Janetta Rebold Benton is the Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University, NY. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar Awards, to China in 2018 and Russia in 2012, and previously lived in Paris. Dr. Benton has presented subscription seminars at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, since 1988 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 1988-2011, and lectures elsewhere in the US, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Benton holds degrees from Harvard University, MDP diploma; Brown University, Ph.D.; George Washington University, MA; and Cornell University, BFA. How to Understand Art is her ninth book.

• 1. Early Christian and Byzantine Art 2. Art of the Early Middle Ages 3. Romanesque Art in Central France and Along the Pilgrimage Roads 4. Romanesque Art in Southern and Western France 5. Romanesque Art Outside France 6. Romanesque Sculpture, Decorative Arts and Manuscript Illumination 7. Early, Gothic Art in France 8. Late Gothic Art in France 9. Gothic Art Outside France 10. Gothic Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Manuscript Illumination and Painting 11. Art in Daily Life

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