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25,000 BCE
Paleolithic Era
"Old Stone Age" -
1550 BCE
Mask of Agamemnon
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1323 BCE
Tutankhamun's Mask
Death mask of Egyptian pharaoh -
421 BCE
Porch of the Caryatids
Erechtheum, Acropolis, Athens, Greece -
79
Herculaneum papyri
Covered 79AD -
175
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Rome, Bronze, approx. 11’6 -
190
Unswept House (Unswept Floor)
Mosaic from the emperor Hadrian’s villa at Tovoli Sosus of Pergamon -
220
Woodblock Printing Emerges
Earliest examples of woodblock printing in China. -
235
First Images of Jesus Christ
Surfaced around Jerusalem -
390
Codex
examples of codex -
700
Portrait of Ezra
From the Codex Amiatinus. -
1100
Codex Gigas
Huge historic book with hints of original Catholic Bible. -
1285
Madonna Ruccelai
Created by Duccio di Buoninsegna - has perspective problems -
1310
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Duccio -
1314
Ognissanti Madonna
Giotto; artists are getting better at understanding perspective -
1321
Dante Alighieri
d. 1321 (death mask) -
1338
Detail of The Effects of Good Government
Ambrogio Lorenzetti - fresco in the City Hall of Siena -
1377
Jikji
Korea Moveable Metal Type – first known document using metalloid type -
Period: 1377 to 1446
Architect Fillio Brunelleschi
Linear Perspective - 1415 -
1400
Taecuinum Sanitatis
Medieval handbook focused on good health -
1425
Holy Trinity Masaccio
263’’ x 125’’ fresco -
1427
Bidding Farewell at the Tiger Hill
Shen Zhou, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) [Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 32 x 116 cm] -
1434
Arnolfini Wedding
Jan van Eyck. Oil painting -
1434
Emerald Buddha
Thailand -
1435
Alberti's On Painting
Della Pictura -
1436
Lucca Madonna
Jan van Eyck -
1440
Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press
first printing press able to produce more texts faster than ever known before -
1454
Gutenberg Bible
first ever mass produced Bible -
1470
Playing Chess with Death
Albertus Pictor. Fresco from Taby Church, Sweden -
1480
Carlo Crivelli
Tempura and gold on wood (religious painting about food) -
1490
Danse Macabre or Dance of Death
Janez iz Kastva -
1498
The Four Horseman
Printmaker Albrecht Durer; woodblock print 15 1/4 x 11 in. (38.7 x 27.9 cm) -
1509
School of Athens
Raphael; fresco -
1526
Adam and Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder -
1526
Pesaro Madonna
Titian -
1538
Venus of Urbino
Titian -
1547
Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
Ligier Richier -
1562
The Triumph of Death
Pieter Bruegel the Elder -
1563
Vegetables in a Bowl or the Gardener
Giuseppe Arcimboldo -
1564
David
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni -
1567
The Peasant Wedding
Pieter Bruegel the Elder -
1580
The Four Seasons
Giuseppe Arcimboldo -
Reversible Head with Basket of Fruit
Giuseppe Arcimboldo; oil on wood, 56 x 42 cm -
Pieta
Michelangelo -
Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
Juan Sanchez Cotan -
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
Frans Snyders; Flemish, 1579-1657 -
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi -
Vanitas Still Life with Self Portrait
Pieter Claesz -
Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens -
Still Life
Willem Claesz Heda; oil on wood -
Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II of Spain
Peter Paul Rubens -
Deathbed portrait of Christian IV, King of Denmark
Berent Hilwaetz -
The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer -
Self Portrait - Rembrandt
Rembrandt von Rijn -
Self Portrait - Rembrandt
Rembrandt von Rijn -
Self Portrait - Rembrandt
Rembrandt von Rijn -
The Dissolute Household
Jan Steen (Dutch, Leiden 1626-1679) -
Opticks
Sir Isaac Newton 1634-1747 -
Palace of Versailles
building -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough -
Period: to
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German -
Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini; oil on canvas, 67 3/4 x 90 1/2 in -
The Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard -
Opera House
E. L. Boulee -
Church
E. L. Boulee -
Church, Two Lighting Designs
E. L. Boulee -
Museum
E. L. Boulee -
Newton Cenotaph
E. L. Boulee; Day and Night -
Library
E. L. Boulee -
Period: to
Michel Eugene Chevreul
French -
Period: to
Louis Daguerre
daguerrotypes -
Stadium
E. L. Boulee -
Self-Portrait - David
Jacques-Louis David; oil on canvas, 63 x 52 cm -
Town Hall
E. L. Boulee -
The Death of Marat
Jacques Louis David -
Portrait of the Artist - David
Jacques-Louis David; oil on canvas, 81 x 64 cm -
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David -
House of Death
William Blake -
Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne
Jena-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
La Grande Odalisque
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -
Francisco de Self-Portrait
Goya y Lucientes; oil on panel, 51 x 46 cm -
The Raft of the Medusa
Theodore Gericault -
Self-Portrait with Doctor Arrieta - Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes; oil on canvas, 117 x 79 cm -
Hampstead Heath with Bathers
John Constable -
The Gleaners, Brighton
John Constable -
View from the Window at Le Gras
Joseph Nicephore Niepde; printed on metal plate (first known photograph) -
The Sea Near Brighton
John Constable -
Napoleon Bonaparte - Death mask
Death mask of Bonaparte -
William Blake
death mask, but still alive -
Three Seascapes
Joseph Mallord William Turner -
first "selfie"
first photograph of self -
Period: to
Ogden Rood
American -
The Savage State
Thomas Cole -
The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Thomas Cole -
The Consummation of Empire
Thomas Cole -
Destruction
Thomas Cole -
Desolation
Thomas Cole -
Ard de Triomphe
Jean Chalgrin, Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury -
Self Portrait - Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix; oil on canvas, 65 x 54.5 cm -
George Sand
Eugene Delacroix; oil on canvas, 79 x 57 cm -
First known photo of human being
Boulevard du Temple; guy getting his shoe shined -
Self Portrait - Courbet
Gustave Courbet; oil on canvas, 27 x 23 cm -
Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
Joseph Mallord William Turner -
The Desperate Man
Gustave Courbet -
Self Portrait with Striped Collar - Courbet
Gustave Courbet -
Osage Scalp Dance
Jon Mix Stanley -
Norham Castle, Sunrise
Joseph Mallord William Turner -
Self Portrait (The Cellist) - Courbet
Gustave Courbet; oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm -
Portrait of Baudelaire
Gustave Courbet; oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm -
Valley of The Shadow of Death
Roger Fenton -
Olympia
Edouard Manet -
Period: to
Albert Henry Munsell
American -
Portrait Among the Mandans
George Catlin -
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Edouard Manet -
The Harvest of Death
Timothy H. O'Sullivan; Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Woman With Parrot
Gustave Courbet -
The Artist in His Studio - Whistler
James Abbot McNeill Whistler; oil on paper mounted on panel, 63 x 46 cm -
First "Photoshop" offense
? -
Entree du village de voisins
Camille Pissaro -
Self Portrait at Sainte-Pelagie - Courbet
Gustave Courbet; oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm -
Self Portrait in a Peaked Cap - Cezanne
Paul Cezanne -
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins; considered one of the best paintings ever -
The Aegean Sea
Frederic Edwin Church -
L'Inconnue de la Seine
? -
Period: to
Arts and Crafts Movement
Disapproving of the speed of progress and factories, wanted products to be made with care by hand -
The Sick Husband
Vassily Maksimov -
Bar at the Follie Bergere
Edouard Manet -
The Potato Eaters
Vincent van Gogh -
Period: to
Dozens of Self Portraits - van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh; struggles with identity -
Vincent van Gogh
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; pastel on cardboard 54 x 45 cm -
They Did Not Expect Him
Repin -
The Night Cafe
Vincent van Gogh -
Portrait of the Artist's Mother - van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh -
Self Portrait with Yellow Christ - Gauguin
Paul Gauguin; oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm -
Self Portrait - Gauguin
Paul Gauguin; oil on wood, 79 x 51 cm -
Maternite
Marie Cassatt -
Portrait of the Artist's Mother - Cassatt
Marie Cassatt -
Period: to
Art Nouveau Movement
Inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and flowers -
The Banjo Lesson
Henry Ossawa Tanner - oil on canvas, 49 x 35.5 in -
The Three Stages of Woman (Sphinx)
Edvard Munch -
Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet -
The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne -
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
Self Portrait - Gauguin
Paul Gauguin; oil on canvas, 41 x 32 cm -
Self Portrait - Gauguin
Paul Gauguin; oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm -
Box Camera
first box camera -
Le Voyage Dean la Lun
Georges Melies -
Woman with Dead Child
Kathe Kollwitz -
He That Is Without Sin
Polenov -
Death and the Maiden
Marianne Stokes -
Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)
Egon Schiele -
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky -
Casa Milà
Antonio Gaudí - Architecture -
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Giorgio de Chirico; 69 x 85 cm -
The Banquet of the Starved or Comical Repast
James Ensor -
0.10 Exhibition
Supremacist Exhibition -
Black Square
Kazimir Malevich; oil on linen -
The Newborn
Constantin Brâncusi -
Fountain
Marcel Duchamp; this urinal is art because I say it is -- later photographed by Alfred Stieglitz -
Concealing
Abbot H. Thayer; coloration in the animal kingdom, an exposition of the laws of disguise through color and patterns -
Mina Loy Portrait
Man Ray -
Marlene
Hannah Hoch -
Monument to the Third International
Vladimir Tatlin -
The Kiss
Rayography -
Evening Attire
James Van Der Zee -
Dia de los Muertos
Diego Rivera -
Bird in Space
Constantin Brâncusi -
The Treachery of Images
Rene Magritte -
The Futurist Cookbook
F.T. Marinetti and Fillia -
Votivhild (Wureengel) or Votive picture (Strangled Angel)
Meret Oppenheim -
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
written by Walter Benjamin -
Migrant Mother with Three Children
Dorothea Lange -
The Luncheon in Fur
Meret Oppenheim -
From Series, Death
Kathe Kollwitz -
Haus der Kunst
art museum -
The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo -
Leda
Isamu Noguchi -
Freedom from Want
Norman Rockwell -
The Kiss
Isamu Noguchi - Alabaster -
SLR light camera
? -
Seated Man
Alberto Giacometti -
Period: to
Montien Boonma
Temple of the Mind; Nature's Breath: Arokhayasala; Lotus Sound; House of Hope; Breathing House; Salas for the Mind -
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercutbus)
Salvador Dali -
Pantone
American company -
The Seventh Seal Film
Ingmar Bergman -
IKB
Yves Klein's -
Replica of Dance of Death fresco
Vladimir Makuc -
Anthropometry of the Blue Period (ANT 82)
Yves Klein -
Walking Man I
Alberto Giacometti -
Déjeuner Sur L' Herbe
Pablo Picasso -
Prose Poems
Daniel Spoerri -
The Situationist International
influenced by Lettrists Movement from the 1940s; founded by Asger Jorn and Guy DeBord -
Literaturwurst
Dieter Roth -
Campbell’s Soup Cans
Andy Warhol -
Souriez Rue Froide
Asger Jorn -
Floor Burger
Claes Oldenburg -
Make a salad
Allison Knowles -
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers - German -
Kichka’s Breakfast
Daniel Spoerri - one of his most famous works -
Twelve Electric Chairs
Andy Warhol - acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 92 x 88 1/3 in. -
Triomphe de Moules I (Moules Caserole)
Marcel Broodthaers - iron pot, mussel shells and paint -
One and Three Chairs
Joseph Kosuth -
Worm Pyramid
Isamu Noguchi - Granite -
Slide Mantra
Isamu Noguchi - Botticino marble -
A Line Made by Walking
Richard Long -
Seated Woman and Child (Femme assise et enfant)
Juan Miro -
A Nonsite, Franklin, New Jersey
Robert Smithson -
Eden
Hélio Oiticica -
Double Negative
Michael Heizer -
The Door (Admissions Office)
David Hammons -
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson -
Partially Buried Wood-Shed
Robert Smithson -
Vietnam Referendum ’70 Committee, Let the People Vote on War!
From the Daniel Wolf Collection of Protest Portrait, offset lithography with pen and ink -
Fall 1, Los Angeles
Bas Jan Ader -
Fall 2, Amsterdam
Bas Jan Ader -
FOOD (restaurant)
Soho, NY – Carol Goodden, Tina Girouard, Gordon Matta-Clark -
The Rothko Chapel
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The Holy Mountain
Alejandro Jodorowsky - film -
Roden Crater
James Turrell -
Sun Tunnels
Nancy Holt -
Body Print
David Hammons -
S.O.S. Starification Object Series
Hannah Wilke – 1974-82 [10 b&w silver gelation prints and 15 chewing gum sculptures mounted on board] -
Invented Digital Cameras
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In Search of the Miraculous
Bas Jan Ader -
Interior Scroll
Carolee Schneeman - Performance -
Silueta Series
Ana Mendieta -
Bus Rider Series
Cindy Sherman -
House #3, Providence, Rhode Island
Francesca Woodman -
TV Buddha
Nam June Paik -
Running Fence
Christo and Jeanne-Claude -
The Lightning Field
Walter De Maria -
Quilting Time
Romare Bearden -
(Untitled) Fallen Angel
Jean-Michel Basquiat -
Vietnam War Memorial, Washington DC
Maya Lin -
Fertility Series B
Keith Harring - Silkscreen on Rives paper -
Immediate Family
Sally Mann - Series 1984-1991 -
Guerrilla Girls
Woman empowerment group founded 1985, centered around woman in art -
Relocate Destroy, In Memory of Native Americans, In Memory of Jews
Edgar Heap -
Performance Still
Mona Hatoum – walked barefoot with shoes tied to ankles -
Nicaragua
Nancy Spero - Hand printed collage on paper -
Higher Goal
David Hammons -
The Lone Wolf Recital Corps.
Founded in 1986 by Terry Adkins -
A Fire in My Belly
David Wojnarowicz - video and sound (4 mins) -
Immersion (Piss Christ)
Andres Serrano - photography -
Portrait (Futago)
Yasumasa Morimura -
Cornered
Adrian Piper -
Stereo Styles
Lorna Simpson -
Bismullah
Rasheed Araeen -
Just Seeds
Founded 1988: Justseeds Asrtists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement -
Untitled #215
Cindy Sherman -
Guarded Conditions
Lorna Simpson - [18 color Polaroid prints, 21 engraved plastic plaques & plastic letters, 91 x 131in] -
The Kitchen Table Series
Carrie Mae Weems -
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
India -
Picasso and Frederick’s of Hollywood
Nancy Spero - Hand printed collage on paper -
Untitled
Felix Gonzalez Torres - Portrait of Ross in L.A., 175 pounds of hard candy -
Monywa Buddhas (reclining)
Burma -
Four Untitled Etchings
Glenn Ligon -
Mining the Museum
Fred Wilson -
Modes of Transport
Fred Wilson -
The Temple of All Religions
Ildar Khanov - Kazan, Russia (Architecture) -
Untitled (Free/Still)
Rirkrit Tiravanija -
Couple in a Cage
Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Coco Fusco - Performance -
Spider
Lousie Bourgeois -
Faceless Women of Allah Series
Shirin Neshat -
Wigs
Lorna Simpson – Portfolio of 21 lithographs on felt, 6’ x 13’ x 6” -
Untitled
Rudolf Stingel – cast urethane rubber 18x21x9in -
New Mother Series
Rineke Dijkstra - Julie, Den Haag, Netherlands -
Electronic Superhighway Continental U.S.
Nam June Paik (father of video art) - Alaska, Hawaii -
The Wave Field
Maya Lin -
Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn
Ai Wei Wei -
The Chromatic Diet
Sophie Calle -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their heads
Yinka Shonibare -
First mobile phone camera
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Condition Report
Glenn Ligon -
GFP Bunny
Eduardo Kac -
Holocaust Memorial
Rachel Whiteread Judenplatz -
The Swing (after Fragonard)
Yinka Shonibare -
Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II
Kehinde Wiley -
Installation at 8th International Istanbul Biennial
Doris Salcedo -
S-21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machines
Rithy Panh -
Kodak switches to digital, later goes bankrupt
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Self Portrait Nursing
Catherine Opie -
The Green Line
Francis Alÿa -
Stern
Marlene Dumas -
Ice T
Kehinde Wiley -
Love
Maren Hassinger – shopping bags with love notes inside + inflated -
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Peter Eisenman – (HE BUILT DAAP!) -
Napoleon Leading the Army Over The Alps
Kehinde Wiley -
The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park, CA. 1935)
Ken Gonzalez-Day – From Erased Lynching Series 2006-2017 -
The Giant 2
David Altmejd -
Third Ear
Stelarc -
Shibboleth
Doris Salcedo - concrete and metal, 548 ft long -
Fountain of Light
Ai Wei Wei -
Momme Portrait Series (Shadow)
LaToya Ruby Frazier. – Gelatin silver photography, 15 ½ x 19 ½in. (39.4cm x 49.4cm) -
Untitled
Rodney McMillian -
Animal Estates
Fritz Haeg -
America
Glenn Ligon – neon sign and paint -
Monywa Buddhas (standing)
Burma -
Winter Solstice 2012 Dinner Party
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Untitled
Maurizio Cattelan - taxidermied horse, steel and felt-tip pen on wood, 55 x 201 x 189 cm -
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires
Mickalene Thomas – Rhinestone, acrylic and enamel on panel -
Blind Pig #3
Edgar Arceneaux – Acrylic, graphite on paper -
RGB Colorspace Atlas
Digital offset print on paper, case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges. Three books, 8 x 8 x 8 inches each -
Speak Louder
Nick Cave -
A Place for Nature
Maren Hassinger -
Jouvert
Deana Lawson – pigment print, 39 x 48in -
No Seconds
Henry Hargreaves – photography series -
Documentary: Never Sorry
Ai Wei Wei -
Sunday Night Dinner
Nicole Eisenman -
Standing Man
Erdem Guduz -
The Incidental Insurgents
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme -
Claim
Wiliam Pop L. -
Asphalt and Chalk
Titus Kaphar - Includes faces of Michael Brown, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, and Tray-von Martin (done in chalk on asphalt) -
THE LIVING NEED LIGHT, THE DEAD NEED MUSIC
The Propeller Group -
Invisible Presence – Bling Memories
Ebony G. Patterson -
Soundsuit
Nick Cave -
Monochrome Black History
Theaster Gates -
A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
Kara Walker -
You Are My Sunshine
Wangechi Mutu -
Canoe Kene Jaguar Pata Lamp Light
Ernesto Neto: Brazilian Artist -
Removal of US Confederate Monuments
Many people felt that these monuments supported racist Confederate ideology, and so had them removed. There is a huge scandal centered around whether or not this was the right thing to do, seeing as people are attempting to ignore or remove parts of history.
