Timeline of art

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.
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2020s

2010s

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 Heyman n, Emily Mason, PHASE 2, Panamarenko, Alasdair Gray, Syd Mead, Oliviero Leonardi2018 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 Dumontier2017 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 Rollins2016 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 Kelly2014 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 Berthot2013 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, Chryssa2012 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 Meneeley2011 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 Frankenthaler2010 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

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 Graham2007 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 Rose2006 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 Hedrick2002 in art – Death of Inge Morath, Peter Voulkos, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice2001 in art – Death of Fred Hughes, O. Winston Link, Balthus, Hollis Sigler, David Sylvester, Italo Scanga, Mercedes Matter2000 in art – Death of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Edward Gorey, Jacob Lawrence, Stanley Boxer, Leonard Baskin, Gregory Gillespie; Hans Moller

1990s

1980s

1970s

1979 in art – Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Nelson Rockefeller, Norman Lewis, Lothar Wolleh, Sonia Delaunay, Peggy Guggenheim, 1978 in art – Death of Thomas B. Hess, Norman Rockwell, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Kallir1977 in art – Death of Charles Alston, Gertrude Abercrombie, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo. Centre Pompidou opens1976 in art – Birth of Jay Simeon; Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Burra1975 in art – Birth of Alick Tipoti; Death of Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Barbara Hepworth1974 in art – Death of Adolph Gottlieb, William C. Seitz, 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 Biennial1972 in art – Death of M. C. Escher, Joseph Cornell, Enrico Baj creates The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli1971 in art – Death of I. Rice Pereira1970 in art – Birth of Jenny Saville; Death of Rita Angus, Mark Rothko, Fritz Ascher, Eva Hesse, Roberto Longhi, Barnett Newman

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 painting1968 in art – Death of Marcel Duchamp, Kees van Dongen. Birth of Jules Trobaugh1967 in art – Death of Edward Hopper, René Magritte, Ad Reinhardt1966 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 Zamir Yushaev1964 in art – Death of Rico Lebrun, Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis1963 in art – Death of Georges Braque; Pop Art becomes increasingly popular; Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread1962 in art – Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, International exhibition of The New Realists in New York1961 in art – Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis1960 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

1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans1957 in art – Death of Jack Butler Yeats, Luisa Casati, Diego Rivera, David Bomberg Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun1956 in art – Birth of David D. Stern, Death of Marie Laurencin, Jackson Pollock1955 in art – Birth of Beau Dick, Jeff Koons, Akira Toriyama; Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Jasper Johns completes Flag, 1954 in art – Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas1953 in art – Death of Raoul Dufy, John Marin, Francis Picabia; Birth of Gidansda Guujaaw1952 in art – Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color field painting and Lyrical abstraction1951 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

1940s

1949 in art – Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II1948 in art – Birth of Eric Fischl, Hollis Sigler, Death of Arshile Gorky, Kurt Schwitters, George Ault1947 in art – Birth of Ronnie Landfield and James Schoppert; Death of Pierre Bonnard, Wilhelm Uhde, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century gallery1946 in art – Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, and Robert Davidson; Death of Arthur Dove1945 in art – Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato, death of René Gimpel1944 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 Crucifixion1943 in art – Death of Chaïm Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Camille Claudel, Maurice Denis, Beatrix Potter, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie1942 in art – Death of Séraphine Louis, Birth of Dan Christensen and Tony Hunt Sr.; Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century gallery1941 in art – Death of El Lissitzky, Birth of Bruce Nauman, Dale Chihuly, Death of Robert Delaunay1940 in art – Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Harry Watrous, Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard

1930s

1939 in art – Birth of Spider Martin1938 in art – Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, and Nathan Jackson; Death of William Glackens, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georges Rochegrosse1937 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 pianist1936 in art – Birth of Richard Estes, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella,1935 in art – Birth of Jim Dine, Don McCullin, Death of Charles Demuth, Paul Signac1934 in art – Birth of Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland1933 in art – Birth of Sam Gilliam, Yoko Ono, Franco Fontana, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin1932 in art – Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell1931 in art – Death of Helmut Kolle, Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann, Salvador Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory1930 in art – Birth of Jasper Johns, Death of Jules Pascin, Grant Wood paints ''American Gothic''

1920s

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 images1928 in art – Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt1927 in art – Death of Paul César Helleu, Juan Gris, Osmar Schindler, Armand Guillaumin, Eugene Atget, Birth of John Chamberlain, Wolf Kahn1926 in art – Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet1925 in art – Death of George Bellows; Birth of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, and Freda Diesing1924 in art – Birth of Kenneth Noland, André Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal1923 in art – Death of Elihu Vedder, Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Antoni Tàpies, Marcel Duchamp completes The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even1922 in art – Birth of Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul Klee produces Twittering Machine1921 in art – Piet Mondrian completes Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue1920 in art – Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, and Bill Reid; Death of Amedeo Modigliani

1910s

1919 in art – Death of Ralph Albert Blakelock, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Charles Lang Freer, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus1918 in art – Birth of Elaine de Kooning, Jane Frank; Death of Gustav Klimt, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Egon Schieleml1917 in art – Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth; Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Louis Édouard Fournier, Marcel Duchamp produces Fountain1916 in art – Birth of Louis le Brocquy and Ellen Neel; Death of Thomas Eakins; Dadaism started in Zürich1915 in art – Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden, Alberto Burri1914 in art – Birth of Nicolas de Staël, O. Winston Link1913 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, Pablo Picasso creates Still Life with Chair Caning1911 in art1910 in art – Birth of Franz Kline, Death of Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer

1900s

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 Cubism1908 in art – Death of Giovanni Fattori, Richard Gerstl, Daniel Sargent Curtis Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School first exhibit1907 in art – Birth of Frida Kahlo, Leo Castelli, Charles Alston, Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon1906 in art – Henri Matisse paints Le bonheur de vivre; Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith1905 in art – Birth of Ruth Bernhard, Barnett Newman, Fauvists first exhibit; Henri Matisse paints Woman with a Hat1904 in art – Death of Martin Johnson Heade, Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí1903 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'Automne1902 in art – Birth of Ansel Adams, I. Rice Pereira, Death of Albert Bierstadt, Death of James Tissot, Rodin's The Thinker cast1901 in art – Birth of Alberto Giacometti, Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso's Blue Period begins1900 in art – Birth of Yves Tanguy, Death of Frederic Edwin Church

1890s

1899 in art – Death of Alfred Sisley, Birth of Lucio Fontana, Isaac Frenkel Frenel1898 in art – Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, René Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim, and Carrie Bethel1897 in art – Paul Gauguin paints Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?1896 in art – Death of John Everett Millais1895 in art – Death of Berthe Morisot1894 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 Scream1892 in art – Death of Frederick Richards Leyland, Paul Gauguin paints When Will You Marry?; Birth of Stuart Davis1891 in art – Death of Georges-Pierre Seurat, Birth of Max Ernst, Otto Dix, George Ault1890 in art – Death of Vincent van Gogh, Birth of Giorgio Morandi, Paul Strand, Egon Schiele, Naum Gabo

1880s

1889 in art – Birth of Thomas Hart Benton, Rodin's The Burghers of Calais cast1888 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 Heliogabalus1887 in art – Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko, Andrew Dasburg, August Macke, Death of Hippolyte Bayard1886 in art – Birth of Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Clément Serveau1885 in art – Birth of Jules Pascin, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Roger de La Fresnaye1884 in art – Birth of Amedeo Modigliani and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; Georges Seurat paints Bathers at Asnières; Juan Luna paints the Spoliarium1883 in art – Birth of Jean Metzinger, Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Gino Severini, Death of Gustave Doré, Édouard Manet1882 in art – Birth of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georges Braque, Auguste Herbin, Umberto Boccioni. Édouard Manet paints A Bar at the Folies-Bergère1881 in art – Birth of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Henri Le Fauconnier, Carlo Carrà, Max Pechstein, Albert Gleizes1880 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

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 Hunt1878 in art – Birth of Augustus John, Mary Cassatt paints Portrait of the Artist, James Whistler sues John Ruskin for libel1877 in art – Birth of Marsden Hartley, Kees van Dongen, Death of Gustave Courbet1876 in art – Birth of August Sander1875 in art – Death of Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot1874 in art – Death of Mariano Fortuny, First Impressionist Exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon1873 in art – Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes; Birth of Willie Seaweed1872 in art – Birth of Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise1871 in art – Birth of Jack Butler Yeats, Death of Paul Kane, Whistler's Mother1870 in art – Birth of William Glackens, John Marin, and Lucy Telles

1860s

1869 in art – Birth of Henri Matisse, La Grenouillère (Monet)1868 in art – Birth of Édouard Vuillard1867 in art – Birth of Pierre Bonnard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Nellie Charlie; Edgar Degas completes Portrait of the Bellelli Family1866 in art – Birth of Wassily Kandinsky1865 in art – Work completed1864 in art – Birth of Toulouse-Lautrec1863 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 admiration1862 in art – Birth of Gustav Klimt, The Railway Station, The Turkish Bath 1861 in art – Manet first accepted by Salon (Paris)1860 in art – Birth of Walter Sickert, Grandma Moses

1850s

1859 in art – Birth of Georges-Pierre Seurat1858 in art – Death of Hiroshige1857 in art – Birth of Eugène Atget, Louis Édouard Fournier1856 in art – Ingres completes Portrait of Madame Moitessier1855 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 Morgan1854 in art – La rencontre, Ramsgate Sands, The Light of the World (Holman Hunt)1853 in art – Birth of Vincent van Gogh, Ingres completes Princesse Albert de Broglie1852 in art – Death of John Vanderlyn, John Everett Millais completes Ophelia1851 in art – Death of J. M. W. Turner1850 in art – Jean-François Millet completes ''The Sower''

1840s

1849 in art – Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood first exhibits1848 in art – Birth of Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Death of Thomas Cole1847 in art – Birth of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ralph Albert Blakelock1846 in art1845 in art1844 in art – Birth of Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau, and Edmonia Lewis; J. M. W. Turner paints Rain, Steam and Speed1843 in art1842 in art – J. M. W. Turner paints Peace – Burial at Sea1841 in art – Birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Collapsible zinc oil paint tube invented1840 in art – Birth of Claude Monet; Death of Caspar David Friedrich

1830s

1839 in art – Birth of Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, and Charles Edenshaw; J. M. W. Turner paints The Fighting Temeraire1838 in art1837 in art – Death of François Gérard, John Constable1836 in art – Birth of Winslow Homer1835 in art 1834 in art – Birth of Edgar Degas, James McNeill Whistler1833 in art 1832 in art – Birth of Édouard Manet1831 in art – The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai1830 in art – Birth of Camille Pissarro, Albert Bierstadt, Eugène Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People; Hokusai paints ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa''

1820s

1829 in art – Birth of Anselm Feuerbach, John Everett Millais, and Dat So La Lee1828 in art – Death of Francisco Goya1827 in art – Death of William Blake1826 in art – Birth of Frederic Edwin Church1825 in art – Birth of Hans Gude, Death of Jacques-Louis David1824 in art – Death of Théodore Géricault1823 in art - Birth of Alexandre Cabanel1822 in art1821 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,1818 in art1817 in art1816 in art – Birth of Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets1815 in art1814 in art – Francisco Goya paints The Third of May 1808, Birth of Jean-François Millet1813 in art 1812 in art1811 in art 1810 in art – Francisco Goya begins painting his 82-piece series The Disasters of War; Birth of Paul Kane

1800s

1809 in art 1808 in art – William Blake completes Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve. Birth of Honoré Daumier1807 in art1806 in art – Death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard1805 in art1804 in art1803 in art 1802 in art – Death of Thomas Girtin1801 in art – Birth of Thomas Cole1800 in art – Francisco Goya paints ''The Naked Maja''

1790s

1799 in art1798 in art – Birth of Eugène Delacroix1797 in art1796 in art – Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot1795 in art1794 in art1793 in art – Jacques-Louis David paints The Death of Marat1792 in art1791 in art – Birth of Théodore Géricault, George Harley (painter)1790 in art – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered.

1780s

1789 in art1788 in art – Death of Thomas Gainsborough1787 in art – Death of Pompeo Batoni1786 in art 1785 in art 1784 in art1783 in art1782 in art 1781 in art1780 in art – Birth of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

1770s

1779 in art – Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin1778 in art1777 in art1776 in art – Birth of John Vanderlyn, John Constable1775 in art – Birth of J. M. W. Turner1774 in art – Birth of Caspar David Friedrich1773 in art1772 in art1771 in art1770 in art – Death of François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough paints ''The Blue Boy''

1760s

1769 in art1768 in art1767 in art 1766 in art1765 in art1764 in art 1763 in art1762 in art1761 in art – Birth of John Opie

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1750s

1759 in art1758 in art - Death of Bartolomeo Nazari1757 in art – Death of Rosalba Carriera, Birth of William Blake1756 in art1755 in art1754 in art1753 in art1752 in art1751 in art1750 in art – Death of Rachel Ruysch, Thomas Gainsborough paints ''Mr and Mrs Andrews''

1740s

1749 in art 1748 in art – Birth of Jacques-Louis David1747 in art 1746 in art – Birth of Francisco Goya, François-André Vincent1745 in art1744 in art 1743 in art1742 in art1741 in art

'''1740 in art'''

1730s

1739 in art1738 in art1737 in art1736 in art1735 in art 1734 in art1733 in art – Death of Nicolas Coustou1732 in art – Birth of Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Death of Christian Richter (painter, born 1678)1731 in art

'''1730 in art'''

1720s

1729 in art1728 in art1727 in art – Birth of Thomas Gainsborough1726 in art1725 in art1724 in art 1723 in art1722 in art – Death of Claude Gillot1721 in art – Death of Antoine Watteau

'''1720 in art'''

1710s

1719 in art – Death of Christoph Ludwig Agricola, Birth of Charles van Loo1718 in art – Birth of Alexander Roslin1717 in art1716 in art – Birth of Joseph-Marie Vien1715 in art – Death of François Girardon1714 in art 1713 in art – Birth of František Prokyš, Allan Ramsay, Richard Wilson1712 in art – Birth of Francesco Guardi 1711 in art – Birth of Carl Gustaf Pilo

'''1710 in art'''

1700s

1709 in art – Death of Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo1708 in art – Death of Ludolf Bakhuysen, Birth of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni1707 in art – Death of Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth of William Hoare, Van Loo1706 in art – Death of Luo Mu1705 in art – Death of Zhu Da, Birth of Charles-André van Loo1704 in art1703 in art – Birth of François Boucher1702 in art – Birth of Carlo Marchionni; end of Dutch Golden Age painting1701 in art – Birth of Pietro Longhi, Thomas Hudson1700 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

1699 in art – Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin1698 in art1697 in art1696 in art – Birth of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1695 in art1694 in art – Death of Filippo Lauri1693 in art1692 in art1691 in art1690 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 Watteau1683 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

1679 in art 1678 in art – Birth of Christian Richter1677 in art 1676 in art 1675 in art – Death of Johannes Vermeer1674 in art – Death of Kanō Tan'yū1673 in art – Birth of Claude Gillot1672 in art 1671 in art 1670 in art – Death of Viviano Codazzi

1660s

1669 in art – Death of Rembrandt1668 in art 1667 in art1666 in art – Death of Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer paints Girl with a Pearl Earring1665 in art – Death of Nicolas Poussin1664 in art1663 in art1662 in art1661 in art1660 in art – Death of Govert Flinck, Diego Velázquez

1650s

1659 in art – Rembrandt completes Jacob Wrestling with the Angel1658 in art1657 in art1656 in art – Diego Velázquez completes Las Meninas1655 in art1654 in art – Death of Alessandro Algardi1653 in art 1652 in art – Death of José Ribera1651 in art – Diego Velázquez completes the Rokeby Venus

'''1650 in art'''

1640s

1649 in art – Death of David Teniers the Elder1648 in art1647 in art – Birth of Jean Jouvenet1646 in art1645 in art1644 in art1643 in art 1642 in art – Rembrandt completes the Night Watch, Death of Guido Reni1641 in art1640 in art – Death of Peter Paul Rubens

1630s

1639 in art1638 in art – Death of Pieter Brueghel the Younger1637 in art1636 in art1635 in art1634 in art1633 in art – Anthony van Dyck completes Self-portrait with a Sunflower1632 in art – Birth of Johannes Vermeer1631 in art1630 in art – Diego Velázquez completes Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano

1620s

1629 in art – Birth of Pieter de Hooch1628 in art1627 in art - Death of Cardinal Francesco Del Monte1626 in art – Birth of Jan Steen1625 in art1624 in art – Frans Hals paints the Laughing Cavalier1623 in art1622 in art – Birth of Luo Mu1621 in art

'''1620 in art'''

1610s

1619 in art – Birth of Charles Le Brun1618 in art – Death of Fillide Melandroni, Velázquez paints The Waterseller of Seville1617 in art – Birth of Bartolomé Estéban Murillo1616 in art1615 in art – Death of Hans von Aachen1614 in art – Death of El Greco1613 in art1612 in art1611 in art1610 in art – Birth of David Teniers the Younger; Death of Caravaggio

1600s

1609 in art1608 in art1607 in art1606 in art – Birth of Rembrandt1605 in art1604 in art1603 in art1602 in art1601 in art1600 in art – El Greco completes View of Toledo, Caravaggio completes Crucifixion of St. Peter; start of Baroque art period

1590s

1599 in art – Birth of Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck1598 in art – Birth of Alessandro Algardi, Francisco de Zurbarán1597 in art1596 in art1595 in art1594 in art – Birth of Nicolas Poussin; Death of Tintoretto1593 in art – Birth of Jacob Jordaens; Death of Giuseppe Arcimboldo1592 in art1591 in art

'''1590 in art'''

1580s

1589 in art1588 in art – Birth of Hendrick ter Brugghen1587 in art1586 in art1585 in art – start of Flemish Baroque painting1584 in art – start of Dutch Golden Age painting1583 in art1582 in art – Birth of David Teniers the Elder1581 in art1580 in art – Birth of Frans Hals; end of Mannerism art period in Italy

1570s

1579 in art1578 in art1577 in art – Birth of Peter Paul Rubens1576 in art – Death of Titian1575 in art – Birth of Guido Reni1574 in art1573 in art1572 in art – Death of François Clouet, Agnolo di Cosimo1571 in art – Birth of Caravaggio, Death of Niccolò dell'Abbate, Benvenuto Cellini

'''1570 in art'''

1560s

1569 in art – Death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder1568 in art1567 in art 1566 in art1565 in art1564 in art – Birth of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Death of Michelangelo1563 in art1562 in art1561 in art - Death of Paul Dax, Luca Martini

'''1560 in art'''

1550s

1559 in art –1558 in art –1557 in art –1556 in art – Death of Girolamo da Carpi1555 in art –1554 in art –1553 in art –1552 in art – Birth of Hans von Aachen1551 in art –1550 in art –

1540s

1549 in art - Birth of Francesco Maria del Monte1548 in art – Tintoretto completes St Mark's Body Brought to Venice1547 in art 1546 in art 1545 in art 1544 in art 1543 in art – Death of Hans Holbein the Younger1542 in art 1541 in art – Michelangelo completes painting The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, Birth of El Greco

'''1540 in art'''

1530s

1539 in art 1538 in art – Death of Hans Dürer1537 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 Veronese1528 in art – Death of Matthias Grünewald1527 in art – Birth of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Death of Niccolò Machiavelli; Hans Holbein the Younger completes his Portrait ''of Sir Thomas More''1526 in art1525 in art – Birth of Pieter Bruegel the Elder1524 in art1523 in art1522 in art1521 in art1520 in art – Death of Raphael; start of Mannerism art period

1510s

1519 in art – Death of Leonardo da Vinci1518 in art – Birth of Tintoretto1517 in art1516 in art – Death of Hieronymus Bosch1515 in art – Matthias Grünewald completes the Isenheim Altarpiece1514 in art1513 in art1512 in art – Michelangelo completes painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Birth of Niccolò dell'Abbate1511 in art1510 in art – Birth of François Clouet, Death of Sandro Botticelli

1500s

1509 in art1508 in art1507 in art1506 in art – Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa 1505 in art1504 in art – Michelangelo completes the David, Hieronymus Bosch completes The Garden of Earthly Delights1503 in art – Birth of Agnolo di Cosimo1502 in art1501 in art – Birth of Girolamo da Carpi1500 in art – Birth of Benvenuto Cellini

1490s

1499 in art – Michelangelo completes the Pietà1498 in art – Leonardo da Vinci completes The Last Supper1497 in art – Birth of Hans Holbein the Younger1496 in art1495 in art – Tilman Riemenschneider sculpts Seated Bishop1494 in art – Birth of Ambrosius Holbein, Jacopo Pontormo; Death of Domenico Ghirlandaio1493 in art1492 in art – Death of Piero della Francesca1491 in art1490 in art – Birth of Hans Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch completes The ''Haywain Triptych''

1480s

1489 in art – Death of Simon Marmion1488 in art1487 in art1486 in art1485 in art – Birth of Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian, Urs Graf1484 in art1483 in art – Birth of Raphael1482 in art1481 in art – Death of Jean Fouquet1480 in art – Birth of Hans Baldung

1470s

1479 in art1478 in art1477 in art1476 in art – Death of Simonetta Vespucci1475 in art – Birth of Michelangelo, death of Paolo Uccello1474 in art1473 in art1472 in art1471 in art1470 in art – Paolo Uccello completes Saint George and the Dragon; Birth of Matthias Grünewald

1460s

1469 in art1468 in art1467 in art1466 in art – Death of Donatello1465 in art1464 in art – Death of Rogier van der Weyden1463 in art1462 in art – Birth of Piero di Cosimo1461 in art1460 in art – Paolo Uccello completes ''The Battle of San Romano''

1450s

1459 in art1458 in art1457 in art1456 in art1455 in art – Death of Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Ghiberti1454 in art1453 in art1452 in art – Braque Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet; Birth of Leonardo da Vinci1451 in art – Fra Angelico completes the frescoes of the Niccoline Chapel1450 in art – Birth of Hieronymus Bosch; Death of Stefano di Giovanni ; David with the Head of Goliath by Andrea del Castagno

1440s

1449 in art – Birth of Domenico Ghirlandaio1448 in art1447 in art – Death of Masolino da Panicale1446 in art – Birth of Pietro Perugino1445 in art – The Seven Sacraments Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden; Birth of Sandro Botticelli1444 in art – The Miraculous Draft of Fishes by Konrad Witz; Death of Robert Campin1443 in art1442 in art1441 in art – Death of Jan van Eyck1440 in art – Robert Campin completes ''The Annunciation''

1430s

1439 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of Margaret van Eyck; Birth of Cosimo Rosselli1438 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Madonna in the Church; Fra Angelico completes the San Marco Altarpiece1437 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Dresden Triptych1436 in art – Paolo Uccello completes the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood1435 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 Weyden1434 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Arnolfini Portrait, The Annunciation, and The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele1433 in art – Portrait of a Man in a Turban by Jan van Eyck; The Annunciation of Cortona by Fra Angelico1432 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Ghent Altarpiece and Léal Souvenir; Fra Angelico completes the Deposition of Christ1431 in art – Jan van Eyck completes the Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati; Birth of Andrea Mantegna1430 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon and the Crucifixion and Last Judgment diptych; Birth of Carlo Crivelli, Hans Memling, end of Medieval art art period

1420s

1429 in art1428 in art – Jan van Eyck completes Portrait of Isabella of Portugal; Death of Masaccio1427 in art1426 in art – Sassetta completes St. Anthony Beaten by Devils1425 in art – The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin; Birth of Simon Marmion1424 in art – Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale; Fra Angelico completes the Fiesole Altarpiece1423 in art1422 in art1421 in art1420 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

1419 in art1418 in art1417 in art –1416 in art1415 in art1414 in art1413 in art1412 in art1411 in art1410 in art – The Three Marys at the Tomb by Hubert van Eyck; Death of Theophanes the Greek

1400s

1409 in art1408 in art – The Transfiguration of Jesus by Theophanes the Greek; David (Donatello) by Donatello1407 in art1406 in art – Birth of Fillipo Lippi1405 in art1404 in art1403 in art1402 in art1401 in art – Birth of Masaccio1400 in art – The rock art at the Takiroa Rock Art Shelter; Birth of Bernat Martorell, Start of Quattrocento

1390s

1399 in art – Birth of Rogier van der Weyden, Completion of the Wilton Diptych '1398 in art – Birth of Konrad Witz1397 in art – Birth of Paolo Uccello1396 in art1395 in art – Birth of Fra Angelico1394 in art1393 in art1392 in art – Birth of Sassetta1391 in art1390 in art'''

1380s

1389 in art1388 in art1387 in art1386 in art – Birth of Donatello1385 in art – Birth of Jan van Eyck1384 in art1383 in art – Birth of Masolino da Panicale1382 in art1381 in art – Jaume Serra completes Descent into Hell

'''1380 in art'''

1370s

1379 in art1378 in art – Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti1377 in art – Birth of Filippo Brunelleschi1376 in art1375 in art – Birth of Robert Campin1374 in art – Death of Petrarch1373 in art1372 in art1371 in art

'''1370 in art'''

1360s

1369 in art1368 in art1367 in art1366 in art – Birth of Hubert van Eyck1365 in art1364 in art1363 in art1362 in art1361 in art

'''1360 in art'''

1350s

1359 in art1358 in art1357 in art1356 in art1355 in art – Birth of Melchior Broederlam1354 in art1353 in art1352 in art1351 in art

'''1350 in art'''

1340s

1349 in art1348 in art – Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains by Huang Gongwang; Death of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Pietro Lorenzetti1347 in art1346 in art1345 in art1344 in art – Death of Simone Martini1343 in art1342 in art1341 in art1340 in art – Birth of Theophanes the Greek

1330s

1339 in art – The Allegory of Good and Bad Government is finished by Ambrogio Lorenzetti1338 in art1337 in art – Death of Giotto1336 in art1335 in art1334 in art1333 in art – The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus1332 in art1331 in art

'''1330 in art'''

1320s

1329 in art1328 in art1327 in art1326 in art1325 in art – Birth of Puccio Capanna1324 in art1323 in art1322 in art1321 in art

'''1320 in art'''

1310s

1319 in art – Death of Duccio1318 in art1317 in art1316 in art1315 in art - Death of Giovanni Pisano 1314 in art1313 in art1312 in art1311 in art

'''1310 in art'''

1300s

1309 in art1308 in art – Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna1307 in art1306 in art1305 in art – The Scrovegni Chapel frescoes are made by Giotto1304 in art – Birth of Petrarch1303 in art1302 in art – Death of Cimabue '1301 in art1300 in art'''

1290s

1299 in art1298 in art1297 in art1296 in art1295 in art – The Muisca raft1294 in art1293 in art1292 in art1291 in art1290 in art – Birth of Ambrogio Lorenzetti

1280s

1289 in art1288 in art1287 in art1286 in art1285 in art – Rucellai Madonna by Duccio di Buoninsegnia1284 in art – Birth of Simone Martini, Nicola Pisano1283 in art1282 in art1281 in art1280 in art – Birth of Pietro Lorenzetti

1270s

1279 in art1278 in art1277 in art1276 in art – Death of Coppo di Marcovaldo1275 in art1274 in art1273 in art1272 in art1271 in art

'''1270 in art'''

1260s

1269 in art1268 in art1267 in art – Birth of Giotto di Bondone '1266 in art1265 in art1264 in art1263 in art1262 in art1261 in art1260 in art'''

1250s

1259 in art1258 in art1257 in art1256 in art1255 in art – Birth of Duccio di Buoninsegna1254 in art1253 in art1252 in art1251 in art1250 in art – The Etowah plates; Earliest date of the Moai of Easter Island

1240s

1249 in art – Death of Wuzhun Shifan 1248 in art1247 in art1246 in art1245 in art1244 in art1243 in art1242 in art1241 in art1240 in art – Birth of Cimabue ''''

1230s

1239 in art – Birth of Gaddo Gaddi1238 in art1237 in art1236 in art1235 in art1234 in art1233 in art1232 in art1231 in art

'''1230 in art'''

1220s

1229 in art1228 in art1227 in art1226 in art1225 in art – Nicholas of Verdun's The Shrine of the Three Kings is completed; Birth of Coppo di Marcovaldo1224 in art1223 in art – Death of Unkei1222 in art1221 in art

'''1220 in art'''

1210s

1219 in art1218 in art1217 in art1216 in art1215 in art – Birth of Bonaventura Berlinghieri1214 in art1213 in art1212 in art1211 in art

'''1210 in art'''

1200s

1209 in art1208 in art1207 in art1206 in art1205 in art – The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus stained glass done for Rouen Cathedral1204 in art1203 in art1202 in art1201 in art1200 in art – The Wulfing cache

1190s

1199 in art1198 in art1197 in art1196 in art1195 in art – Birth of Xia Gui1194 in art1193 in art1192 in art1191 in art

'''1190 in art'''

1180s

1189 in art1188 in art1187 in art1186 in art1185 in art1184 in art1183 in art1182 in art1181 in art1180 in art – Birth of Giunta Pisano

1170s

1179 in art1178 in art – Birth of Wuzhun Shifan1177 in art1176 in art1175 in art1174 in art1173 in art1172 in art1171 in art

'''1170 in art'''

1160s

1169 in art1168 in art1167 in art1166 in art1165 in art1164 in art1163 in art1162 in art1161 in art1160 in art – Birth of Ma Yuan

1150s

1159 in art1158 in art1157 in art1156 in art1155 in art1154 in art1153 in art1152 in art1151 in art – Birth of Unkei

'''1150 in art'''

1140s

1149 in art1148 in art1147 in art1146 in art1145 in art – Death of Zhang Zeduan1144 in art1143 in art1142 in art1141 in art

'''1140 in art'''

1130s

1139 in art1138 in art1137 in art1136 in art1135 in art1134 in art1133 in art1132 in art1131 in art1130 in art – Birth of Nicholas of Verdun

1120s

1129 in art1128 in art1127 in art1126 in art1125 in art1124 in art – Li Tang paints Wind in the Pines Amid Ten Thousand Valleys1123 in art1122 in art1121 in art1120 in art – The Genji Monogatari Emaki is produced.

1110s

1119 in art – Death of Wang Ximeng1118 in art1117 in art1116 in art1115 in art1114 in art1113 in art – Mosaic Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki completed; Wang Ximeng completes A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains1112 in art1111 in art

'''1110 in art'''

1100s

1109 in art1108 in art1107 in art1106 in art – Death of Li Gonglin1105 in art – Death of Huang Tingjian1104 in art1103 in art1102 in art1101 in art – Death of Su Shi1100 in art – Construction of Jaketown in Mississippi.

1090s

1099 in art1098 in art1097 in art1096 in art1095 in art1094 in art1093 in art1092 in art1091 in art1090 in art – Death of Guo Xi

1080s

1089 in art1088 in art1087 in art1086 in art1085 in art – Zhang Zeduan finishes Along the River During the Qingming Festival1084 in art1083 in art1082 in art – Birth of Huizong of Song1081 in art

'''1080 in art'''

1070s

1079 in art – Death of Wen Tong1078 in art1077 in art1076 in art1075 in art1074 in art – Guo Xi paints Early Spring1073 in art1072 in art1071 in art

'''1070 in art'''

1060s

1069 in art1068 in art1067 in art1066 in art1065 in art1064 in art1063 in art1062 in art1061 in art – Cui Bai paints Double Happiness

'''1060 in art'''

1050s

1059 in art1058 in art1057 in art1056 in art – The Pagoda of Fogong Temple1055 in art1054 in art1053 in art1052 in art – The Longxing Temple1051 in art – Death of Xu Daoning

'''1050 in art'''

1040s

1049 in art – Birth of Li Gonglin1048 in art1047 in art1046 in art1045 in art – Birth of Huang Tingjian1044 in art1043 in art1042 in art1041 in art

'''1040 in art'''

1030s

1039 in art1038 in art1037 in art – Birth of Su Shi1036 in art1035 in art1034 in art1033 in art1032 in art1031 in art

'''1030 in art'''

1020s

1029 in art1028 in art1027 in art1026 in art1025 in art1024 in art1023 in art1022 in art1021 in art1020 in art – Birth of Guo Xi

1010s

1019 in art – Birth of Wen Tong1018 in art1017 in art1016 in art1015 in art1014 in art1013 in art1012 in art1011 in art

'''1010 in art'''

1000s

1009 in art1008 in art1007 in art1006 in art1005 in art1004 in art1003 in art1002 in art1001 in art1000 in art – Birth of Yi Yuanji; Rock paintings at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park