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2010s
2015 in art – Death of Milton Hebald, Jane Wilson, Walter Liedtke, Tomie Ohtake, Carel Visser, William King, Michael Graves, Paule Anglim, Sargy Mann, Lars Tunbjörk, Judith Malina, Menashe Kadishman, Chris Burden, Rachel Rosenthal, Mary Ellen Mark, Miriam Schapiro, David Aronson, Ingrid Sischy, Sally Gross, Melva Bucksbaum, Nelson Shanks, John Perreault, Brian Sewell, Paul Reed, Wojciech Fangor
2014 in art – Death of R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., Madeline Gins, Douglas Davis, René Ricard, Joan Mondale, Nancy Holt, Terry Adkins, Lyman Kipp, Leee Black Childers, Alan Davie, Maria Lassnig, Elaine Sturtevant, H. R. Giger, Ultra Violet, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, On Kawara, Otto Piene, Sam Hunter, Edward Leffingwell, Marjorie Strider, Wynn Chamberlain, Jane Freilicher
2013 in art – Death of – Ted Godwin, Ada Louise Huxtable, Alden Mason, Richard Artschwager, William Perehudoff, Thomas McEvilley, Merton Simpson, Carlos Villa, Zao Wou Ki, David Hayes, Taylor Mead, Thomas M. Messer, Fred Mitchell, Ganesh Pyne, Sarah Charlesworth, Bert Stern, John B. Hightower, Ronnie Cutrone, Walter De Maria, Ruth Asawa, Stephen Antonakos, John Bellany, Jack Beal, Ellen Lanyon, Deborah Turbeville, Sir Anthony Caro, Arthur Danto, Lou Reed, Frank Lobdell, Chryssa
2012 in art – Death of – Jan Groover, Dorothea Tanning, Mike Kelley, Antoni Tàpies, Theophilus Brown, Anita Steckel, Kenneth Price, Hilton Kramer, Elizabeth Catlett, Louis le Brocquy, John Golding, Bram Bogart, Paul Jenkins, Georges Mathieu, LeRoy Neiman, Mary Fedden, Ivan Karp, Herbert Vogel, Karl Benjamin, Robert Hughes, Michael Asher, Will Barnet, William Turnbull, Jeffrey Potter, Edward Meneeley
2011 in art – Death of B. H. Friedman, Ellen Stewart, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Hedda Sterne, John McCracken, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, M. F. Husain, Jack Smith, Thomas N. Armstrong III, Robert Miller, Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Budd Hopkins, Jeanette Ingberman, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Mueller, Pat Passlof, Gerald Laing, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler
2010 in art – Death of Kenneth Noland, Elaine Hamilton-O’Neal, Robert Natkin, Purvis Young, Deborah Remington, Avigdor Arikha, Craig Kauffman, Shusaku Arakawa, Dennis Hopper, Lester Johnson, Louise Bourgeois, Sigmar Polke, Paul Thiebaud, Doug Ohlson, Nicolas Carone, Corneille, Ralph T. Coe, Stephen Pace, Robert Goodnough, Sylvia Sleigh, Jack Levine, Nathan Oliveira, Nassos Daphnis, Don Van Vliet, Roy Neuberger
2000s
2009 in art – Death of Coosje van Bruggen, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Kanovitz, Max Neuhaus, Ernest Trova, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Colescott, Dash Snow, Merce Cunningham, Tony Rosenthal, Hyman Bloom, Barry Flanagan, Richard Merkin, Charles Seliger, Nancy Spero, Roy DeCarava, Robert Borgatta, Irving Kriesberg, Jeanne-Claude, Peter Forakis, Thomas Hoving
2008 in art – Death of William Brice, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, John Plumb, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet, Grace Hartigan, Willoughby Sharp, Robert Graham
2007 in art – Death of Dan Christensen, Jules Olitski, Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Salvatore Scarpitta, Elizabeth Murray, Edward Avedisian, André Emmerich, Lenore Tawney, R. B. Kitaj, Ileana Sonnabend, Paul Brach, Robert Kulicke, Michael Goldberg, Ismail Gulgee, Herman Rose
2006 in art – Death of Mimmo Rotella, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard, Karel Appel, Jason Rhoades, Marcia Tucker, Robert Rosenblum
2005 in art – Death of Philip Johnson, former gallerist and curator David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, Neil Welliver, R. C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, Clement Meadmore, and Arman; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York’s Central Park;
2004 in art – Death of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Agnes Martin, Tom Wesselmann, Leon Golub, Cleve Gray
2003 in art – Death of Al Hirschfeld, Kirk Varnedoe, Wally Hedrick, Emerson Woelffer, Dorothy Miller, Lynn Chadwick
2002 in art – Death of Inge Morath, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice
2001 in art – Death of Balthus, David Sylvester, Mercedes Matter, O. Winston Link, Hollis Sigler
2000 in art – Death of Jacob Lawrence, Stanley Boxer, Leonard Baskin, Gregory Gillespie;
1990s
1999 in art – Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick, Stephen Greene
1998 in art – Death of Dick Bellamy, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, John Krushenick, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize
1997 in art – Death of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Golden, Theodoros Stamos
1996 in art – Death of Dan Flavin, William Copley
1995 in art – Death of Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves, Daniel Robbins
1994 in art – Death of Sam Francis, Robert Doisneau, Donald Judd, Clement Greenberg, Henry Geldzahler
1993 in art – Death of Richard Diebenkorn, Hannah Wilke, Leonard Bocour, Robert De Niro, Sr.; Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize
1992 in art – Death of Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, John Cage, Peyo; Jeff Koons debuts Topiary Puppy
1991 in art – Death of Robert Motherwell, Jean Tinguely, Berenice Abbott
1990 in art – Death of Keith Haring, Joan Brown
1980s
1989 in art – Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo, Sidney Janis
1988 in art – Death of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson
1987 in art – Death of Andy Warhol, Raphael Soyer; Christian Lacroix opens his Paris fashion house
1986 in art – Death of Henry Moore, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jane Frank
1985 in art – Death of Marc Chagall, Charles Saatchi‘s collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
1984 in art – Death of Jimmy Ernst, Ansel Adams, Lee Krasner
1983 in art – Death of Hergé, Kenneth Clark, Joan Miró
1982 in art – Death of Wifredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
1981 in art – Death of Isaac Soyer; Birth of Miru Kim
1980 in art – Death of Albert Kotin, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Oskar Kokoschka; Pablo Picasso major retrospective exhibition at Museum of Modern Art (New York)
1970s
1979 in art – Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Delaunay
1978 in art – Death of Norman Rockwell
1977 in art – Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo. Centre Pompidou opens
1976 in art – Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham
1975 in art – Death of Thomas Hart Benton
1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb
1973 in art – Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the first Whitney Biennial
1972 in art – Death of Joseph Cornell
1971 in art – Death of I. Rice Pereira
1970 in art – Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse
1960s
1969 in art – Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
1968 in art – Death of Marcel Duchamp, Kees van Dongen. Birth of John Trobaugh
1967 in art – Death of Edward Hopper, René Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
1966 in art – Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology.
1965 in art – Death of Milton Avery, David Smith (sculptor), Le Corbusier, Birth of Damien Hirst
1964 in art – Death of Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis
1963 in art – Death of Georges Braque; Pop Art becomes increasingly popular; Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread
1962 in art – Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, International exhibition of The New Realists in New York
1961 in art – Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis
1960 in art – Death of David Park, Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, as public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular
1950s
1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings
1957 in art – Death of Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats
1956 in art – Death of Jackson Pollock
1955 in art – Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
1954 in art – Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz
1953 in art – Death of John Marin
1952 in art – Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction
1951 in art – Death of Wols, Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of abstract expressionism.
1950 in art – Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm [1]
1940s
1949 in art – Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II
1948 in art – Birth of Eric Fischl, Hollis Sigler, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
1947 in art – Birth of Ronnie Landfield, Death of Pierre Bonnard, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century gallery
1946 in art – Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, Death of Arthur Dove
1945 in art – Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato
1944 in art – Birth of Odd Nerdrum, death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
1943 in art – Death of Chaim Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
1942 in art – Birth of Dan Christensen, Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century gallery
1941 in art – Birth of Bruce Nauman, Dale Chihuly, Death of Robert Delaunay
1940 in art – Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard
1930s
1939 in art – Birth of Spider Martin
1938 in art – Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, Death of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Glackens
1937 in art – Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica and The Weeping Woman; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist
1936 in art – Birth of Richard Estes, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella,
1935 in art – Birth of Jim Dine, Don McCullin, Death of Charles Demuth, Paul Signac
1934 in art – Birth of Brian O’Doherty aka Patrick Ireland
1933 in art – Birth of Sam Gilliam, Yoko Ono, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin
1932 in art – Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell
1931 in art – Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann, Salvador Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory
1930 in art – Birth of Jasper Johns, Death of Jules Pascin, Grant Wood paints American Gothic
1920s
1929 in art – Birth of Jules Feiffer, Claes Oldenburg, Nicholas Krushenick, Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo, the Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City, René Magritte produces La trahison des images
1928 in art – Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt
1927 in art – Birth of John Chamberlain, Wolf Kahn
1926 in art – Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet
1925 in art – Death of George Bellows, Birth of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell
1924 in art – Birth of Kenneth Noland, André Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal
1923 in art – Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Duchamp completes The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
1922 in art – Birth of Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Klee produces Twittering Machine
1921 in art – Piet Mondrian completes Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
1920 in art – Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Elaine Hamilton-O’Neal, Death of Amedeo Modigliani
1910s
1919 in art – Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus
1918 in art – Birth of Elaine de Kooning, Jane Frank; Death of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
1917 in art – Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth; Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Marcel Duchamp produces Fountain
1916 in art – Birth of Louis le Brocquy, Death of Thomas Eakins; Dadaism started in Zürich
1915 in art – Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden
1914 in art – Birth of Nicolas de Staël, O. Winston Link
1913 in art – Birth of Wols, Birth of Robert Capa, Ad Reinhardt, The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1912 in art – Birth of Morris Louis, Robert Doisneau, Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin, Tony Smith
1911 in art
1910 in art – Birth of Franz Kline, Death of Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer
1900s
1909 in art – Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism
1908 in art – Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School first exhibit
1907 in art – Birth of Frida Kahlo, Leo Castelli, Charles Alston, Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1906 in art – Henri Matisse paints Le bonheur de vivre; Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith
1905 in art – Birth of Ruth Bernhard, Barnett Newman, Fauvists first exhibit; Henri Matisse paints Woman with a Hat
1904 in art – Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí
1903 in art – Birth of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Graham Sutherland, Joseph Cornell, Death of Paul Gauguin, Hans Gude, Camille Pissarro, James McNeill Whistler, First Salon d’Automne
1902 in art – Birth of Ansel Adams, I. Rice Pereira, Death of Albert Bierstadt, Death of James Tissot, Rodin‘s The Thinker cast
1901 in art – Birth of Alberto Giacometti, Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso’s Blue Period begins
1900 in art – Birth of Yves Tanguy, Death of Frederic Edwin Church
1890s
1899 in art – Death of Alfred Sisley
1898 in art – Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, René Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim
1897 in art – Paul Gauguin paints Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
1896 in art – Death of John Everett Millais
1895 in art – Death of Berthe Morisot
1894 in art – Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, Death of Gustave Caillebotte
1893 in art – Birth of Joan Miró, Chaim Soutine, Edvard Munch completes The Scream
1892 in art – Paul Gauguin paints When Will You Marry?; Birth of Stuart Davis
1891 in art – Death of Georges-Pierre Seurat, Birth of Max Ernst, Otto Dix, George Ault
1890 in art – Death of Vincent van Gogh, Birth of Giorgio Morandi, Paul Strand, Egon Schiele, Naum Gabo
1880s
1889 in art – Birth of Thomas Hart Benton, Rodin‘s The Burghers of Calais cast
1888 in art – Birth of Joseph Csaky, Josef Albers, Seán Keating, Giorgio de Chirico, Vincent van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema paints The Roses of Heliogabalus
1887 in art – Birth of Georgia O’Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko, Andrew Dasburg, August Macke
1886 in art – Birth of Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Clément Serveau
1885 in art – Birth of Jules Pascin, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Roger de La Fresnaye
1884 in art – Birth of Amedeo Modigliani, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Georges Seurat paints Bathers at Asnières
1883 in art – Birth of Jean Metzinger, Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Gino Severini, Death of Édouard Manet
1882 in art – Birth of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georges Braque, Auguste Herbin, Umberto Boccioni. Édouard Manet paints A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1881 in art – Birth of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Henri Le Fauconnier, Carlo Carrà, Max Pechstein, Albert Gleizes
1880 in art – Birth of Hans Hofmann, Jacob Epstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Derain, Arthur Dove, Tobeen. Death of Anselm Feuerbach, Anton Mauve completes Changing Pasture
1870s
1879 in art – Birth of Edward Steichen, Paul Klee
1878 in art – Birth of Augustus John, Mary Cassatt paints Portrait of the Artist, James Whistler sues John Ruskin for libel
1877 in art – Birth of Marsden Hartley, Kees van Dongen, Death of Gustave Courbet
1876 in art – Birth of August Sander
1875 in art – Death of Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1874 in art – First Impressionist exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon
1873 in art – Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes
1872 in art – Birth of Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise
1871 in art – Birth of Jack Butler Yeats, Death of Paul Kane, Whistler’s Mother
1870 in art – Birth of William Glackens, John Marin
1860s
1869 in art – Birth of Henri Matisse, La Grenouillère (Monet)
1868 in art – Birth of Édouard Vuillard
1867 in art – Birth of Pierre Bonnard, Frank Lloyd Wright; Edgar Degas completes Portrait of the Bellelli Family
1866 in art – Birth of Wassily Kandinsky
1865 in art – Work (Ford Madox Brown) completed
1864 in art – Birth of Toulouse-Lautrec
1863 in art – Birth of Edvard Munch, Paul Signac, Death of Eugène Delacroix; Manet completes Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia and exhibits them at the Salon des Refusés to public ridicule and artistic admiration
1862 in art – Birth of Gustav Klimt, The Railway Station (W. P. Frith), The Turkish Bath (Ingres)
1861 in art – Manet first accepted by Salon (Paris)
1860 in art – Birth of Walter Sickert, Grandma Moses
1850s
1859 in art – Birth of Georges-Pierre Seurat
1858 in art – Death of Hiroshige
1857 in art – Birth of Eugène Atget
1856 in art – Ingres completes Madame Moitessier
1855 in art – Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist’s Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating public outrage and artistic admiration.
1854 in art – La rencontre (Courbet), Ramsgate Sands (Frith), The Light of the World (Holman Hunt)
1853 in art – Birth of Vincent van Gogh, Ingres completes Princesse Albert de Broglie
1852 in art – Death of John Vanderlyn, John Everett Millais completes Ophelia
1851 in art – Death of J. M. W. Turner
1850 in art – Jean-François Millet completes The Sower
1840s
1849 in art – Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood first exhibits
1848 in art – Birth of Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Death of Thomas Cole
1847 in art – Birth of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ralph Albert Blakelock
1846 in art
1845 in art
1844 in art – Birth of Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau, J. M. W. Turner paints Rain, Steam and Speed
1843 in art
1842 in art – J. M. W. Turner paints Peace – Burial at Sea
1841 in art – Birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Collapsible zinc oil paint tube invented
1840 in art – Birth of Claude Monet; Death of Caspar David Friedrich
1830s
1839 in art – Birth of Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, J. M. W. Turner paints The Fighting Temeraire
1838 in art
1837 in art – Death of John Constable
1836 in art – Birth of Winslow Homer
1835 in art –
1834 in art – Birth of Edgar Degas, James McNeill Whistler
1833 in art –
1832 in art – Birth of Édouard Manet
1831 in art
1830 in art – Birth of Camille Pissarro, Albert Bierstadt, Eugène Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People; Hokusai paints The Great Wave off Kanagawa
1820s
1829 in art – Birth of Anselm Feuerbach, John Everett Millais
1828 in art – Death of Francisco Goya
1827 in art – Death of William Blake
1826 in art – Birth of Frederic Edwin Church
1825 in art – Birth of Hans Gude, Death of Jacques-Louis David
1824 in art – Death of Théodore Géricault
1823 in art
1822 in art
1821 in art – John Constable completes The Hay Wain
1820 in art
1810s
1819 in art – Birth of Gustave Courbet; Théodore Géricault paints The Raft of the Medusa,
1818 in art
1817 in art
1816 in art
1815 in art
1814 in art – Francisco Goya paints the The Third of May 1808, Birth of Jean-François Millet
1813 in art –
1812 in art
1811 in art –
1810 in art – Francisco Goya begins painting his 82-piece series The Disasters of War; Birth of: Paul Kane
1800s
1809 in art –
1808 in art – William Blake completes Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve. Birth of Honoré Daumier
1807 in art
1806 in art – Death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1805 in art
1804 in art
1803 in art –
1802 in art – Death of Thomas Girtin
1801 in art – Birth of Thomas Cole
1800 in art – Francisco Goya paints the The Naked Maja
1790s
1799 in art
1798 in art – Birth of Eugène Delacroix
1797 in art
1796 in art – Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1795 in art
1794 in art
1793 in art – Jacques-Louis David paints The Death of Marat
1792 in art
1791 in art – Birth of Théodore Géricault
1790 in art – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered.
1780s
1789 in art
1788 in art – Death of Thomas Gainsborough
1787 in art
1786 in art –
1785 in art –
1784 in art
1783 in art
1782 in art –
1781 in art
1780 in art – Birth of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1770s
1779 in art – Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
1778 in art
1777 in art
1776 in art – Births of John Vanderlyn, John Constable
1775 in art – Birth of J. M. W. Turner
1774 in art – Birth of Caspar David Friedrich
1773 in art
1772 in art
1771 in art
1770 in art – Death of François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy
1760s
1769 in art
1768 in art
1767 in art
1766 in art
1765 in art
1764 in art –
1763 in art
1762 in art
1761 in art – Birth of John Opie
1760 in art
1750s
1759 in art
1758 in art
1757 in art – Birth of William Blake
1756 in art
1755 in art
1754 in art
1753 in art
1752 in art
1751 in art
1750 in art – Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
1740s
1749 in art –
1748 in art – Birth of Jacques-Louis David
1747 in art –
1746 in art – Birth of Francisco Goya, François-André Vincent
1745 in art
1744 in art –
1743 in art
1742 in art
1741 in art –
1740 in art –
1730s
1739 in art
1738 in art
1737 in art
1736 in art
1735 in art –
1734 in art
1733 in art Death of Nicolas Coustou
1732 in art Birth of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1731 in art
1730 in art
1720s
1729 in art
1728 in art
1727 in art – Birth of Thomas Gainsborough
1726 in art
1725 in art
1724 in art –
1723 in art
1722 in art –
1721 in art – Death of Antoine Watteau
1720 in art
1710s
1719 in art – Death: Christoph Ludwig Agricola, Birth: Charles van Loo
1718 in art – Birth of Alexander Roslin
1717 in art
1716 in art – Birth of Joseph-Marie Vien
1715 in art – Death of François Girardon
1714 in art –
1713 in art – Birth: František Prokyš, Allan Ramsay, Richard Wilson,
1712 in art – Birth: Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
1711 in art – Birth: Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711-1793)
1710 in art
1700s
1709 in art – Death: Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo
1708 in art – Death: Ludolf Bakhuysen, Birth: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
1707 in art – Death: Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth: William Hoare, Van Loo
1706 in art – Death: Luo Mu,
1705 in art – Death: Zhu Da, Birth: Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765)
1704 in art
1703 in art – Birth of François Boucher
1702 in art – Birth of Carlo Marchionni; end of Dutch Golden Age painting
1701 in art – Birth of Pietro Longhi, Thomas Hudson
1700 in art – Birth of Charles-Joseph Natoire, Death of Pietro Santi Bartoli; end of Flemish Baroque painting
1690s
1699 in art – Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
1698 in art
1697 in art
1696 in art – Birth of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1695 in art
1694 in art
1693 in art
1692 in art
1691 in art
1690 in art – Death of David Teniers the Younger
1680s
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1688 in art –
1687 in art –
1686 in art –
1685 in art –
1684 in art – Birth of Antoine Watteau
1683 in art –
1682 in art –
1681 in art –
1680 in art – Death of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor/architect
1670s
1679 in art –
1678 in art –
1677 in art –
1676 in art –
1675 in art – Death of Johannes Vermeer
1674 in art – Death of Kanō Tan’yū
1673 in art –
1672 in art –
1671 in art –
1670 in art –
1660s
1669 in art – Death of Rembrandt
1668 in art –
1667 in art
1666 in art – Death of Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer paints Girl with a Pearl Earring
1665 in art – Death of Nicolas Poussin
1664 in art
1663 in art
1662 in art
1661 in art
1660 in art – Death of Diego Velázquez,
1650s
1659 in art – Rembrandt completes Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
1658 in art
1657 in art
1656 in art – Diego Velázquez completes Las Meninas
1655 in art
1654 in art – Death of Alessandro Algardi
1653 in art –
1652 in art – Death of José Ribera
1651 in art – Diego Velázquez completes the Rokeby Venus
1650 in art
1640s
1649 in art – Death of David Teniers the Elder
1648 in art
1647 in art – Birth of Jean Jouvenet
1646 in art
1645 in art
1644 in art
1643 in art –
1642 in art – Rembrandt completes the Night Watch, Death of Guido Reni
1641 in art
1640 in art – Death of Peter Paul Rubens
1630s
1639 in art
1638 in art – Death of Pieter Brueghel the Younger
1637 in art
1636 in art
1635 in art
1634 in art
1633 in art – Anthony van Dyck completes Self-portrait with a Sunflower
1632 in art – Birth of Johannes Vermeer
1631 in art
1630 in art – Diego Velázquez completes Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano
1620s
1629 in art
1628 in art
1627 in art
1626 in art
1625 in art
1624 in art – Frans Hals paints the Laughing Cavalier
1623 in art
1622 in art – Birth of Luo Mu (1622-1706)
1621 in art
1620 in art
1610s
1619 in art – Birth of Charles Le Brun
1618 in art – Velázquez paints The Waterseller of Seville
1617 in art – Birth of Bartolomé Estéban Murillo
1616 in art
1615 in art – Death of Hans von Aachen
1614 in art – Death of El Greco
1613 in art
1612 in art
1611 in art
1610 in art – Birth of David Teniers the Younger; Death of Caravaggio
1600s
1609 in art
1608 in art
1607 in art
1606 in art – Birth of Rembrandt
1605 in art
1604 in art
1603 in art
1602 in art
1601 in art
1600 in art – El Greco completes View of Toledo, Caravaggio completes Crucifixion of St. Peter; start of Baroque art period
1590s
1599 in art – Birth of Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck
1598 in art – Birth of Alessandro Algardi, Francisco de Zurbarán
1597 in art
1596 in art
1595 in art
1594 in art – Birth of Nicolas Poussin; Death of Tintoretto
1593 in art – Birth of Jacob Jordaens; Death of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1592 in art
1591 in art
1590 in art
1580s
1589 in art
1588 in art – Birth of Hendrick ter Brugghen
1587 in art
1586 in art
1585 in art – start of Flemish Baroque painting
1584 in art – start of Dutch Golden Age painting
1583 in art
1582 in art – Birth of David Teniers the Elder
1581 in art
1580 in art – Birth of Frans Hals; end of Mannerism art period in Italy
1570s
1579 in art
1578 in art
1577 in art – Birth of Peter Paul Rubens
1576 in art – Death of Titian
1575 in art – Birth of Guido Reni
1574 in art
1573 in art
1572 in art – Deaths of François Clouet, Agnolo di Cosimo
1571 in art – Birth of Caravaggio, Death of Niccolò dell’Abbate, Benvenuto Cellini
1570 in art
1560s
1569 in art – Death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1568 in art
1567 in art –
1566 in art
1565 in art
1564 in art – Birth of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Death of Michelangelo
1563 in art
1562 in art
1561 in art
1560 in art
1550s
1559 in art –
1558 in art –
1557 in art –
1556 in art – Death of Girolamo da Carpi
1555 in art –
1554 in art –
1553 in art –
1552 in art – Birth of Hans von Aachen
1551 in art –
1550 in art –
1540s
1549 in art –
1548 in art – Tintoretto completes St Mark’s Body Brought to Venice
1547 in art –
1546 in art –
1545 in art –
1544 in art –
1543 in art – Death of Hans Holbein the Younger
1542 in art –
1541 in art – Michelangelo completes painting The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, Birth of El Greco
1540 in art –
1530s
1539 in art –
1538 in art – Death of Hans Dürer
1537 in art –
1536 in art –
1535 in art –
1534 in art –
1533 in art –
1532 in art –
1531 in art –
1530 in art –
1520s
1529 in art – Birth of Paolo Veronese
1528 in art – Death of Matthias Grünewald
1527 in art – Birth of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Death of Niccolò Machiavelli; Hans Holbein the Younger completes his Portrait of Sir Thomas More
1526 in art
1525 in art – Birth of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1524 in art
1523 in art
1522 in art
1521 in art
1520 in art – Death of Raphael; start of Mannerism art period
1510s
1519 in art – Death of Leonardo da Vinci
1518 in art – Birth of Tintoretto
1517 in art
1516 in art – Death of Hieronymus Bosch
1515 in art – Matthias Grünewald completes the Isenheim Altarpiece
1514 in art
1513 in art
1512 in art – Michelangelo completes painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Birth of Niccolò dell’Abbate
1511 in art
1510 in art – Birth of François Clouet, Death of Sandro Botticelli
1500s
1509 in art
1508 in art
1507 in art
1506 in art – Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa (approximately)
1505 in art
1504 in art – Michelangelo completes the David, Hieronymus Bosch completes The Garden of Earthly Delights
1503 in art – Birth of Agnolo di Cosimo
1502 in art
1501 in art – Birth of Girolamo da Carpi
1500 in art – Birth of Benvenuto Cellini
1490s
1499 in art – Michelangelo completes the Pietà
1498 in art – Leonardo da Vinci completes The Last Supper
1497 in art – Birth of Hans Holbein the Younger
1496 in art
1495 in art – Tilman Riemenschneider sculpts Seated Bishop
1494 in art – Birth of Ambrosius Holbein, Jacopo Pontormo; Death of Domenico Ghirlandaio
1493 in art
1492 in art – Death of Piero della Francesca
1491 in art
1490 in art – Birth of Hans Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch completes the Haywain Triptych
1480s
1489 in art – Death of Simon Marmion
1488 in art
1487 in art
1486 in art
1485 in art – Birth of Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian,
1484 in art
1483 in art – Birth of Raphael
1482 in art
1481 in art – Death of Jean Fouquet
1480 in art – Birth of Hans Baldung
1470s
1479 in art
1478 in art
1477 in art
1476 in art
1475 in art – Birth of Michelangelo, death of Paolo Uccello
1474 in art
1473 in art
1472 in art
1471 in art
1470 in art – Paolo Uccello completes Saint George and the Dragon; Birth of Matthias Grünewald
1460s
1469 in art
1468 in art
1467 in art
1466 in art – Death of Donatello
1465 in art
1464 in art – Death of Rogier van der Weyden
1463 in art
1462 in art
1461 in art
1460 in art – Paolo Uccello completes The Battle of San Romano
1450s
1459 in art
1458 in art
1457 in art
1456 in art
1455 in art – Death of Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Ghiberti
1454 in art
1453 in art
1452 in art – The Braque Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden; Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
1451 in art – Fra Angelico completes the art of the Niccoline Chapel
1450 in art – Birth of Hieronymus Bosch, Death of Sassetta, Jean Fouquet completes Melun Diptych, Andrea del Castagno, The Youthful David or David with Goliath’s Head
1440s
1449 in art – Birth of Domenico Ghirlandaio
1448 in art
1447 in art – Death of Masolino da Panicale
1446 in art
1445 in art – The Seven Sacraments Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden; Birth of Sandro Botticelli
1444 in art – The Miraculous Draft of Fishes by Paolo Uccello; Death of Robert Campin
1443 in art
1442 in art
1441 in art – Death of Jan van Eyck
1440 in art – Robert Campin completes The Annunciation
1430s
1439 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of Margaret van Eyck
1438 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Madonna in the Church; Fra Angelico completes the San Marco Altarpiece
1437 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Dresden Triptych
1436 in art – Paolo Uccello completes the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
1435 in art – The Werl Triptych by Robert Campin; The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin by Jan van Eyck; The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden
1434 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Arnolfini Portrait, The Annunciation, and The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele
1433 in art – Portrait of a Man in a Turban by Jan van Eyck; The Annunciation of Cortona by Fra Angelico
1432 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Ghent Altarpiece and Léal Souvenir; Fra Angelico completes the Deposition of Christ
1431 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati; Birth of Andrea Mantegna
1430 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon and the Crucifixion and Last Judgment diptych; Birth of Carlo Crivelli, Hans Memling, end of Medieval art art period
1420s
1429 in art
1428 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of Isabella of Portugal; Death of Masaccio
1427 in art
1426 in art – Sassetta completes St. Anthony Beaten by Devils
1425 in art – The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin; Birth of Simon Marmion
1424 in art – Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale; Fra Angelico completes the Fiesole Altarpiece
1423 in art
1422 in art
1421 in art
1420 in art – Jan van Eyck is estimated to have completed Woman Bathing; Birth of Piero della Francesca, Jean Fouquet
1410s
1419 in art
1418 in art
1417 in art – Birth of Fra Angelico
1416 in art
1415 in art
1414 in art
1413 in art
1412 in art
1411 in art
1410 in art – The Three Marys at the Tomb by Hubert van Eyck; Death of Theophanes the Greek
1400s
1409 in art
1408 in art – The Transfiguration of Jesus by Theophanes the Greek; David (Donatello) by Donatello
1407 in art
1406 in artBirth of Fillipo Lippi
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1405 in art
1404 in art
1403 in art
1402 in art
1401 in art – Birth of Masaccio
1400 in art – Birth of Bernat Martorell, Start of Quattrocento
1390s
1399 in art – Birth of Rogier van der Weyden, Completion of the Wilton Diptych (Artist unknown)
1398 in art – Birth of Konrad Witz
1397 in art – Birth of Paolo Uccello
1396 in art
1395 in art – Birth of Fra Angelico
1394 in art
1393 in art
1392 in art – Birth of Sassetta
1391 in art
1390 in art
1380s
1389 in art
1388 in art
1387 in art
1386 in art – Birth of Donatello
1385 in art – Birth of Jan van Eyck
1384 in art
1383 in art – Birth of Masolino da Panicale
1382 in art
1381 in art – Jaime Serra completes Descent into Hell
1380 in art
1370s
1379 in art
1378 in art – Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti
1377 in art
1376 in art
1375 in art – Birth of Robert Campin
1374 in art – Death of Petrarch
1373 in art
1372 in art
1371 in art
1370 in art
1360s
1369 in art
1368 in art
1367 in art
1366 in art – Birth of Hubert van Eyck
1365 in art
1364 in art
1363 in art
1362 in art
1361 in art
1360 in art
1350s
1359 in art
1358 in art
1357 in art
1356 in art
1355 in art – Birth of Melchior Broederlam
1354 in art
1353 in art
1352 in art
1351 in art
1350 in art
1340s
1349 in art
1348 in art – Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang; Death of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Pietro Lorenzetti
1347 in art
1346 in art
1345 in art
1344 in art – Death of Simone Martini
1343 in art
1342 in art
1341 in art
1340 in art – Birth of Theophanes the Greek
1330s
1339 in art – The Allegory of Good and Bad Government is finished by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
1338 in art
1337 in art – Death of Giotto di Bondone
1336 in art
1335 in art
1334 in art
1333 in art – The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus
1332 in art
1331 in art
1330 in art
1320s
1329 in art
1328 in art
1327 in art
1326 in art
1325 in art – Birth of Puccio Capanna
1324 in art
1323 in art
1322 in art
1321 in art
1320 in art
1310s
1319 in art – Death of Duccio di Buoninsegna
1318 in art
1317 in art
1316 in art
1315 in art
1314 in art
1313 in art
1312 in art
1311 in art
1310 in art
1300s
1309 in art
1308 in art – Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna
1307 in art
1306 in art
1305 in art – The Scrovegni Chapel frescoes are made by Giotto
1304 in art – Birth of Petrarch
1303 in art
1302 in art – Death of Cimabue (exact date unknown)
1301 in art
1300 in art
1290s
1299 in art
1298 in art
1297 in art
1296 in art
1295 in art
1294 in art
1293 in art
1292 in art
1291 in art
1290 in art – Birth of Ambrogio Lorenzetti
1280s
1289 in art
1288 in art
1287 in art
1286 in art
1285 in art – Rucellai Madonna by Duccio di Buoninsegnia
1284 in art – Birth of Simone Martini
1283 in art
1282 in art
1281 in art
1280 in art – Birth of Pietro Lorenzetti
1270s
1279 in art
1278 in art
1277 in art
1276 in art – Death of Coppo di Marcovaldo
1275 in art
1274 in art
1273 in art
1272 in art
1271 in art
1270 in art
1260s
1269 in art
1268 in art
1267 in art – Birth of Giotto di Bondone (exact date unknown)
1266 in art
1265 in art
1264 in art
1263 in art
1262 in art
1261 in art
1260 in art
1250s
1259 in art
1258 in art
1257 in art
1256 in art
1255 in art – Birth of Duccio di Buoninsegna
1254 in art
1253 in art
1252 in art
1251 in art
1250 in art
1240s
1249 in art – Death of Wuzhun Shifan (Chinese; (b.1178))
1248 in art
1247 in art
1246 in art
1245 in art
1244 in art
1243 in art
1242 in art
1241 in art
1240 in art – Birth of Cimabue (exact date unknown)
1230s
1239 in art – Birth of Gaddo Gaddi
1238 in art
1237 in art
1236 in art
1235 in art
1234 in art
1233 in art
1232 in art
1231 in art
1230 in art
1220s
1229 in art
1228 in art
1227 in art
1226 in art
1225 in art – Nicholas of Verdun‘s The Shrine of the Three Kings is completed; Birth of Coppo di Marcovaldo
1224 in art
1223 in art – Death of Unkei
1222 in art
1221 in art
1220 in art
1210s
1219 in art
1218 in art
1217 in art
1216 in art
1215 in art – Birth of Bonaventura Berlinghieri
1214 in art
1213 in art
1212 in art
1211 in art
1210 in art
1200s
1209 in art
1208 in art
1207 in art
1206 in art
1205 in art – The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus stained glass done for Rouen Cathedral
1204 in art
1203 in art
1202 in art
1201 in art
1200 in art
1190s
1199 in art
1198 in art
1197 in art
1196 in art
1195 in art – Birth of Xia Gui
1194 in art
1193 in art
1192 in art
1191 in art
1190 in art
1180s
1189 in art
1188 in art
1187 in art
1186 in art
1185 in art
1184 in art
1183 in art
1182 in art
1181 in art
1180 in art – Birth of Giunta Pisano
1170s
1179 in art
1178 in art – Birth of Wuzhun Shifan
1177 in art
1176 in art
1175 in art
1174 in art
1173 in art
1172 in art
1171 in art
1170 in art
1160s
1169 in art
1168 in art
1167 in art
1166 in art
1165 in art
1164 in art
1163 in art
1162 in art
1161 in art
1160 in art – Birth of Ma Yuan
1150s
1159 in art
1158 in art
1157 in art
1156 in art
1155 in art
1154 in art
1153 in art
1152 in art
1151 in art – Birth of Unkei
1150 in art
1140s
1149 in art
1148 in art
1147 in art
1146 in art
1145 in art – Death of Zhang Zeduan
1144 in art
1143 in art
1142 in art
1141 in art
1140 in art
1130s
1139 in art
1138 in art
1137 in art
1136 in art
1135 in art
1134 in art
1133 in art
1132 in art
1131 in art
1130 in art – Birth of Nicholas of Verdun
1120s
1129 in art
1128 in art
1127 in art
1126 in art
1125 in art
1124 in art – Li Tang paints Wind in the Pines Amid Ten Thousand Valleys
1123 in art
1122 in art
1121 in art
1120 in art
1110s
1119 in art – Death of Wang Ximeng
1118 in art
1117 in art
1116 in art
1115 in art
1114 in art
1113 in art – Mosaic Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki completed; Wang Ximeng completes A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
1112 in art
1111 in art
1110 in art
1100s
1109 in art
1108 in art
1107 in art
1106 in art – Death of Li Gonglin
1105 in art – Death of Huang Tingjian
1104 in art
1103 in art
1102 in art
1101 in art – Death of Su Shi
1100 in art
1090s
1099 in art
1098 in art
1097 in art
1096 in art
1095 in art
1094 in art
1093 in art
1092 in art
1091 in art
1090 in art – Death of Guo Xi
1080s
1089 in art
1088 in art
1087 in art
1086 in art
1085 in art – Zhang Zeduan finishes Along the River During the Qingming Festival
1084 in art
1083 in art
1082 in art – Birth of Huizong of Song
1081 in art
1080 in art
1070s
1079 in art – Death of Wen Tong
1078 in art
1077 in art
1076 in art
1075 in art
1074 in art – Guo Xi paints Early Spring
1073 in art
1072 in art
1071 in art
1070 in art
1060s
1069 in art
1068 in art
1067 in art
1066 in art
1065 in art
1064 in art
1063 in art
1062 in art
1061 in art – Cui Bai paints Double Happiness
1060 in art
1050s
1059 in art
1058 in art
1057 in art
1056 in art
1055 in art
1054 in art
1053 in art
1052 in art
1051 in art – Death of Xu Daoning
1050 in art
1040s
1049 in art – Birth of Li Gonglin
1048 in art
1047 in art
1046 in art
1045 in art – Birth of Huang Tingjian
1044 in art
1043 in art
1042 in art
1041 in art
1040 in art
1030s
1039 in art
1038 in art
1037 in art – Birth of Su Shi
1036 in art
1035 in art
1034 in art
1033 in art
1032 in art
1031 in art
1030 in art
1020s
1029 in art
1028 in art
1027 in art
1026 in art
1025 in art
1024 in art
1023 in art
1022 in art
1021 in art
1020 in art – Birth of Guo Xi
1010s
1019 in art – Birth of Wen Tong
1018 in art
1017 in art
1016 in art
1015 in art
1014 in art
1013 in art
1012 in art
1011 in art
1010 in art
1000s
1009 in art
1008 in art
1007 in art
1006 in art
1005 in art
1004 in art
1003 in art
1002 in art
1001 in art
1000 in art – Birth of Yi Yuanji
pre 1000
7th Century AD
634 AD – Emperor Taizon Receiving the Tibetan Envoy by Yan Liben
5th Century AD
Nymph of the Luo River by Gu Kaizhi
4th Century AD
315 AD – The Arch of Constantine is built.
3rd Century AD
203 AD – The Arch of Septimius Severus is built.
2nd Century AD
193 AD – The Column of Marcus Aurelius is constructed.
162 AD – Tuxtla Statuette
143 AD – La Mojarra Stela 1
113 AD – Trajan’s Column
1st Century BC
9 BC – Ara Pacis Augustae
57 BC – The Temple of Edfu is constructed.
2nd Century BC
180 BC – The Pergamon Altar.
5th Century BC
440 BC – The Doryphoros
460 BC – The Riace bronzes.
6th Century BC
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
8th Century BC
700 BC – Sculptures at La Venta
9th Century BC
825 BC – The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
2nd Millennium BC in art
12th Century BC – Stone sculptures at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
1264 BC in art – The Abu Simbel temples are founded.
1300s BC in art – Nefertiti Bust; the death mask and throne of Tutankhamen
1400s BC in art – Anon., Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming; The Luxor Temple is built; the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut; the astronomical ceiling of Senemut Tomb; statue of Thutmose III is built;
1500s BC in art – Mask of Agamemnon
3rd Millennium BC in art
c. 22nd Century BC – The Statues of Gudea
26th Century BC – The Great Sphinx of Giza and the Great Pyramid of Giza are built.
27th Century BC – The Pyramid of Djoser is built.
3000 BC – Stonehenge is estimated to have been constructed.
4th Millennium BC in art
The Los Millares site is constructed.
31st Century BC – The Narmer Palette
3150 BC – The Tarxien Temples are built.
3200 BC – Newgrange sculpture is formed; the Karnak Temple Complex constructed
3600 BC – The Mnajdra on the isle of Malta; The Ġgantija temple on the island of Gozo.
Prehistoric
7250 BC in art – Tradition of making Plaster Skulls in Jericho and ‘Ain Ghazal in the Levant.
8000 BC in art – paintings at Roca dels Moros, and the Cueva de las Manos.
9000 BC in art – Engraving of Dabous Giraffes in Niger
13,000 BC in art – Engravings in the Cave of the Trois-Frères, most notably The Sorcerer (cave art)
15,000 BC in art – Paintings created at Lascaux
20,000 BC in art – Bison Licking Insect Bite created at la Madeleine in France; Venus of Laussel
25,000 BC in art – Venus of Brassempuoy
28,000 BC in art – Venus of Willendorf
30,000 BC in art – paintings at Chauvet Cave in France; Löwenmensch figurine
35,600 BC in art – paintings at the Cave of Altamira
40,000 BC in art – Mask of la Roche-Cotard created by neanderthal; Pre-Estuarine Tradition begins at Ubirr in northern Australia
80,000 BC in art – Nassarius shell necklace and engraved red ochre pencil at Blombos Cave, in South Africa
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