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Key moments in art
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Thames & Hudson
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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.
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9780500293621
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