Masterpieces: A Timeline of Art History

Posted on Feb 25, 2025 in French

Masterpieces: A Timeline of Art History

Medieval and Renaissance Art (c. 815 – 1604)

  • Artists Unknown, Oseberg Ship (Gripping Beasts), c. 815-820 CE. Wood. Oslo, Norway.
  • Duccio di Buoninsegna, Madonna and Child, c. 1290–1300 CE. Tempera and gold on wood. Siena, Italy.
  • Simone Martini, The Road to Calvary, c. 1340 CE. Tempera on panel. Italy.
  • Pietro Perugino, The Giving of the Keys to Saint Peter, c. 1482 CE. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy.
  • Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), Pietà, c. 1500 CE. Marble. Italy.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-06 CE. Oil on poplar panel. Italy.
  • Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533 CE. Oil on canvas. Germany.
  • Lavinia Fontana, Bianca degli Utili Maselli Holding a Dog and Surrounded by Six of Her Children, c. 1604. Oil on canvas. Italy.

Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical Art (1767 – 1814)

  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767. Oil on canvas. France.
  • John Singleton Copley, Thomas Mifflin and Sarah Morris (Mr. and Mrs. Mifflin), 1773. Oil on ticking. USA.
  • Angelica Kauffman, Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, 1785. Oil on canvas. Switzerland.
  • Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793 CE. Oil on canvas. France.
  • Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The 3rd of May 1808 or The Executions, 1814. Oil on canvas. Spain.
  • Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard, 1800-1801 CE. Oil on canvas. France.

19th and Early 20th Century Art (1863 – 1937)

  • Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas. France.
  • Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872 CE. Oil on canvas. France.
  • The Lumière Brothers, La Sortie des Ouvriers de l’Usine (Workers Leaving a Factory), 1898. Film. France.
  • Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, c. 1900. Oil on canvas. France.
  • Cecil Milton Hepworth, Rescued by Rover, 1905. Film. United Kingdom.
  • Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Oil on canvas. Spain/France.
  • Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907 CE. Oil on canvas. Austria.
  • Georges Braque, Still Life with a Pair of Banderillas, 1911. Oil on canvas. France.
  • Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912. Oil on canvas. Italy.
  • Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally, 1912 CE.
  • James Montgomery Flagg, I Want You for US Army, 1917. Chromolithograph on paper. USA.
  • Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un Chien Andalou, 1928. Film. Spain.
  • Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 CE. Oil on canvas. Spain.

Mid-20th Century to Contemporary Art (1960 – Present)

  • Richard Anuszkiewicz, Plus Reversed, 1960. Oil on canvas. USA.
  • Jim Fitzpatrick, Che, 1968. Lithograph and oil painting based on the 1960 photo by Alberto Korda. USA.
  • Artist Unknown, Propaganda Poster (Brother, you are forever most loved), c. 1970. Tempera on paper. Vietnam.
  • Nick Ut, The Terror of War, 1972. Photograph. Vietnam.
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, Notary, 1983. Oil on canvas.
  • Dinh Q. Lê, Untitled (Paramount), 2003 CE. C-print and linen tape. Vietnamese American, USA.
  • Cai Guo-Qiang (Chinese) and Zaha Hadid (Iraqi-British), Project for Lapland: Snow Show, 2004. Ice, snow, vodka, fire. Finland.
  • Sheila Pree Bright, Omar Rodriguez, age 18, from the series *Young Americans*, 2006 CE. C-print photograph. USA.
  • Imna Arroyo (Puerto Rican American), Ancestral Thread Series, Legacy, c. 2008 CE. Fabric and mixed media. USA.
  • Mina Momeni (Iranian Canadian), You Are Not Alone, Photograph series, 2007. Canada.
  • Joe McNally, Phan Thị Kim Phúc and her son, 2012. Photograph. USA.
  • Marina Abramović (Serbian), The Artist is Present, Performance art, 2012. USA.
  • Jain (Jeanne Louise Galice, French), Makeba, Music video, 2016. South Africa.