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c. 31,000 years ago

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c. 800

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c. 816

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c. 1080

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c. 1150

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c. 1220

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1395

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1412

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1452

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1517
1625

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1662

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c. 1720

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1721

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1751

Go to Chardin, Jean‐Baptiste Siméon (1699–1779) in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (1 ed.)

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1752

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1768

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1778

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1783

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1785
1789

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1801

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1806
1815
1820
1839

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1869

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1870
c. 1873

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1874

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1883

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1885

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1886
1888

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1889

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1901

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1902

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1904

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1905

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1906

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Go to Diaghilev, Sergei (1872–1929) in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance (1 ed.)

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1907

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c. 1908

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Go to Vauxcelles, Louis (1870–1943) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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c. 1909

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Go to Bakst, Léon (1866) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)

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1910

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1911

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1912

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Go to Braque, Georges (13 May 1882) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1913

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1914

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1916

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1917

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Go to Surrealism in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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Go to Modigliani, Amedeo (12 July 1884) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1919

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1924

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1925

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c. 1930

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1932

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1933

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1935

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1936

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1937

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c. 1941

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1943

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1947

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1957

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1959

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1985

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c. 1994

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