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33000 BC |
Av ivory carving dating to about this time depicted a busty woman. It was found in 2008 in a German cave and was unveiled in 2009 by archaeologists who believed it to be the oldest known sculpture of the human form. The carving found in six fragments in Germany's Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs and large, protruding breasts. Links: Artist, Germany, Women, HistoryBC 
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26000 BC 16000 BC |
Africa’s oldest known rock art dated to about this time at a site in Namibia. Links: Artist, Namibia, Anthropology, HistoryBC
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1030 |
Fan Kuan (b.960), Chinese artist, died. His work included “Travelers and Streams and Mountains.” Links: Artist, China
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1100 1200 |
The 16-foot scroll titled “Qingming Shanghe Tu” (Qingming Festival on the River) was created in the 12th century. It was believed to have been painted by Zhang Zeduan, an artist of the Song Dynasty. Links: Artist, China
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1267 |
Giotto (d.1337), Italian painter, was born about this time. Links: Artist, Italy
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1280 1354 |
Wu Chen, Chinese painter and master of calligraphy. He also mastered the play of void and presence at the heart of Chinese ink painting. Links: Artist, China
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1303 |
The Padova Chapel was completed. Giotto began painting a fresco cycle there with scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Links: Artist, Italy
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1305 |
Giotto finished a cycle of frescoes inside the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Links: Artist, Italy
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1337 Jan 8 |
Giotto (b.c.1267), Italian artist, died. His frescoes showed a new realism and vitality. Art historians later held that the Renaissance dawned in Florence with Giotto's paintings. He cracked the formal stylization of Byzantine painting and reinvented the ancient art of creating depth on a flat surface. In 2000 art historians found evidence that Pietro Cavallini re-introduced depth in his paintings in Rome around 1190. Links: Artist, Italy, Renaissance
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1348 Jun 9 |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (b.1290), Italian painter of the Sienese school, died. His work included the 3 murals titled “War,” “Peace” and “Good Government,” in the Chamber of Peace of Siena’s town hall. Links: Artist, Italy
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1370 |
Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter, was born about this time. Links: Artist, Russia
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1387 |
Fra Angelico (d.1455), Giovanni da Fiesole, Italian painter was born about this time. His work included the "Annunciation." The 1997 book "Fra Angelico" by John T. Spike was hailed as the art book of the year. Links: Artist, Italy
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1400 |
Roger Van Der Weyden (d.1464), Flemish painter, was born. Links: Artist, Netherlands, Flanders
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1405 |
Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter, painted the iconostasis of the Cathedral of the Gospel with Theophan the Greek; this was the 1st work executed in the classical Russian style, distinguished from the Byzantine by its great height and width and organization of multiple, varied icons along axes. Links: Artist, Russia
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1410 |
Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter, painted the icon “The Old Testament Trinity,” which showed Abraham’s 3 angels. This is the only work known to be entirely his own. Links: Artist, Russia
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1416 |
Nanni di Banco, guild member of the Masters of Stone and Wood, installed his “Four Crowned Martyr Saints” at the Orsanmichele guild center. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1423 |
Ghiberti’s sculpture of St. Matthew was installed at the Orsanmichele guild center in Florence. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1427 |
Gentile De Fabriano (b.~1378), Italian painter, died about this time. His work included “The Adoration of the Kings” (1423). Links: Artist, Italy
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1428 1430 |
Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter, took part in painting the frescoes of the Andronikov Monastery’s Church of the Savior. Links: Artist, Russia
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1430 Jan 29 |
Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter, died and was buried in the Andronikov Monastery. In 1966 the Russian film “Andrei Rublev” was made by Andrei Tarkovsky. Links: Artist, Russia
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1430 |
Hans Memling (d.1494), painter of the Flemish school, was born in Seligenstadt, Germany. Links: Artist, Germany, Flanders
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1441 Jun |
Jan/Johannes van Eyck (b.1395), Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), died in Brugge. Links: Artist, Belgium, Flanders
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1453 |
Piero della Francesca (1415/1420-1492) began work on the "Legenda della Vera Croce" (The Legend of the True Cross) at the church of San Francesco in Arezzo. He was commissioned by the Bacci family of Arezzo to complete the work begun by Bicci de Lorenzo. Links: Artist, Italy
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1455 Mar 18 |
Fra Angelico, Italian monk and Renaissance painter born around 1387 as Guido di Pietro, died. Fra Angelico gained a reputation as a painter under that name before joining the Dominicans in the 1420s. However, much of the influence found in his work is thought to come from Dominican teachings. He stayed at Dominican monasteries in Florence for most of his life doing a variety of religious painting until being called to Rome in 1445 by Pope Eugene IV, where he completed several chapel frescoes. Returning to Florence in the early 1450s, he died on a return visit to Rome in 1455 and is entombed at the church of Santa Maria della Minerva. In 1984 Fra Angelico was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Links: Artist, Italy, Renaissance
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1462 1464 |
Piero della Francesca, Italian artist, painted “The Resurrection” about this time. Links: Artist, Italy
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1464 Jun 18 |
Roger Van Der Weyden (b.1400), Flemish painter, died. He had mastered the new technique of oil painting and served as the official painter to the city of Brussels. Links: Artist, Belgium, Netherlands, Flanders
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1472 Mar 28 |
Fra Bartolommeo (d.1517), Florentine Renaissance painter, was born. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1472 |
Hans Memling painted “The Virgin and Child With St. Anthony Abbot and Donor.” Links: Artist, Germany, Flanders
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1475 1476 |
Petrus Christus (b. c1415), Netherlandish painter, died in Brugge. Links: Artist, Belgium, Netherlands
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1479 |
Gentile Bellini (1429-1507), Italian artist, was selected by the Venetian Republic to work at the court of the Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II, in Istanbul. Links: Artist, Italy, Turkey, Venice
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1482 |
Luca della Robbia (b.1400), Italian artist, died. Luca developed the art of enameled relief sculpture. Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525), his nephew and student, continued the work. Links: Artist, Italy
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1487 |
Hans Memling (c.1440-1494), Flemish painter, painted the diptych “Virgin and Child” and “Maarten van Nieuwenhove” (1463-1500), who was his patron. Links: Artist, Netherlands, Flanders
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1489 |
A sculpture St. George and the Dragon, created by Bernt Notke, was unveiled in Stockholm, Sweden. He composed the dragon entirely of elk horns. Links: Artist, Sweden
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1494 Aug 11 |
Hans Memling (b.1435), German-born master of Flemish painting, died in Brugge. Links: Artist, Germany, Flanders
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1500 |
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) of Nuremburg painted a self-portrait later described as the most gorgeous portrait ever painted. Links: Artist, Germany
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1503 |
Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) the Elder, German artist ( Saxony), completed his painting “The Crucifiction.” Links: Artist, Germany
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1505 |
Leonardo da Vinci painted “The Battle of Anghiari” on a wall in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. It commemorated a victory of Florentine forces over the ruling Medici. In 1563 the Medici, having regained power, hired Giorgio Vasari to cover up Leonardo’s work with a painting celebrating one of their own martial successes. It was later thought that Vasari hid the original behind his new work. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1505 |
Raphael painted his “Madonna of the Goldfinch” about this time for the wedding of a friend, Lorenzo Nasi. The painting was shredded in 1548 when Nasi’s palace collapsed. The work was pieced together and modern restoration, which began in 1999, was completed in 2008. Links: Artist, Italy
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1507 Feb 23 |
Gentile Bellini, Venetian artist, died. Links: Artist, Italy, Venice
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1507 |
Giorgione painted his “Sunset Landscape” about this time. Links: Artist, Italy
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1510 |
Bernard Pallissy (d.1590), French ceramicist, painter and writer, was born. Links: Artist, France, Writer, Ceramics
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1510 |
Giovanni Bellini painted “Virgin With the Blessing Child.” Links: Artist, Italy
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1510 |
Giorgione (b.~1478), Italian painter, died of the plague. He was a top student of Bellini and excelled in the paragone: a competition between painting an poetry, where painters sought to rival poets in conveying beauty. Titian finished Giorgione’s “Sleeping Venus.” Links: Artist, Italy, Poet
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1514 |
Giovanni Bellini painted “Feast of the Gods.” Links: Artist, Italy
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1517 Oct 6 |
Fra Bartolommeo (b.1472), Florentine Renaissance painter, died. He was a Dominican monk nicknamed Baccio della Porta. His work included a portrait of Savonarola. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1524 |
Hans Holbein the Elder (b. c1460), German-born artist, died in Eisenheim. Links: Artist, Germany
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1525 |
Andrea della Robbia (b.1435), Italian artist, died. He was the nephew and pupil of Luca della Robbia (1400-1482). Links: Artist, Italy
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1527 |
Giuseppe Arcimboldi (d.1593), Italian painter [Arcimboldo], was born. Links: Artist, Italy
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1540 |
Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) created his painting "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me" about this time In 2009 it was stolen from a Lutheran church in the southern Norway town of Larvik. It’s value was estimated at 15-20 million kroner ($2.1-$2.8 million). Links: Artist, Norway, Robbery
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1553 Oct 16 |
Lucas Cranach the elder (b.1472), German painter and graphic artist, died at 81. His work included "Madonna and Child in a Landscape." Links: Artist, Germany
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1554 1562 |
Pierre Eskrich (aka Pierre DuVase), a French illustrator, produced a collection of 218 bird paintings. He had fled Lyon to Geneva to escape the Edict of Chateaubriand (1551), a crackdown on Protestantism in France. Links: Artist, France, Switzerland, Birds
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1555 1636 |
Tung Ch’i-ch’ang, painter and master of calligraphy. He also mastered the play of void and presence at the heart of Chinese ink painting. Links: Artist, China
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1564 Feb 18 |
Michelangelo (b.1475), painter and sculptor, died in Rome. In 1996 George Bull wrote a biography and in 1999 James H. Beck published "Three Worlds of Michelangelo." In 2003 Ross King authored "Michelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling." In 2005 James Hall authored “Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body.” Links: Artist, Italy
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1564 Jun 22 |
A 3-ship French expedition under René de Laudonnière arrived in Florida and built Fort Caroline. French artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was part of the expedition. Links: Artist, France, Florida
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1565 Sep 20 |
A Spanish fleet under Pedro Menendez de Aviles wiped out some 350 Frenchmen at Fort Caroline, in Florida. Spanish forces under Pedro Menendez massacred a band of French Huguenots that posed a potential threat to Spanish hegemony in the area. They also took advantage of the local Timucuan Indian tribe. Artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues managed to escape and return to France, where he painted watercolors depicting the local botany. His alleged paintings of Indians living nearby were later thrown into question. Links: Artist, Spain, France, Florida, AmerIndian
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1565 |
The Vasari corridor was built in Florence to connect the Pitti Palace with the Uffizi Gallery. In 1664 Leopoldo de Medici began a collection of artists’ self-portraits and housed them in the corridor. Links: Artist, Italy, Florence
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1566 |
Gerolamo Bassano (d.1621), Italian artist, was born. His work included “The Sepulchre.” It was based on a larger altarpiece painted in 1574 by his father Jacopo Bassano and Francesco Bassano. In 2006 the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Maryland commissioned an x-ray of the work and found that it hid a portrait of a man in Renaissance clothing. Links: Artist, Italy, Renaissance
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1583 |
The painting “Newborn Baby in a Crib” by Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), Italian artist, was completed about this time. Links: Artist, Italy
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1585 |
Luca Cambiaso (b.1527), Genovese Renaissance painter, died in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, where he was working under commission for King Phillip II. Links: Artist, Italy, Spain, Renaissance
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1588 Apr 9 |
Paolo Veronese (b.1528), Italian painter, died in Venice. His paintings included “The Choice Between Virtue and Vice.” He was the son of sculptor Gabriele Caliari. Links: Artist, Italy, Venice
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