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500 years of painting
(AND ONE ENGRAVING)
1510s
Hieronymous Bosch
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Hieronymous Cock
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pablo Picasso
1520s
Bernard van Orley
Before the Crucifiction
Pieter Coeck van Aelst
Pieter de Kempeneer
Jan Breugel the Elder
1530s
Jan Gossaert
Adoration of the Kings
Jan Steen
Camille Pissarro
Max Ernst
1540s
Pieter Coeck van Aelst
Adoration of the Magi
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Michiel Coxie
William Blake
1550s
Hieronymous Cock
Gluttony
Hieronymous Bosch
William Blake
Phillip Guston
1560s
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Hieronymous Bosch
Jan Breugel the Elder
Pieter de Hooch
1570s
Michiel Coxie
The Death of Abel
Pieter Coeck van Aelst
Charles Andre van Loo
Kent Williams
1580s
Pieter de Kempeneer
Descent from the Cross
Bernard van Orley
Edvard Munch
Wilhelm De Kooning
1590s
Jan Breugel the Elder
Garden of Eden
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Thomas Stothard
Max Ernst
1600s
Karel van Mander
Garden of Love
Jean Francois de Troy
Jean-Baptise Camille Corot
Arshile Gorky
1610s
Hendrik Goltzius
Cadmus Slays the Dragon
Jan Weenix
Henry Fuseli
Joshua Hagler
1620s
Frans Hals
The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company
Jean Baptiste Greuze
Edvard Munch
Arshile Gorky
1630s
Adriaen van Ostade
The Schoolmaster
Francois Boucher
Thomas Stothard
Theodore Gericault
1640s
David Teneris the Younger
Guardroom
Jan Gossaert
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Henry Fuseli
1650s
Pieter de Hooch
Courtyard with an Arbour
Pieter Coeck van Aelst
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Camille Pissarro
1660s
Jan Steen
The Way You Hear It Is the Way You Sing It
Jan Gossaert
Phillip Guston
Joshua Hagler
1670s
Jan Vermeer
The Love Letter
Eugene Delacroix
Charles Francois Daubigny
Edvard Munch
1680s
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
William III's Lowland Wars II
Joan Miro
Cicily Brown
Joshua Hagler
1690s
Aert de Gelder
Descent from the Cross
Hendrik Goltzius
Joseph Turner
Max Ernst
1700s
Jan Weenix
Game-piece: the Garden of a Chateau
Hendrik Goltzius
Joan Miro
Cicily Brown
1710s
Peter Tillemans
River Thames
Jean-Baptise Camille Corot
Camille Pissarro
Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz
1720s
Jean Antoine Watteau
Rural Feast
Thomas Stothard
Jean-Baptise Camille Corot
Camille Pissarro
1730s
Jean Francois de Troy
The Judgement of Paris
Karel van Mander
William Blake
Kent Williams
1740s
Charles Andre van Loo
Drunken Silenus
Michiel Coxie
Joshua Reynolds
Henry Fuseli
1750s
Francois Boucher
Allegory of Painting
Jan Gossaert
Hendrik Goltzius
Arshile Gorky
1760s
Jean Baptiste Greuze
Girl Weeping Over Her Dead Canary
Frans Hals
Adriaen van Ostade
Pablo Picasso
1770s
Joshua Reynolds
Collina
Jean-Baptise Camille Corot
Paul Gaugin
Georg Baselitz
1780s
Thomas Stothard
The Dance
Jan Gossaert
Jan Breugel the Elder
Charles Andre van Loo
1790s
William Blake
Eve Tempted by the Serpent
Hieronymous Cock
Jean Francois de Troy
Pablo Picasso
1800s
Henry Fuseli
Titania and Bottom
Hendrik Goltzius
Charles Andre van Loo
Max Ernst
1810s
Theodore Gericault
Evening Landscape with Aqueduct
Pieter Coeck van Aelst
David Teneris the Younger
Peter Tillemans
1820s
John Constable
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Jan Breugel the Elder
Peter Tillemans
Charles Francois Daubigny
1830s
Eugene Delacroix
Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains
Frans Hals
Jan Vermeer
Thomas Stothard
1840s
Joseph Turner
Fifth Plague of Egypt
Aert de Gelder
Jorg Immendorf
Kent Williams
1850s
Jean-Baptise Camille Corot
Repose
Karel van Mander
Frans Hals
Francois Boucher
1860s
Charles Francois Daubigny
Riverbank in Moonlight
Jan Vermeer
Jean Antoine Watteau
John Constable
1870s
Camille Pissarro
The Hermitage at Pontoise
Jan Breugel the Elder
Peter Tillemans
Arshile Gorky
1880s
Paul Gaugin
When Will You Marry
Pieter de Hooch
Joshua Reynolds
Georg Baselitz
1890s
Edvard Munch
Anxiety
Pieter de Kempeneer
Jan Vermeer
Wilhelm De Kooning
1900s
Pablo Picasso
Woman with Pigeons
Jean Baptiste Greuze
William Blake
Joshua Hagler
1910s
Max Ernst
Mundus est Fabula
Jan Gossaert
Aert de Gelder
Kent Williams
1920s
Joan Miro
Carnival of Harlequin
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Jan Weenix
Phillip Guston
1930s
Arshile Gorky
The Liver is the Cock's Comb
Karel van Mander
Frans Hals
Francois Boucher
1940s
Wilhelm De Kooning
Woman I
Pieter de Kempeneer
Pablo Picasso
Cicily Brown
1950s
Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz
Shapes in Space 2
Peter Tillemans
Charles Francois Daubigny
Pablo Picasso
1960s
Georg Baselitz
Der Hirte
Joshua Reynolds
Paul Gaugin
Kent Williams
1970s
Phillip Guston
The Rest is For You
Hieronymous Cock
Jan Steen
Joan Miro
1980s
Jorg Immendorf
Cafe Deutschland
Henry Fuseli
Joseph Turner
Max Ernst
1990s
Cicily Brown
High Society
Hieronymous Bosch
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Wilhelm De Kooning
2000s
Kent Williams
Sea Foam
Michiel Coxie
Jean Francois de Troy
Joseph Turner
2010s
Joshua Hagler
Red as Fever and White as a Ghost
Hendrik Goltzius
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Henry Fuseli
1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
1521
Ferdinand Magellan encounters the Phillipines
1543
Copernicus publishes his theory in which he argues that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
1605
Guy Fawkes' 'gunpowder plot' is foiled
1633
Galileo Galilei is tried
1651
English Civil War ends
1688
England becomes a constitutional monarchy
1692
Salem witch trials
1756
Seven Years War
1776
America declares independence
1789
French Revolution
1804
Napoleon becomes emperor of France
1848
The Communist Manifesto is published
1859
On the Origin of the Species is published
1861
American Civil War
1914
World War I
1936
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
1940
World War II begins
1962
Cuban missile crisis
1989
Berlin wall falls
2001
World Trade Center is attacked by Al-Qaeda