Chronological history of the visual arts by year and decade
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This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also art periods. This list is exclusively for the visual arts; for music, see Timeline of musical events.
2025 in art - Death of La Chunga, Ed Askew, Peter Brandes, Elisabeth Haarr, Philippa Blair, Leo Segedin, Alastair MacKinven, Oliviero Toscani, David Lynch, George A. Tice, Jules Feiffer, Aaron De Groft, Jo Baer, Håkon Bleken, Renina Katz, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Graham Nickson
2024 in art - Death of Hartmut Ritzerfeld, Alexis Smith, Kishin Shinoyama, Brent Sikkema, Robert Whitman, Carl Andre, Ricardo Pascale, Brian Griffin, Peter Golfinopoulos, Antonio Paolucci, Helga Paris, Melvin Way, Andrew Crispo, A. Ramachandran, Günter Brus, Aleš Lamr, Marc Pachter, Steve Paxton. Félix Aráuz, Iris Apfel, Pigcasso, Lucas Samaras, Akira Toriyama, Imogen Stuart, Robert Moskowitz. Richard Serra, Katsura Funakoshi, Marian Zazeela, Quisqueya Henríquez, Gaetano Pesce, Italo Rota, Ziraldo, Patti Astor, Trina Robbins, Faith Ringgold, Jean-Marie Haessle, Au Ho-nien, Zack Norman, Frank Stella, David Shapiro, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Katherine Porter, Joe Zucker, Roberta Marrero, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, John Boardman,Valery Chtak, Sanford L. Smith, Bertien van Manen, Jan van Munster, Ben Vautier, Lyons Brown Jr., Guy Warren, Barbara Gladstone, Sir John Boardman, Martin Mull, Audrey Flack, Jacqueline de Jong, Manuel Cargaleiro, June Leaf, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Thomas Hoepker, Bill Viola, André Juillard, Kasper König, Simon Verity, Jaime Botín, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, David Anfam, Leonard Riggio, Ēvī Upeniece, Hans Danuser, Jacqueline Winsor, Derek Boshier, Rebecca Horn, Peter Klashorst, Mary McFadden, Norman Ackroyd, Eikoh Hosoe, Valentinas Antanavičius, Ivan Vukadinov, Richard Mayhew, Lillian Schwartz, Andrew Stahl, Patricia Johanson, Isabelle de Borchgrave, Robert C. Morgan, Gary Indiana, Paul Morrissey, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Daniel Spoerri Frank Auerbach, David R. Prentice, Walter Dahn, Tom Forrestall, Eunice Parsons, Vojo Stanić, Cynthia Zukas, Breyten Breytenbach, Rafig Nasirov, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Lorraine O'Grady, Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, Juan Cárdenas, Rezki Zerarti, Yoshio Taniguchi, Roberto Esteban Chavez, Zilia Sánchez Domínguez, Kurt Laurenz Metzler, Alfredo Prior, Marie-Claude Beaud, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Pippa Garner
2023 in art - Death of Marilyn Stafford, Zhou Lingzhao, Lyuben Zidarov, Karim Bennani, Michael Snow, George S. Zimbel, Hans Belting, Nicola Zamboni, Alfred Leslie, Jesse Treviño, Ángela Gurría, Ans Westra, Mary Bauermeister, Camille Souter, Rafael Viñoly, Lou Stovall, Piero Gilardi, Ian Falconer, Phyllida Barlow, Francisco Rodón, Shamim Sikder, James Harithas, Vivan Sundaram, Myriam Ullens, Neal Boenzi, Ted Bonin, Al Jaffee, John Olsen, Eberhard Kornfeld, Ed Koren, Harold Riley, Ju Ming, Yvonne Jacquette, Frank Kozik, Kenneth Anger, Roy Lerner, Dorothy Knowles, Jorrit Tornquist, Ilya Kabakov, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Françoise Gilot, Graziano Origa, Cora Cohen, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Jan Sierhuis, Joop Sanders, Ales Pushkin, Fazil Najafov, Rubén Martínez Bulnes, Tony Bennett, Jesse Lott, Oswaldo Viteri, Giorgio Di Genova, Didier Lourenço, David Le Batard, Konrad Klapheck, Jamie Reid, Brice Marden, Claude Picasso, Mario Costa, Lisa Lyon, Fernando Botero, Erwin Olaf, Park Seo-bo, Gastón Ugalde, Juanita McNeely, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Ida Applebroog, Robert Irwin, Gord Smith, Joe Tilson, Radcliffe Bailey, Rob Krier, Larry Fink, William Anastasi, Wolfgang Hollegha, Paul Dibble, Vera Molnár, Graziella Magherini, Richard Hunt, Giovanni Anselmo, Imroz, William Pope.L, Martha Diamond
2022 in art - Death of Craig Ruddy, Ricardo Bofill, Tova Berlinski, Alekos Fassianos, Hossein Valamanesh, Andrei Mudrea, James Bidgood, Dan Lacey, John Wesley, Carmen Herrera, John Scott, Dan Graham, Marino Golinelli, DeWain Valentine, Srihadi Soedarsono, Antonio Seguí, Nick Zedd, Conrad Janis, Albert Kresch, Budi Tek, Mira Calix, Ted Mooney, Patrick Demarchelier, Eleanor Munro, Donald Baechler, Jerry Uelsmann, Hermann Nitsch, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Lewis Stein, Marcus Leatherdale, Enoch Kelly Haney, Ron Galella, Suzi Gablik, Enrique Metinides, Knox Martin, Bob Neuwirth, Miss.Tic, David Datuna, Samella Lewis, Claude Rutault Christopher Pratt, Jacques Villeglé, Paula Rego, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Heidi Horten, Duncan Hannah, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Harvey Dinnerstein, Arnold Skolnick, Sam Gilliam, Margaret Keane, David Blackwood, Matt King, Lily Safra, Maya Attoun, Claes Oldenburg, Emilie Benes Brzezinski, Jennifer Bartlett, Mary Obering, Velichko Minekov, Issey Miyake, Natalia LL, Marta Palau Bosch, Dmitri Vrubel, Oliver Frey, Lily Renée, Charlie Finch, Jens Birkemose, Virginia Dwan, James Polshek, Jean-Luc Godard. Roxanne Lowit, Bill Hutson, Brigida Baltar, Billy Al Bengston, Grace Glueck, Harold Garde, Angus Trumble, Jüri Arrak, Jagoda Buić, Peter Schjeldahl, Rodney Graham, Laila Shawa, Pierre Soulages, Nicholas Harding, Brian O'Doherty, Lee Bontecou, Hervé Télémaque, Tom Phillips, Ashley Bickerton, Larry Qualls, Ronald Sherr, Judith Lauand, Philip Pearlstein, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Dorothy Iannone, Arata Isozaki, Tony Vaccaro
2021 in art - Death of Jan de Bie, Kim Tschang-yeul, Arik Brauer, Barry Le Va, Forrest Moses, Cindy Nemser, Bill Hammond, Luis Feito, James Bishop, Arturo Di Modica, Alan Bowness, Toko Shinoda, Barbara Ess, Duggie Fields, Elsa Peretti, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Gianluigi Colalucci, Jean Dupuy, Mary Beth Edelson, Hans Rasmus Astrup, William T. Wiley, Eli Broad, Julião Sarmento, Susanna Heller, Richard Nonas, Alain Kirili, Ingvar Cronhammar, Roser Bru, Dani Karavan, Judith Godwin, Jane Kaufman, Douglas S. Cramer, Tomás Llorens, Allen Midgette, Mogens Møller, Gérard Fromanger, Arnold Odermatt, Diego Cortez, Arturo Schwarz, Joseph Raffael, Christian Boltanski, Louise Fishman, Phillip King, Nancy Frankel, Ben Wagin, Yolanda López, Stanislav Hanzík, K. Schippers, Chuck Close, Yusuf Grillo, Billy Apple, Achille Pace, Lars Vilks, Julie L. Green, Margo Leavin, Paul Blanca, Manuel Neri, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Lía Bermúdez, Patrick Reyntiens, Iran Darroudi, Raoul Middleman, Bettina Grossman, Dave Hickey, Etel Adnan, Jimmie Durham, Mick Rock, Carlo Maria Mariani, Rita Letendre, Robert Bly, Virgil Abloh, Guillermo Roux, Lawrence Weiner, Eve Babitz, Richard Rogers, Wayne Thiebaud, Sabine Weiss
2020 in art - Death of John Baldessari, Akbar Padamsee, André Lufwa, Oswald Oberhuber, James Mollison, Hester Diamond, Jason Polan. Beverly Pepper, Anne Windfohr Marion, Jack Youngerman, Peter Dreher, Ulay, John Seward Johnson II, Wolf Kahn, Paul Kasmin, Maurice Berger, Idelle Weber, Dr. Evermor, Anne Hendricks Bass, David Driskell, Alexander Thynn, Helene Aylon, Daniel Greene, Mort Drucker, Gillian Wise, William H. Bailey, Glenna Goodacre, Markus Raetz, Peter Beard, Tina Girouard, Zarina, Germano Celant, Michael McClure, Iepe Rubingh, Cliff Eyland, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Emma Amos, Peter Alexander, Gracia Barrios, Christo, Manuel Felguérez, Luther Price, Anna Blume, Milton Glaser, Benedetto Robazza, Frank Popper, George Simon, Brigid Berlin, Keith Sonnier, Lotty Rosenfeld, Miodrag Živković, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Frank Wright, William Arnett, Luchita Hurtado, Pierre-Yves Trémois, Fern Cunningham, Ron Gorchov, Mrinal Haque, Pedro de Oraá, Douglas MacDiarmid, Siah Armajani, Jürgen Schadeberg, Philippe Daverio, Pierre Nahon, Franco Maria Ricci, Donald Kendall, Robert Bechtle, Kenzo Takada, Geoffrey Dyer, Jean Cardot, Chris Killip, David Geiser, Lea Vergine, Diane Di Prima, Mohammed Melehi, Sindika Dokolo, Piero Simondo, Aldo Tambellini, Sheldon Solow, Daniel Cordier, Helen LaFrance, Suh Se-ok, Jackie Saccoccio, James Havard, Barbara Rose, David Medalla
2010s
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2019 in art - Death of Francine du Plessix Gray, John Mason, Jonas Mekas, Susan Hiller, Robert Ryman, Alessandro Mendini, Marella Angelli, Kevin Roche, Carolee Schneemann, Martín Chirino, Sir John Richardson, Okwui Enwezor, Luca Alinari, Barbara Hammer, Hedi Turki, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Claude Lalanne, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Jayne Wrightsman, Mavis Pusey, Thomas Nozkowski, Lutz Bacher, Nobuo Sekine, Jamil Naqsh, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Carroll, Everett Kinstler, Tony DeLap, Joe Overstreet, Adela Neffa, Joyce Pensato, Maryon Kantaroff, Martin Roth, Suzan Pitt, Charles Ginnever, Robert Therrien, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Selz, Sascha Pohflepp, David Koloane, Leon Kossoff, Douglas Crimp, Steve Cannon, Frieder Burda, Marisa Merz, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Wang Guodong, Peter Lindbergh, Francisco Toledo, Robert Frank, Daniel Johnston, Huguette Caland, Matthew Wong, John Giorno, Ettore Spalletti, E. A. Carmean, Charles Jencks, Adolfo Mexiac, Stefan Edlis, Edward Clark, Huang Yong Ping, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Rina Lazo, Manoucher Yektai, Johann Eyfells, May Stevens, Ken Heymann, Emily Mason, PHASE 2, Panamarenko, Alasdair Gray, Syd Mead, Oliviero Leonardi
2018 in art - Death of Mauro Staccioli, Betty Woodman, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Carlo Pedretti, Kynaston McShine, William Scharf, Ed Moses, Jack Whitten, Robert Pincus-Witten, Sonia Gechtoff, Frank Gaylord, Gillian Ayres, Marcia Hafif, Per Kirkeby, Tom Wolfe, Robert Indiana, Alan Bean, Gregg Juarez, Malcolm Morley, Irving Sandler, Michaele Vollbracht, David Goldblatt. Sabina Ott, Krishna Reddy, Paul Taylor, Irving Petlin, Tchan Fou-li, Annette Michelson, Robert Venturi, Geta Brătescu, Henry Wessel Jr., Jane Fortune, Helena Almeida, Milton Gendel,.Mel Ramos, Paul Allen, Jacques Monory, Harold Stevenson, Karl-Heinz Adler, Stan Lee, Lubomir Tomaszewski, Peter Peryer, Robert Morris, Vivian Lynn, Enrico Crispolti, Wendy Beckett, Jean Dumontier
2017 in art - Death of John Berger, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Ciel Bergman, Charles Recher, Moshe Gershuni, Dore Ashton, Harvey Lichtenstein, Jannis Kounellis, Sofia Imber, Fritz Koenig, Ren Hang, Gustav Metzger, Howard Hodgkin, Trisha Brown, David Rockefeller, George Woodman, Mirella Bentivoglio, Julian Stanczak, James Rosenquist, Glenn O'Brien, Barkley L. Hendricks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Vito Acconci, A. R. Penck, Michael Zwack, Jack Tilton, Felipe Ehrenberg, Marie Cosindas, Trento Longaretti, Edit DeAk, Khadija Saye, Olbram Zoubek, Hans Breder, José Luis Cuevas, Lala Rukh, Kenneth Jay Lane, Arlene Gottfried, John Ashberry, Arno Rink, Pierre Bergé, Pete Turner, David Shepherd, Eleanore Mikus, Robert Delpire, Holly Block, Fernando de Szyszlo, Richard Hambleton, Linda Nochlin, Trevor Bell, Frans Krajcberg, Enrico Castellani, Ivan Chermayeff, Lewis Manilow, Tim Rollins
2016 in art - Death of David Bowie, Thornton Dial, Charles Garabedian, Douglas Haynes, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Zaha Hadid, Richard Smith, Charles Gatewood, Marisol Escobar, Louisa Chase, Bill Berkson, Kenworth Moffett, Tony Feher, Bill Cunningham, Ben Patterson, Billy Name, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Goings, Shirley Jaffe, Walter Darby Bannard, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Klaus Kertess, David Antin, Leonard Cohen, Kenneth Snelson, Tyrus Wong
2015 in art - Death of Milton Hebald, Jane Wilson, Walter Liedtke, John C. Whitehead, Tomie Ohtake, Sheila Girling, Carel Visser, William King, Michael Graves, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Paule Anglim, Sargy Mann, Lars Tunbjörk, Judith Malina, Menashe Kadishman, Chris Burden, Rachel Rosenthal, Rosemarie Castoro, Mary Ellen Mark, Miriam Schapiro, David Aronson, Ingrid Sischy, Sally Gross, Melva Bucksbaum, Nelson Shanks, John Perreault, Brian Sewell, Paul Reed, Wojciech Fangor, Holly Woodlawn, George Earl Ortman, Ellsworth Kelly
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, Robyn Denny, Ultra Violet, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, On Kawara, Otto Piene, Sam Hunter, Edward Leffingwell, Marjorie Strider, David Armstrong, Wynn Chamberlain, Jane Freilicher, Jake Berthot
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, Françoise Cachin, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Stephen De Staebler, 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, Adrian Berg, 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, Giuseppe Panza, 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
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2009 in art – Death of Coosje van Bruggen, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Kanovitz, Max Neuhaus, Ernest Trova, Hanne Darboven, 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, Kahlil Gibran, Dorothy Podber, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, John Plumb, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet, Grace Hartigan, Jan Krugier, Guy Peellaert, 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 William Rubin, Mimmo Rotella, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Karel Appel, Richard Mock, Jason Rhoades, Julio Galán, Marcia Tucker, Emilio Vedova, Robert Rosenblum, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard,
2005 in art – Death of Philip Johnson, David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, Walter Hopps, Philip Pavia, 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 Gerome Kamrowski, Ward Jackson, Leon Golub, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cleve Gray, Agnes Martin, Muriel Berman, Tom Wesselmann
2003 in art – Death of Al Hirschfeld, Emerson Woelffer, Lynn Chadwick, Pierre Restany, Dorothy Miller, Kirk Varnedoe,Wally Hedrick
2002 in art – Death of Inge Morath, Peter Voulkos, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice
2001 in art – Death of Fred Hughes, Balthus, David Sylvester, Mercedes Matter, O. Winston Link, Hollis Sigler
2000 in art – Death of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Edward Gorey, Jacob Lawrence, Stanley Boxer, Leonard Baskin, Gregory Gillespie; Hans Moller
1990s
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1999 in art – Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick, Stephen Greene
1998 in art – Death of Richard 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, Philip Berman
1996 in art – Death of Duane Hanson, Dan Flavin, William Copley
1995 in art – Death of Daniel Robbins, Charles Bell, Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves, , Al Hansen
1994 in art – Death of Donald Judd, Robert Doisneau, Clement Greenberg, Henry Geldzahler, Anni Albers, Paul Delvaux, Sam Francis, Leigh Bowery
1993 in art – Death of Hannah Wilke, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert De Niro, Sr., Thomas Ammann, Leonard Bocour; Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize
1992 in art – Death of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, John Cage, Peyo
1991 in art – Death of Robert Motherwell, Jean Tinguely, Leland Bell, Dr. Seuss, Berenice Abbott
1990 in art – Death of Henrietta Berk, Keith Haring, Erté, Joan Brown
1980s
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1989 in art – Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo, Sidney Janis
1988 in art – Death of Ronald Bladen, Neil Williams, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Constantino Nivola, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald De Lue
1987 in art – Death of Alexander Iolas, Andy Warhol, Jean Hélion, André Masson, Raphael Soyer
1986 in art – Death of Edward Biberman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Jane Frank
1985 in art – Death of Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, André Kertész, Ana Mendieta; Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
1984 in art – Death of Jimmy Ernst, Hollis Frampton, Ansel Adams, Sir Roland Penrose, Lee Krasner, Brassaï, Edward James
1983 in art – Death of Hergé, Chang Dai-chien, Kenneth Clark, Joan Miró
1982 in art – Death of Wifredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
1981 in art – Death of Francesca Woodman, Isaac Soyer, Max Spivak, Isaac Frenkel Frenel; Birth of Miru Kim
1980 in art – Death of Cecil Beaton, Albert Kotin, Oskar Kokoschka, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Tamara de Lempicka; Pablo Picasso major retrospective exhibition at Museum of Modern Art (New York)
1970s
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1979 in art – Death of Nelson Rockefeller, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Delaunay
1978 in art – Death of Thomas B. Hess, Norman Rockwell, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Kallir
1977 in art – Death of Charles Alston, Gertrude Abercrombie, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo. Centre Pompidou opens
1976 in art – Birth of Jay Simeon; Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Burra
1975 in art – Birth of Alick Tipoti; Death of Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Barbara Hepworth
1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb
1974 in art – For the first time in art history, the chemogram invented by Josef H. Neumann closed the separation of the painterly background and the photographic layer in a symbiosis of painting and real photographic perspective.
1973 in art – Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Robert Smithson; the first Whitney Biennial
1972 in art – Death of M. C. Escher, Joseph Cornell, Enrico Baj creates The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli
1971 in art – Death of I. Rice Pereira
1970 in art – Birth of Jenny Saville; Death of Rita Angus, Mark Rothko, Fritz Ascher, Eva Hesse, Roberto Longhi, Barnett Newman
1960s
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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 Jules Trobaugh
1967 in art – Death of Edward Hopper, René Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
1966 in art – Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, Edward Le Bas, 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 and Yushaev Zamir
1964 in art – Death of Rico Lebrun, 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 and Dean Cornwell; Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, and David Neel. As public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular
1950s
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1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans
1957 in art – Death of David Bomberg, Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats; Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
1956 in art – Birth of David D. Stern, Death of Marie Laurencin, Jackson Pollock
1955 in art – Birth of Beau Dick, Jeff Koons, Akira Toriyama; Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
1954 in art – Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
1953 in art – Death of Raoul Dufy, John Marin, Francis Picabia; Birth of Gidansda Guujaaw
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 – Birth of Richard Hunt and Joe Nalo; 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
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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, Kurt Schwitters, George Ault
1947 in art – Birth of Ronnie Landfield and James Schoppert; Death of Pierre Bonnard, Wilhelm Uhde, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century gallery
1946 in art – Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, and Robert Davidson; Death of Arthur Dove
1945 in art – Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato, death of René Gimpel
1944 in art – Birth of Odd Nerdrum, Timothy Akis, and Mathias Kauage; 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 Chaïm Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Camille Claudel, Maurice Denis, Beatrix Potter, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
1942 in art – Death of Séraphine Louis, Birth of Dan Christensen and Tony Hunt Sr.; Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century gallery
1941 in art – Death of El Lissitzky, 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
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1939 in art – Birth of Spider Martin
1938 in art – Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, and Nathan Jackson; Death of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Glackens
1937 in art – Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Larry Poons, 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, Franco Fontana, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin
1932 in art – Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell
1931 in art – Death of Helmut Kolle, 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
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1929 in art – Death of Louisine Havemeyer, Charles Grafly, 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 – Death of Paul César Helleu, Juan Gris, Osmar Schindler, Armand Guillaumin, Eugene Atget, 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, and Freda Diesing
1924 in art – Birth of Kenneth Noland, André Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal
1923 in art – Death of Elihu Vedder, Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Antoni Tapies, 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, and Bill Reid; Death of Amedeo Modigliani
1910s
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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, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Egon Schiele
1917 in art – Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth; Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Louis Édouard Fournier, Marcel Duchamp produces Fountain
1916 in art – Birth of Louis le Brocquy and Ellen Neel; Death of Thomas Eakins; Dadaism started in Zürich
1915 in art – Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden, Alberto Burri
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
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1909 in art – Death of Pinckney Marcius-Simons, 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 – Death of Giovanni Fattori, Richard Gerstl, 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
[edit]
1899 in art – Death of Alfred Sisley, Birth of Lucio Fontana, Isaac Frenkel Frenel
1898 in art – Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, René Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim, and Carrie Bethel
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 – Death of Gustave Caillebotte, Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell,
1893 in art – Birth of Joan Miró, Chaïm Soutine, Fritz Ascher, 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
[edit]
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, Death of James Jackson Jarves; 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, Death of Hippolyte Bayard
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 and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; Georges Seurat paints Bathers at Asnières; Juan Luna paints the Spoliarium
1883 in art – Birth of Jean Metzinger, Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Gino Severini, Death of Gustave Doré, 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; Black Hawk begins a series of 76 ledger drawings.
1870s
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1879 in art – Birth of Edward Steichen, Paul Klee, and Mungo Martin; Death of Honoré Daumier, Thomas Couture, George Caleb Bingham, Joseph Severn, William Morris Hunt
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; Birth of Willie Seaweed
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, and Lucy Telles
1860s
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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, and Nellie Charlie; 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
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1859 in art – Birth of Georges-Pierre Seurat
1858 in art – Death of Hiroshige
1857 in art – Birth of Eugène Atget, Louis Édouard Fournier
1856 in art – Ingres completes Portrait of Madame Moitessier
1855 in art – Death of Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 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. Birth of Evelyn De Morgan
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
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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, and Edmonia Lewis; 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
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1839 in art – Birth of Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, and Charles Edenshaw; J. M. W. Turner paints The Fighting Temeraire
1838 in art
1837 in art – Death of François Gérard, 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 – The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai
1830 in art – Birth of Camille Pissarro, Albert Bierstadt, Eugène Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People; Hokusai paints The Great Wave off Kanagawa
1820s
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1829 in art – Birth of Anselm Feuerbach, John Everett Millais, and Dat So La Lee
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 - Birth of Alexandre Cabanel
1822 in art
1821 in art – John Constable completes The Hay Wain
1820 in art
1810s
[edit]
1819 in art – Birth of Gustave Courbet; Théodore Géricault paints The Raft of the Medusa,
1818 in art
1817 in art
1816 in art – Birth of Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets
1815 in art
1814 in art – Francisco Goya paints 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
[edit]
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 Naked Maja
1790s
[edit]
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, George Harley (painter)
1790 in art – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered.
1780s
[edit]
1789 in art
1788 in art – Death of Thomas Gainsborough
1787 in art – Death of Pompeo Batoni
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
[edit]
1779 in art – Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
1778 in art
1777 in art
1776 in art – Birth 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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1759 in art
1758 in art - Death of Bartolomeo Nazari
1757 in art – Death of Rosalba Carriera, 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 – Death of Rachel Ruysch, Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
1740s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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; Death of Christian Richter (painter, born 1678)
1731 in art
1730 in art
1720s
[edit]
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 – Death of Claude Gillot
1721 in art – Death of Antoine Watteau
1720 in art
1710s
[edit]
1719 in art – Death of Christoph Ludwig Agricola, Birth of 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 of František Prokyš, Allan Ramsay, Richard Wilson
1712 in art – Birth of Francesco Guardi
1711 in art – Birth of Carl Gustaf Pilo
1710 in art
1700s
[edit]
1709 in art – Death of Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo
1708 in art – Death of Ludolf Bakhuysen, Birth of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
1707 in art – Death of Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth of William Hoare, Van Loo
1706 in art – Death of Luo Mu
1705 in art – Death of Zhu Da, Birth of Charles-André van Loo
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; Possible date of rock paintings at the Burro Flats site
1690s
[edit]
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 – Death of Fillipo Lauri
1693 in art
1692 in art
1691 in art
1690 in art – Death of David Teniers the Younger
1680s
[edit]
1689 in art
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 – The Treaty of Shackamaxon is depicted on a wampum belt.
1681 in art
1680 in art – Death of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor/architect
1670s
[edit]
1679 in art
1678 in art – Birth of Christian Richter
1677 in art
1676 in art
1675 in art – Death of Johannes Vermeer
1674 in art – Death of Kanō Tan'yū
1673 in art – Birth of Claude Gillot
1672 in art
1671 in art
1670 in art – Death of Viviano Codazzi
1660s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1629 in art – Birth of Pieter de Hooch
1628 in art
1627 in art - Death of Cardinal Francesco Del Monte
1626 in art – Birth of Jan Steen
1625 in art
1624 in art – Frans Hals paints the Laughing Cavalier
1623 in art
1622 in art – Birth of Luo Mu
1621 in art
1620 in art
1610s
[edit]
1619 in art – Birth of Charles Le Brun
1618 in art – Death of Fillide Melandroni, 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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – Death of François Clouet, Agnolo di Cosimo
1571 in art – Birth of Caravaggio, Death of Niccolò dell'Abbate, Benvenuto Cellini
1570 in art
1560s
[edit]
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 - Death of Paul Dax, Luca Martini
1560 in art
1550s
[edit]
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
[edit]
1549 in art - Birth of Francesco Maria del Monte
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 PortraitofSir 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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 TheHaywain Triptych
1480s
[edit]
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, Urs Graf
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
[edit]
1479 in art
1478 in art
1477 in art
1476 in art – Death of Simonetta Vespucci
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
[edit]
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 – Birth of Piero di Cosimo
1461 in art
1460 in art – Paolo Uccello completes The Battle of San Romano
1450s
[edit]
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 – Braque Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet; Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
1451 in art – Fra Angelico completes the frescoes of the Niccoline Chapel
1450 in art – Birth of Hieronymus Bosch; Death of Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta); David with the Head of Goliath by Andrea del Castagno
1440s
[edit]
1449 in art – Birth of Domenico Ghirlandaio
1448 in art
1447 in art – Death of Masolino da Panicale
1446 in art – Birth of Pietro Perugino
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 Konrad Witz; 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
[edit]
1439 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of Margaret van Eyck; Birth of Cosimo Rosselli
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
[edit]
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; the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven are constructed in Beijing; Birth of Piero della Francesca, Jean Fouquet
1410s
[edit]
1419 in art
1418 in art
1417 in art –
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
[edit]
1409 in art
1408 in art – The Transfiguration of Jesus by Theophanes the Greek; David (Donatello) by Donatello
1407 in art
1406 in art – Birth of Fillipo Lippi
1405 in art
1404 in art
1403 in art
1402 in art
1401 in art – Birth of Masaccio
1400 in art – The rock art at the Takiroa Rock Art Shelter; Birth of Bernat Martorell, Start of Quattrocento
1390s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – Jaume Serra completes Descent into Hell
1380 in art
1370s
[edit]
1379 in art
1378 in art – Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti
1377 in art – Birth of Filippo Brunelleschi
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1339 in art – The Allegory of Good and Bad Government is finished by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
1338 in art
1337 in art – Death of Giotto
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1319 in art – Death of Duccio
1318 in art
1317 in art
1316 in art
1315 in art - Death of Giovanni Pisano (c.)
1314 in art
1313 in art
1312 in art
1311 in art
1310 in art
1300s
[edit]
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
[edit]
1299 in art
1298 in art
1297 in art
1296 in art
1295 in art – The Muisca raft
1294 in art
1293 in art
1292 in art
1291 in art
1290 in art – Birth of Ambrogio Lorenzetti
1280s
[edit]
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, Nicola Pisano
1283 in art
1282 in art
1281 in art
1280 in art – Birth of Pietro Lorenzetti
1270s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – The Etowah plates; Earliest date of the Moai of Easter Island
1240s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – The Wulfing cache
1190s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – The Genji Monogatari Emaki is produced.
1110s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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 – Construction of Jaketown in Mississippi.
1090s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1059 in art
1058 in art
1057 in art
1056 in art – The Pagoda of Fogong Temple
1055 in art
1054 in art
1053 in art
1052 in art – The Longxing Temple
1051 in art – Death of Xu Daoning
1050 in art
1040s
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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; Rock paintings at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Pre 1000
[edit]
10th Century AD
[edit]
c. 983 AD – Gommateshwara statue
c. 975 AD – Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle
c. 968 AD – Magdeburg Ivories
9th Century AD
[edit]
800–820 AD – Easby Cross
8th Century AD
[edit]
Ruthwell Cross
7th Century AD
[edit]
Late 7th Century AD? – Bewcastle Cross
652 AD – The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
634 AD – Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy by Yan Liben
Early 7th Century AD – Gilt-bronze Maitreya in Meditation
6th Century AD
[edit]
523 AD – The Songyue Pagoda
5th Century AD
[edit]
Nymph of the Luo River (洛神賦) by Gu Kaizhi
4th Century AD
[edit]
315 AD – Arch of Constantine
3rd Century AD
[edit]
c. 250–260 AD – Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus
203 AD – Arch of Septimius Severus
2nd Century AD
[edit]
193 AD – Column of Marcus Aurelius
162 AD – Tuxtla Statuette
151 AD – The Wu Family Shrines
143 AD – La Mojarra Stela 1
113 AD – Trajan's Column
1st Century AD
[edit]
5 AD – The sculptures at San Agustín Archaeological Park
? – The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras and the Pomier Caves rock art.
1st Century BC
[edit]
9 BC – Ara Pacis
57 BC – Temple of Edfu
2nd Century BC
[edit]
180 BC – The Pergamon Altar.
200 BC – Mounds at the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
3rd Century BC
[edit]
206 BC – The Great Wall of China is built
250 BC – The Lion Capital of Ashoka
300 BC – The Lohanipur torso and the Serpent Mound
5th Century BC
[edit]
440 BC – The Doryphoros
460 BC – The Riace bronzes.
c. 500 BC – The Nazca Lines
6th Century BC
[edit]
? – Hanging Gardens of Babylon
7th Century BC
[edit]
700 BC – Sculptures at La Venta and Deer stones in Siberia.
8th Century BC
[edit]
722 BC – The Assyrian Timber Transportation relief
750 BC – The Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders and Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines
800 BC – The Gleninsheen gorget and the production of Phoenician metal bowls
9th Century BC
[edit]
825 BC – The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
900 BC – The Dowris Hoard and the Nimrud ivories
10th Century BC
[edit]
1000 BC – Olmec figurines, the Shropshire bulla, the rock carvings at Bidzar, the Da Yu ding, and the Da Ke ding
2nd Millennium BC in art
[edit]
1050 BC – The Dunaverney flesh-hook
1100 BC – The Stele of Untash Napirisha and the Chinese Ritual wine server
1200 BC – Stone sculptures at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
1264 BC – The Abu Simbel temples are founded.
1300 BC – The Caergwrle Bowl; the Treasure of Villena; the Nefertiti Bust; the death mask and throne of Tutankhamen; the Statue of Queen Napir-Asu; the Houmuwu ding
1370 BC – The Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro
1400 BC – 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; La Parisienne, and the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus of Minoan Crete; the Trundholm sun chariot; the Langstrup belt plate
1450 BC – The Bull-Leaping Fresco, the Pylos Combat Agate, and the Palaikastro Kouros
1500 BC – The Mycenaean palace amphora with octopus, Mask of Agamemnon, the Theseus Ring, the Balkåkra Ritual Object, and the Sword of Ommerschans
1550 BC – Prince of the Lilies and the Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
1600 BC – The Gold Diadem of Caravaca, the Minoan snake goddess figurines, the Minoan Bull-leaper, the Vaphio cups, the Da He ding, and the Shi zun
1650 BC – The Hüseyindede vases
1700 BC – Poverty Point constructed in Louisiana; the Akrotiri Boxer Fresco; the Rillaton Gold Cup
1750 BC – The Hove amber cup
1760 BC – The Pyramid of Khendjer
1791 BC – The Pyramid of Ameny Qemau
1796 BC – The Bust of Amenemhat V
1800 BC – The Nebra Sky Disc, the Sword of Jutphaas, the Malia Pendant, the Investiture of Zimri-Lim, the Thun-Renzenbühl axe, the Burney Relief, and the potbelly sculptures of Pre-Olmec Mesoamerica.
1802 BC – The Northern Mazghuna pyramid
1806 BC – The Southern Mazghuna pyramid and the Statue of Sobekneferu
1814 BC – The Black Pyramid
1839 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret III
1850 BC – The Aegina Treasure
1860 BC – The Pedestals of Biahmu
1878 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret II
1895 BC – The White Pyramid
1900 BC – Karnak Temple Complex; the Mold gold cape; the Bush Barrow gold lozenge
1926 BC – The Pyramid of Senusret I
1961 BC – William the Faience Hippopotamus
1962 BC – The Pyramid of Amenemhat I
2000 BC – Cashtal yn Ard, the Priest-King, Woman Riding Two Bulls, and the Angono Petroglyphs in the Philippines
3rd Millennium BC in art
[edit]
2049 BC – Seahenge
2050 BC – The Ziggurat of Ur, the Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati, the Limestone Statue of the Steward Mery, and the Limestone Stela of Tjetji
2090 BC – The Statue of Iddi-Ilum
2150 BC – The Saint-Bélec slab
2184 BC – The Pyramid of Pepi II
2200 BC – The Statues of Gudea and the Alaca Höyük bronze standards
2250 BC – The Bassetki Statue and the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
2270 BC – The Statue of Manishtushu
2278 BC – The Pyramid of Merenre
2287 BC – The Pyramid of Pepi I
2300 BC – The Labbacallee wedge tomb, the Senegambian stone circles, the Hurrian foundation pegs, the Dancing Girl, the Anubanini rock relief, the Pömmelte ring sanctuary, and the Coggalbeg hoard
2333 BC – The Pyramid of Teti
2345 BC – The Pyramid of Unas
2350 BC – The Pashupati Seal
2385 BC – The Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
2420 BC – The Headless Pyramid
2430 BC – The Pyramid of Nyuserre
2450 BC – The Statuette of Neferefre and the Pyramid of Neferefre
2455 BC – The Pyramid of Neferirkare
2475 BC – The Pyramid of Sahure
2490 BC – The Pyramid of Userkaf
2500 BC – The Statue of Ebih-Il; Silbury Hill is constructed; the Kernosivsky idol; the Mastabat al-Fir'aun
2510 BC – The Pyramid of Menkaure
2530 BC – The Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan
2550 BC – The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, Khafre Enthroned, the Lyres of Ur, and the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
2560 BC – The Pyramid of Djedefre and the Sphinx of Hetepheres II
2570 BC – The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Khufu Statuette
2575 BC – The Red Pyramid
2600 BC – Standard of Ur is created; Stele of the Vultures; Ram in a Thicket; the Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel; the Copper Bull; the Bent Pyramid
2630 BC – The Layer Pyramid
2645 BC – The Buried Pyramid
2670 BC – The Pyramid of Djoser is built;
2800 BC – The Vučedol dove
2900 BC – The Tell Asmar Hoard and the Stele of Ushumgal
2985 BC – The MacGregor plaque
3000 BC – Stonehenge, King Orry's Grave, and Avebury are estimated to have been constructed; the Sieben Steinhäuser stones are erected; cave paintings at Dhambalin in Somalia; the Guennol Lioness; the Nevsha Stele
Neolithic
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3100 BC – Mask of Warka, earliest surviving depiction of human face is built; Proto-Elamite Kneeling Bull with Vessel; the Battlefield Palette, the Bull Palette, the Hunters Palette, the Blau Monuments, the Scorpion Macehead, the Narmer Palette and the Narmer Macehead
3150 BC – The Tarxien Temples are built.
3200 BC – Newgrange and Knowth are formed; the Warka Vase
3300 BC – The Four Dogs Palette, the Tell Brak Head, and the Uruk Trough
3400 BC – The Bronocice pot
3450 BC – The Gebel el-Arak Knife
3500 BC – Rock paintings at Laas Geel; the El-Amra clay model of cattel; the Nahal Mishmar hoard in the Levant; Watson Brake in Louisiana
3600 BC – The Mnajdra on the isle of Malta; The Ġgantija temple on the island of Gozo; Rock art at Züschen
3700 BC – The Ħaġar Qim temple.
4000 BC – Rock paintings at Twyfelfontein; Creevykeel Court Tomb in Ireland; Rock art at Sabu-Jaddi
4200 BC – Poulnabrone dolmen is erected in Ireland; the Rock carvings at Alta are made
4500 BC – The Carnac stones are erected in France.
4700 BC – The Locmariaquer megaliths are erected in France.
4800 BC – The cairn of Barnenez and the Tumulus of Bougon
4900 BC – The Goseck Circle
5000 BC – Sydney rock engravings and the Stone circles of Hong Kong
5500 BC – The rock engravings of Oued Djerat
5700 BC – The Goddess on the Throne
6000 BC – The Bangudae Petroglyphs
7000 BC – Tradition of making Plaster Skulls in Jericho and 'Ain Ghazal in the Levant; rock paintings at the Tibesti Mountains
7500 BC – Stone circle at Nabta Playa
8000 BC – Paintings at Roca dels Moros, the Cueva de las Manos, and the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica; the rock paintings at Tadrart Rouge, the Coso Rock Art District, and the Apollo 11 Cave; the Edakkal caves petroglyphs; the Cooper Bison skull
9000 BC – Engraving of Dabous Giraffes in Niger; Göbekli Tepe; the Ain Sakhri figurine; rock paintings at Caverna da Pedra Pintada and the Toquepala Caves; Wurdi Youang; Urfa Man; the Venus of Monruz
10,000 BC – The Wolverine pendant of Les Eyzies; First paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer, the Bhimbetka rock shelters, Tambun cave, and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings; the Shigir Idol; the Robin Hood Cave Horse
Mesolithic
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11,000 BC – Rock paintings at Matobo National Park
12,000 BC – The rock paintings at the Acacus Mountains
Upper Paleolithic
[edit]
13,000 BC – Engravings in the Cave of the Trois-Frères, most notably The Sorcerer (cave art); Swimming Reindeer
15,000 BC – Paintings created at Lascaux and Creswell Crags
16,000 BC – Badanj Cave engravings
17,000 BC – Paintings at Grotte de Gabillou
19,000 BC – Rock paintings at Namadgi National Park
20,000 BC – Bison Licking Insect Bite created at la Madeleine in France; Venus of Laussel; The paintings at the Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley, Siega Verde, Serra da Capivara, and the Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
21,000 BC – The Venus figurines of Mal'ta and the Venus of Buret'
22,000 BC – Cave paintings at Tsodilo and the Venus of Moravany
23,000 BC – The Venus of Savignano
25,000 BC – Venus of Brassempouy; the cave paintings of Pech Merle
26,000 BC – The Venus of Lespugue
27,000 BC – The paintings at Cosquer Cave.
28,000 BC – Venus of Willendorf and the Venus of Galgenberg; the paintings at the Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure, Gabarnmung, and HaYonim Cave
29,000 BC – The Venus of Dolní Věstonice
30,000 BC – paintings at Chauvet Cave in France; Löwenmensch figurine
35,600 BC – paintings at the Cave of Altamira; the Venus of Hohle Fels
40,000 BC – Mask of la Roche-Cotard created by neanderthal; Pre-Estuarine Tradition begins at Ubirr in northern Australia; cave paintings at Lubang Jeriji Saléh and the Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst in Indonesia; the Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave; and the figurines from Vogelherd Cave
45,000 BC – Rock paintings at Murujuga
50,000 BC – The Giant deer bone of Einhornhöhle
Middle Paleolithic
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60,000 BC – The Divje Babe flute
64,000 BC – Paintings at the Cave of La Pasiega and the Cave of Maltravieso
80,000 BC – Nassarius shell necklace and engraved red ochre pencil at Blombos Cave, in South Africa
Lower Paleolithic
[edit]
500,000 BC – Venus of Tan-Tan and Venus of Berekhat Ram sculpted
550,000 BC – The Pseudodon shell DUB1006-fL is possibly the oldest engraving by Homo Erectus.