Key moments in art

Machine generated contents note: Renaissance

Cimabue finds the young Giotto drawing on a rock

Ghiberti wins the competition to make doors for Florence Baptistery

Brunelleschi demonstrates linear perspective

Jan van Eyck completes the Ghent Altarpiece

Michelangelo unveils his monumental sculpture of David

Raphael applies to paint the pope's private quarters

Durer publishes his print of the rhinoceros

Emperor Charles V picks up Titian's brush

Early Modern

Iconoclasts attack Antwerp Cathedral

Veronese is interrogated by the Inquisition

Caravaggio murders a young man

French Academy is founded

Rembrandt declares bankruptcy

Velazquez is granted a knighthood

̀Hogarth's Act' grants engravers copyright in their work

David is commissioned to make a portrait of the assassinated revolutionary Marat

Louvre opens as a museum

Nineteenth Century

Parthenon Marbles go on show at the British Museum

William Blake sees the ghost of a flea

Constable wins a Gold Medal

invention of the Daguerreotype is made public

patent is issued for the collapsible paint tube

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is formed

Opening of the Salon des Refuses

Japan shows at the Exposition Universalle in Paris

Rodin defends himself

Cezanne's father dies

Monet buys his house in Giverny

Gauguin leaves for Tahiti

Vienna Secession is founded

Early Twentieth Century

term ̀Cubism' is coined

Futurist manifesto is published on the front page of Le Figaro

Mono Lisa is stolen from the Louvre

̀Der Blaue Reiter' exhibition opens

̀0,10' exhibition introduces Suprematism

Duchamp's Fountain is rejected

Brincusi's sculpture Bird in Space is seized by US customs

Premiere of Un Chien Andalou

Nazis open the ̀Degenerate Art Exhibition'

Frida Kahlo meets Andre Breton

Post-War

Pollock appears in Life magazine

Rauschenberg asks de Kooning for a drawing to erase

Warhol pays $50 for an idea

Kusama organizes a naked Happening on Wall Street

Beuys is shut in a gallery with a coyote

protest outside MoMA leads to the formation of the Guerrilla Girls

exhibition ̀Freeze' opens

Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet sells for a record price

Whiteread's House is demolished

Eliasson brings the weather inside Tate Modern.