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c. 31,000 years ago

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c. 30,000 years ago

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c. 16,000 years ago

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c. 15,000 years ago

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c. 3100 BCE

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1850 BCE
c. 1600 BCE

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c. 1550 BCE

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c. 1525 BCE

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c. 550 BCE

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c. 100

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c. 250

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c. 600

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c. 650

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c. 698

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c. 1300

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c. 1305

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1308

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c. 1397

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c. 1400

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1412

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1423

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c. 1430

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1432

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1434

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1435

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1436

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c. 1443

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c. 1450

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Go to Uccello, Paolo (c.1397) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1452

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c. 1460

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c. 1465

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c. 1468

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c. 1470

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1472

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c. 1475

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c. 1480

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c. 1489
c. 1500

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1503

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c. 1505

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1508

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1509
1510

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Go to Giorgione (c.1477) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1517
1520

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c. 1525

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1526
1533

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c. 1565

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1577

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c. 1585
1587

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1604

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1608

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Go to Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640) [Art] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)

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c. 1615
1618

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c. 1620

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1622

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1623

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1624

Go to Poussin, Nicolas (1594–1665) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1625

Go to Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640) [Art] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)

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1627

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c. 1628

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1631

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1632
1634

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1636

Go to Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640) [Art] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)

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c. 1640

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1641

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c. 1645

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1653

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c. 1655

Go to Hooch, Pieter de (20 Dec. 1629) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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Go to Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y (1599–1660) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1656

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c. 1720

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1721

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1751

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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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c. 1754

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1755

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1757
c. 1758

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c. 1759

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c. 1760
1763
1764

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1768

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1774

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1775
1778

Go to Copley, John Singleton (1738?–1815) in The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)

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Go to Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth (16 Apr. 1755) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1783

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1786

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1789

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1790
c. 1792
1798

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1801

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1806
1808

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1815
1817

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1819

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1820
1827

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1832

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c. 1835

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1838
1839

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1846
1848
1849
1850
1855
1859
1866

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1869

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Go to Rousseau, Henri (21 May 1844) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1870
1871
c. 1873

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1874

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1875

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1879

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1883

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1885

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Go to Pointillism in The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art (1 ed.)

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1886
1888

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1889

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1891

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1895
c. 1900
1901

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1902
1905

Go to Matisse, Henri Emile Benoît (1869–1954) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Brücke, Die in The Oxford Companion to Western Art (1 ed.)

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Go to Matisse, Henri Émile Benoît (1869–1954) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Fauvism in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)

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1906

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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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1910

Go to Matisse, Henri (1869–1954) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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Go to Kandinsky, Wassily (1866–1944) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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1911

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Go to Mona Lisa [Art] in The Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)

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Go to Blaue Reiter, Der in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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1912

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Go to Duchamp, Marcel (28 July 1887) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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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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Go to orphism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Balla, Giacomo (18 July 1871) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1913

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1914

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Go to Tatlin, Vladimir (16 [28] Dec. 1885) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1915

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1916

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1917

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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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Go to De Stijl in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)

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1918

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1919

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1920

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1922

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Go to Rivera, Diego (1886–1957) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.)

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1924
1925

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1927

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1931

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c. 1932
1934
1937

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1938

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Go to Moses, Grandma (7 Sept. 1860) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1939
1945
1946

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Go to Nolan, Sir Sidney (22 Apr. 1917) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1947

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1951

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Go to Matisse, Henri (31 Dec. 1869) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1953

Go to de Kooning, Willem (24 Apr. 1904) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1957

Go to Boyd, Arthur (24 July 1920) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (4 ed.)

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1960
1962

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Go to Coventry in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.)

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1965

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1967
c. 1969

Go to rock art in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)

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1971
1988

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c. 1994

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1996
2000

Go to Kiefer, Anselm (8 Mar. 1945) in The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)

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