List of years in art
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This page indexes the individual '''year in art''' pages. See also [[Art periods]]. This is a list of the [[Visual Art]]s '''only''' for Music see [[Timeline of musical events]]
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== 2000s ==
* '''[[2009 in art]]'''
* '''[[2008 in art]]''' - Death of [[William Brice]], [[Enrico Donati]], [[Robert Rauschenberg]], [[Will Elder]], [[Cornell Capa]], [[Bruce Conner]]
* '''[[2007 in art]]''' - Death of [[Dan Christensen]], [[Jules Olitski]], [[Sol LeWitt]], [[Jörg Immendorff]], [[Salvatore Scarpitta]], [[Elizabeth Murray (born 1940)|Elizabeth Murray]], [[Edward Avedisian]], Andre Emmerich, [[Lenore Tawney]], [[R. B. Kitaj]], [[Ileana Sonnabend]], [[Paul Brach]], [[Robert Kulicke]], [[Michael Goldberg]], [[Ismail Gulgee]]
* '''[[2006 in art]]''' - Death of [[Nam June Paik]], [[Allan Kaprow]], [[Isaac Witkin]], [[Larry Zox]], [[Ruth Bernhard]], [[Karel Appel]]
* '''[[2005 in art]]''' - Death of [[Philip Johnson]], former gallerist and [[curator]] David Whitney, [[Al Held]], [[Eugene J. Martin]], [[R.C. Gorman]], [[Fritz Scholder]], 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]]
* '''[[2003 in art]]''' - Death of [[Kirk Varnedoe]], [[Wally Hedrick]]. Artist [[John Trobaugh]]'s exhibit was banned in [[Alabama]] from college gallery and labeled "dangerous" by its president Rogers.
* '''[[2002 in art]]''' - Death of [[Inge Morath]], [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], [[George Rickey]], [[Richard Lippold]], [[Stan Rice]], Works - [[Elizabeth Catlett]] - [[Ife]].
* '''[[2001 in art]]''' - Death of [[Balthus]] and [[O. Winston Link]]; [[Janet Cardiff]] - [[Forty-Part Motet]]
* '''[[2000 in art]]''' - Death of [[Jacob Lawrence]];
== 1990s ==
* '''[[1999 in art]]''' - Death of [[Paul Cadmus]], [[Patrick Heron]], [[Leo Castelli]], [[Nicholas Krushenick]]
* '''[[1998 in art]]''' - Death of [[Dick Higgins]], [[John Krushenick]], [[Chris Ofili]] wins the [[Turner Prize]]
* '''[[1997 in art]]''' - Death of [[Willem de Kooning]], [[Roy Lichtenstein]], [[Sam Golden]]
* '''[[1996 in art]]''' - Death of [[Dan Flavin]]
* '''[[1995 in art]]''' - Death of [[Harry Shoulberg]], [[Nancy Graves]]
* '''[[1994 in art]]''' - Death of [[Sam Francis]], [[Robert Doisneau]], [[Donald Judd]], [[Clement Greenberg]]
* '''[[1993 in art]]''' - Death of [[Richard Diebenkorn]], [[Hannah Wilke]], [[Rachel Whiteread]] wins the [[Turner Prize]]
* '''[[1992 in art]]''' - Death of [[Francis Bacon (painter)|Francis Bacon]], [[David Wojnarowicz]], [[Joan Mitchell]], [[Jeff Koons]] debuts Topiary Puppy
* '''[[1991 in art]]''' - Death of [[Robert Motherwell]], [[Berenice Abbott]]
* '''[[1990 in art]]''' - Death of [[Keith Haring]], [[Joan Brown]]
== 1980s ==
* '''[[1989 in art]]''' - Death of [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Jay DeFeo]]
* '''[[1988 in art]]''' - Death of [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], [[Isamu Noguchi]], [[Louise Nevelson]]
* '''[[1987 in art]]''' - Death of [[Andy Warhol]], [[Christian Lacroix]] opens his Paris fashion house
* '''[[1986 in art]]''' - Death of [[Henry Moore]], [[Georgia O'Keeffe]]
* '''[[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 [[Ansel Adams]], [[Lee Krasner]]
* '''[[1983 in art]]''' - Death of [[Joan Miró]]
* '''[[1982 in art]]''' - Death of [[Wifredo Lam]], [[Ben Nicholson]]
* '''[[1981 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Miru Kim]]
* '''[[1980 in art]]''' - Death of [[Albert Kotin]], [[Clyfford Still]], [[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]], [[Graham Sutherland]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]]; [[Pablo Picasso]] retrospective exhibition at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]], May 22, 1980 through September 16, 1980. The largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the [[United States]].
== 1970s ==
* '''[[1979 in art]]''' - Death of [[Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler]], [[Peggy Guggenheim]]
* '''[[1978 in art]]''' - Death of [[Norman Rockwell]]
* '''[[1977 in art]]''' - Death of [[Charles Alston]], [[Lee Miller]], [[Naum Gabo]]
* '''[[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]] Birth of [[John Trobaugh]]
* '''[[1967 in art]]''' - Death of [[Edward Hopper]], [[Rene 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]], 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]], [[October 31]] the [[Sidney Janis]] Gallery mounts ''The New Realists'' the first [[Pop Art]] group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in [[New York City]], in a 57th Street storefront near the gallery at 15 E. 57th Street
* '''[[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]], 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]], Birth of [[Jack Spencer]], [[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'' [http://www.sissa.it/~fonte/New%20York%20City/Arte%20Contemporanea/HPIM0177.JPG]
== 1940s ==
* '''[[1949 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Ross Bleckner]], [[Alberto Giacometti]] completes ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ThreeMenWalkingII.JPG Three Men Walking II]''
* '''[[1948 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Eric Fischl]], 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 (painter)|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]]'''
* '''[[1940 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Mary Ellen Mark]], [[Nancy Graves]], [[Elizabeth Murray (born 1940)|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]]''; Death of [[Maurice Ravel|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 [[Patrick Ireland]]
* '''[[1933 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Sam Gilliam]], [[Yoko Ono]], [[James Rosenquist]], [[Dan Flavin]]
* '''[[1932 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Howard Hodgkin]], [[Paul Caponigro]]
* '''[[1931 in art]]''' - Births of [[Frank Auerbach]], [[Bridget Riley]], [[Tom Wesselmann]]
* '''[[1930 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Jasper Johns]], Death of [[Jules Pascin]]
== 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]]
* '''[[1928 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Andy Warhol]], [[Arman]], [[Yves Klein]], [[Helen Frankenthaler]], [[Donald Judd]], [[Sol Lewitt]]
* '''[[1927 in art]]''' - Birth of [[John Chamberlain (sculptor)|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]], Andre Emmerich, [[Michael Goldberg]], [[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]]
* '''[[1923 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Marc Riboud]], [[Sam Francis]], [[Roy Lichtenstein]]
* '''[[1922 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Lucian Freud]], [[Richard Diebenkorn]]
* '''[[1921 in art]]''' - [[Piet Mondrian]] completes [[:Image:Mondrian CompRYB.jpg|Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue]]
* '''[[1920 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Wayne Thiebaud]], [[Gene Davis]], [[Patrick Heron]], [[Helmut Newton]], Death of [[Amedeo Modigliani]]
== 1910s ==
* '''[[1919 in art]]''' - Death of [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Ralph Blakelock]], [[Walter Gropius]] founds [[the Bauhaus]]
* '''[[1918 in art]]''' - Death of [[Gustav Klimt]], [[Egon Schiele]]
* '''[[1917 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Jacob Lawrence]], Death of [[Edgar Degas]], [[Albert Pinkham Ryder]]
* '''[[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 (sculptor)|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 (painter)|Francis Bacon]], [[Clement Greenberg]], [[Henri Matisse]] completes ''[[The Dance (painting)|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]]
* '''[[1907 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Frida Kahlo]], [[Leo Castelli]], [[Charles Alston]], [[Lee Miller]]; [[Pablo Picasso]] paints ''[[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon]]''
* '''[[1906 in art]]''' - Death of [[Paul Cézanne]], Birth of [[Philip Johnson]], [[David Smith (sculptor)|David Smith]]
* '''[[1905 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Ruth Bernhard]], [[Barnett Newman]]
* '''[[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 McNeil Whistler]]
* '''[[1902 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Ansel Adams]], [[I. Rice Pereira]], Death of [[Albert Bierstadt]], Death of [[James Tissot]]
* '''[[1901 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Alberto Giacometti]], Death of [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]
* '''[[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]], [[Rene 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]]''' - 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]]
* '''[[1888 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Josef Albers]], [[Seán Keating]], [[Giorgio de Chirico]], [[Vincent van Gogh]] begins his [[Sunflowers (series of paintings)|Sunflowers]] series; [[Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] - [[The Roses of Heliogabalus]]
* '''[[1887 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[Le Corbusier]]
* '''[[1886 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Diego Rivera]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]], [[Mies van der Rohe]];
* '''[[1885 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Jules Pascin]]
* '''[[1884 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler]]
* '''[[1883 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Charles Demuth]], [[Walter Gropius]], Death of [[Édouard Manet]]
* '''[[1882 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Edward Hopper]], [[George Bellows]], [[Georges Braque]]
* '''[[1881 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Fernand Léger]]
* '''[[1880 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Hans Hofmann]], [[Jacob Epstein]], [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], [[André Derain]], [[Arthur Dove]], 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]] completes [[Portrait of the Artist]]
* '''[[1877 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Marsden Hartley]], 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]]''' -
* '''[[1872 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Piet Mondrian]]
* '''[[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]]
* '''[[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]]'''
* '''[[1864 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]
* '''[[1863 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Edvard Munch]], [[Paul Signac]], Death of [[Eugène Delacroix]], [[Édouard Manet]] completes ''[[Le déjeuner sur l'herbe]]'', and ''[[Olympia (painting)|Olympia]],'' and exhibits them at the [[Salon des Refusés]] to public ridicule and artistic admiration
* '''[[1862 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Gustav Klimt]], [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] completes ''The'' ''[[Turkish bath]]''
* '''[[1861 in art]]'''
* '''[[1860 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Walter Sickert]], [[Grandma Moses]]
== 1850s ==
* '''[[1859 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Georges-Pierre Seurat]]
* '''[[1858 in art]]''' -
* '''[[1857 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Eugène Atget]]
* '''[[1856 in art]]''' - [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] completes ''Mme. 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 both public outrage and artistic admiration.
* '''[[1854 in art]]''' -
* '''[[1853 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] completes ''Princesse de Broglie''
* '''[[1852 in art]]''' - Death of [[John Vanderlyn]], [[John Everett Millais]] completes ''[[Ophelia (painting)|Ophelia]]''
* '''[[1851 in art]]''' - Death of [[J. M. W. Turner]]
* '''[[1850 in art]]''' - [[Jean-François Millet]] completes ''[[The Sower]]''
== 1840s ==
* '''[[1849 in art]]''' -
* '''[[1848 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Gustave Caillebotte]], Death of [[Thomas Cole]]
* '''[[1847 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Albert Pinkham Ryder]], [[Ralph Blakelock]]
* '''[[1846 in art]]'''
* '''[[1845 in art]]'''
* '''[[1844 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Thomas Eakins]], [[Mary Cassatt]], [[Henri Rousseau]]
* '''[[1843 in art]]'''
* '''[[1842 in art]]'''
* '''[[1841 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Berthe Morisot]]
* '''[[1840 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Claude Monet]]; Death of [[Caspar David Friedrich]]
== 1830s ==
* '''[[1839 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Paul Cézanne]], [[Alfred Sisley]]
* '''[[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]]''
== 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]]'''
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* '''[[1821 in art]]''' - [[John Constable]] completes ''[[The Hay Wain]]''
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== 1810s ==
* '''[[1819 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Gustave Courbet]]; [[Théodore Géricault]] paints ''[[The Raft of the Medusa]]'',
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* '''[[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]]''' - 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 ''[[La maja desnuda|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]]'''
* '''[[1792 in art]]''' -
* '''[[1791 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Théodore Géricault]]
* '''[[1790 in art]]'''
== 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]]''' -
== 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-Amédée-Philippe van Loo|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 [[Francois Girardon]]
* '''[[1714 in art]]''' -
* '''[[1713 in art]]''' - Birth: [[František Jakub Prokyš|František Prokyš]], [[Allan Ramsay (artist)|Allan Ramsay]], [[Richard Wilson (painter)|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]], [[Willem van de Velde the Younger|W. Velde the Younger]], Birth: [[William Hoare]], [[Louis-Michel van Loo|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]]
* '''[[1701 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Pietro Longhi]], [[Thomas Hudson]]
* '''[[1700 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Charles-Joseph Natoire]], Death of [[Pietro Santi Bartoli]]
== 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 ==
* '''[[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]]''' -
* '''[[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 Tanyū]]
* '''[[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]]
* '''[[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 (painting)|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Anthonyvandyckselfportrait.jpeg 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]]'''
*'''[[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 LeBrun]]
* '''[[1618 in art]]'''
* '''[[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 (Caravaggio)|Crucifixion of St. Peter]]''
== 1590s ==
* '''[[1599 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Diego Velázquez]], [[Anthony van Dyck]]
* '''[[1598 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Alessandro Algardi]], [[Francisco 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]]'''
* '''[[1584 in art]]'''
* '''[[1583 in art]]'''
* '''[[1582 in art]]''' - Birth of [[David Teniers the Elder]]
* '''[[1581 in art]]'''
* '''[[1580 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Frans Hals]]
== 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 Brueghel 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jacopo_Tintoretto_004.jpg 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]]''' - 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 Brueghel the Elder]]
* '''[[1524 in art]]'''
* '''[[1523 in art]]'''
* '''[[1522 in art]]'''
* '''[[1521 in art]]'''
* '''[[1520 in art]]''' - Death of [[Raphael]]
== 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 the [[Sistine Chapel]], 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 (Michelangelo)|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 (Michelangelo)|Pietà]]''
* '''[[1498 in art]]''' - [[Leonardo da Vinci]] completes ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|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]], [[Pontormo|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 ''[[The Haywain Triptych|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]]''' - 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]]'''
==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]]''' - Birth of [[Leonardo da Vinci]]
* '''[[1451 in art]]'''
* '''[[1450 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Hieronymus Bosch]], Death of [[Stefano di Giovanni|Sassetta]], [[Jean Fouquet]] completes [[Melun Diptych]]
== 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]]''' - Birth of [[Sandro Botticelli]]
* '''[[1444 in art]]''' - 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]]'''
* '''[[1438 in art]]'''
* '''[[1437 in art]]'''
* '''[[1436 in art]]'''
* '''[[1435 in art]]'''
* '''[[1434 in art]]''' - [[Jan van Eyck]] completes ''[[The Arnolfini portrait]]''
* '''[[1433 in art]]'''
* '''[[1432 in art]]''' - [[Jan van Eyck]] completes ''[[Ghent Altarpiece]]''
* '''[[1431 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Andrea Mantegna]]
* '''[[1430 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Carlo Crivelli]], [[Hans Memling]]
== 1420s ==
* '''[[1429 in art]]'''
* '''[[1428 in art]]''' - Death of [[Masaccio]]
* '''[[1427 in art]]'''
* '''[[1426 in art]]''' - [[Stefano di Giovanni|Sassetta]] completes ''[[St. Anthony Beaten by Devils]]''
* '''[[1425 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Simon Marmion]]
* '''[[1424 in art]]'''
* '''[[1423 in art]]'''
* '''[[1422 in art]]'''
* '''[[1421 in art]]'''
* '''[[1420 in art]]''' - 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]]''' - Death of [[Theophanes the Greek]]
==1400s==
* '''[[1409 in art]]'''
* '''[[1408 in art]]'''
* '''[[1407 in art]]'''
* '''[[1406 in art]]'''
* '''[[1405 in art]]'''
* '''[[1404 in art]]'''
* '''[[1403 in art]]'''
* '''[[1402 in art]]'''
* '''[[1401 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Masaccio]]
* '''[[1400 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Bernardo Martorell]]
==1390s==
* '''[[1399 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Rogier van der Weyden]], Completion of [[The Wilton Diptych]] <i>(Artist unknown)</i>
* '''[[1398 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Conrad 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]]''' - 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]]'''
* '''[[1338 in art]]'''
* '''[[1337 in art]]''' - Death of [[Giotto di Bondone]]
* '''[[1336 in art]]'''
* '''[[1335 in art]]'''
* '''[[1334 in art]]'''
* '''[[1333 in art]]'''
* '''[[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]]'''
*'''[[1307 in art]]'''
*'''[[1306 in art]]'''
*'''[[1305 in art]]'''
*'''[[1304 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Petrarch]]
*'''[[1304 in art]]'''
*'''[[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]]'''
* '''[[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]] <i>(exact date unknown)</i>
* '''[[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|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 language|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]]''' - 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 (painter)|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]]'''
* '''[[1118 in art]]'''
* '''[[1117 in art]]'''
* '''[[1116 in art]]'''
* '''[[1115 in art]]'''
* '''[[1114 in art]]'''
* '''[[1113 in art]]''' - Mosaic ''[[Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki]]'' completed
* '''[[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]]'''
* '''[[1084 in art]]'''
* '''[[1083 in art]]'''
* '''[[1082 in art]]''' - Birth of [[Emperor Huizong of Song|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]]'''
* '''[[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]]'''
== 1400s BC==
* '''[[1400 BC in art]]''' - Anon., [[Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming]]
== Neolithic ==
* '''[[7000 BC in art]]''' - [[Seated Goddess of Catalhuyuk]]
* '''[[7250 BC in art]]''' - Tradition of making [[Jericho#PPN_B|Plaster Skulls]] in [[Jericho]] and [['Ain Ghazal]] in the Levant.
* '''[[9000 BC in art]]''' - Engraving of [[Dabous Giraffes]] in [[Niger]]
== Paleolithic ==
* '''[[12,000 BC in art]]''' - Paintings created at [[Altamira (cave)|Altamira]]
* '''[[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 Willendorf]]; [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice]]: earliest ceramics created
* '''[[30,000 BC in art]]''' - paintings at [[Chauvet Cave]] in [[France]]; [[Lion man]] of [[Hohlenstein-Stadel]]
* '''[[40,000 BC in art]]''' - [[Mask of la Roche-Cotard]] created by [[neanderthal]]; [[Art_of_Oceania#Prehistoric|Pre-Estuarine Tradition]] begins at [[Ubirr]] in northern [[Australia]]
* '''[[80,000 BC in art]]''' - ''[[Nassarius]]'' [[Nassarius#Archeological_information|shell necklace]] and engraved [[red ochre]] pencil at [[Blombos Cave]], in [[South Africa]]
* '''[[120,000 BC in art]]''' - Engraved Bones at [[Oldisleben I]] site, [[Oldisleben]], [[Germany]]
* '''[[300,000 BC in art]]''' - [[Erfoud Manuport]]. fossil nautiloid shaped like human genitalia, found by hominid in [[Morocco]]
* '''[[500,000 BC in art]]''' - [[Venus of Tan-Tan]] and [[Venus of Berekhat Ram]] sculpted
* '''[[3,000,000 BC in art]]''' - Appearance of first [[manuport]], [[Makapansgat pebble]] with distinctive "staring eyes" markings and facial features deposited by hominid in dolerite cave in [[Makapansgat]] [[South Africa]]
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