Art History Timeline

  • 1500 BCE

    masks of agememmon

  • 440 BCE

    Horsemen (from the Parthenon frieze), Athens, Greece,

  • 330 BCE

    Marathon Boy

  • 250 BCE

    lion capital of Colum- Ashoka Atsamatin

  • 220

    Wood block printings

  • 990

    Bi Sheng - Northern Song Dynasty

  • 1000

    Shiva as Nataraja, or Lord of the Dance.

  • 1285

    Duccio di Buoninsegna- Madonna Ruccelai

  • 1321

    Dante Alighieri

  • 1377

    Jikji - Moveable metal type

  • 1434

    Arnolfini Wedding- Jan Van Eyck

  • 1454

    Gutenberg Bible

  • 1475

    David- Michalengo di Lodovico

  • 1482

    Birth of Venus -Sandro Botticelli

    Birth of Venus -Sandro Botticelli
    Tempra on Canvas
  • 1495

    unicorn in Captivity

    My favorite !
  • 1508

    Michelangelo. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

  • 1519

    Titian-Pesaro Madonna

  • 1547

    Le Transi De René de Chalon- Ligier Richier

  • 1562

    The Triumph of death- Pieter Bruegel the Elder

  • Pietà - Michelangelo

  • Snake Goddess, Minoan, from the palace at Knossos,

  • sir Isaac newton

  • Jean-Honore Fragonard -The Swing

  • Kangra School. Radha and Krishna in the grove.

  • House of death

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Grande Odalisque,

  • The Raft of Medusa -The Odore Géricault

    oil on canvas
  • The Raft of Medusa -Theodore Greicault

  • John Constable - Hampstead Heath

  • John Constable - The Gleaners, Brighton

  • John Constable - The sea near Brighton

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • William Blake

  • Joseph Turner - three seascapes

  • Thomas Cole -The Course of Empire -The savage state

  • Thomas Cole- the Course of Empire-The Arcadian or pastoral state

  • Thomas Cole -The course of Empire -the consumption empire

  • thomas cole -Desolation

  • Joseph Mallord William Turner -Norham Castel, sunrise

  • Skoki the Demon -Utagama Kuisada

  • Olympia - Edouard Manet

  • Albert Munsell - Munsell color tree

  • The Gross Clinic- Thomas Eakans

  • Frederich Edwin Church- the Aegean Sea

  • At the Milliners -Edgar Degas

  • The Night Cafe- Vincent VanGogh

  • Josef Alber - color relatively

  • portrait of mime-Vincent Van Gogh

    oil on canvas
  • man ray

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner-The Banjo lesson

    one of the first African American artists to be recognized
  • Three Stages of Woman - Edvard Munch

  • Claude Monet - Rouen Cathedral

  • Mother and Child - Mary Cassatt

    Pastel on paper
  • Badshahi Mosque

  • Les Pemoiselles d'Auigon - Pablo Picasso

    oil on Canvas
  • Death and the Maiden - Marianne Strokes

  • nude descending a staircase - Marcel Duchamp

  • Antonio Gaudi-Casa Milá

  • Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith and Holofernes,

  • Constant Brãncusi - The newborn

  • fountain- Marcel Duchamp

  • Marcel Duchamp -Joseph Stella

  • Marlene - Hannah Hock

  • James Van Der Zee- Evening Attire

  • Yellow Calla- Georgia O'keeffe

  • Constantin Brãncusi - Bird in space

  • Georgia O’Keeffe. Yellow Calla,

  • Edward Weston. Artichoke, Halved,

  • Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater,

  • The Weeping Woman-Pablo Picasso

  • Frida Kahlo - The Two Friends

  • Joan Miró. The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,

  • Nighthawks - Edward Hopper

  • Isamu Noguchi - Leda

  • Edward Hopper. Nighthawks,

  • Isamu Noguchi -The kiss

  • Tree of Life - Henri Matisse

  • Flag-Jasper Johns

  • Pantene American

  • Suzy and Sun - Joseph Cornell

  • Morris Louis. Blue Veil

  • Blue veil - Morris Louis

  • Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe- Édouard Mane

  • Painted naked body- Yues Klein

  • Wayne Thiebaud. Pie Counter,

  • Twelve Electric Chairs- Andy Warhol

  • Isamu Noguchi - Slide Mantra

  • Marilyn Monroe- Andy Warhole

  • Richard Long -A line made by Walking

  • Frank Stella

    Acrylic on canvas
  • Robert Smithson - A nonsite, Franklin, New Jersey

  • Michael Heizer- Double Negative

  • Crinky- Alexander Calder

  • Bent propeller - Alexander Calder

  • Robert Smithson- Partially Buried Woodshed

  • Robert Smithson -Spiral Jetty

  • Nancy Holt - Sun tunnels

  • sos - Hannah Wilke

  • Interior Scroll - Carolee Schneeman

  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude -running fence

  • Walter De Maria- The Lightning Field

  • Romare Bearden- Quitling time

  • Golfbag- Marilyn Levine

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat -fallen angel

  • Fertility Series B- Keith Harring

  • Guerrilla Girls

  • Offering with Cili-Shaped Crown, Bali,

  • The Bitter nest- Faith Ringgold

  • Stereo Styles - Lorna Simpson

  • portrait - Yasmuasa Morimura

  • Immediate Family - Sally Mann

  • Genesis- Jaune Quick to-see Smith

    Mixed media on canvas
  • Catherine Opie. Justin Bond,

  • spider - Louise Bourgeois

  • Lorna Simpson Wigs

  • Kara Walker-Cotten hands in southern swamp

  • Maya lim-the wave field

  • Speechless-Shirine Neshat

  • Shirin Neshat. Speechless,

  • rank O. Gehry. Guggenheim Bilbao.

  • that profile -Martin Poryear

  • Eduardo Kac- GFP bunny

  • Andy Goldsworthy. Dandelion Line,

  • Easy to Remember- Lorna Simpson

  • Junk- Tony Oursler

  • Marlene Dumas - Stern

  • Dona Schlesier. Setting Cycles

  • Bear-Tim Hawkin

    370,000 pounds
  • The Master of Time- Richard Serres

  • Aqueous- Margret Lazzari

  • Stelarc- third ear

  • The NYC water-Olafr Ellasson

  • Fritz Haag -animal Estates

  • Nick Cave-Speak Louder

  • you are my sunshine- Wangechi Mutu

  • Nick Cave- Soundsuit

  • Kehinde Wiley -Napolean leading the army over the Alps