220 -- Henry III, curatory king, 1220-1272 -- The black death: art and memory, c.1300-1399 -- The Renaissance comes to Britain, 1400-1509 -- Holbein, the Reformation and the discovery of portraiture, 1509-1547 -- Elizabethan isolation: a new religion, a new church? 1547-1603 -- Showtime: the Stuarts and Van Dyck, 1603-1630s -- The culture war, 1630s-1649 -- 'Resurgam': restoration and renovation, 1649-1715 -- Hogarth and the search for passion, 1715-1768 -- In Apollo's shadow: from neo-classicism to romanticism -- The emergence of landscape: 'truth for his soul' -- Epilogue: the fire king.