About this Textbook

This Open Educational Resource (OER) was developed for use in introductory-level survey courses in Art History at Palo Alto College.

The majority of this text and related contents are adapted from Smarthistory and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. This license allows you to remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as you credit this original source for the creation and license the new creation under identical terms. If you reuse this content elsewhere, in order to comply with the attribution requirements of the license please attribute the original source to Palo Alto College. For specific page and image credits, please refer to the appropriate sections at the end of the textbook.

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Editor: Aaron J Smith, M.A.

Publication Date: 2023

Cover Image: Pediment Sculptures from the Temple of Aphaia; West Pediment, Right Side (Oblique). Photo Credit: Steven Zucker: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0