List of years in art

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This page indexes the individual year in art pages. See also Art periods.

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2000s

• 2009 in art
• 2008 in art
• 2007 in art - Death of Dan Christensen, Jules Olitski, Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Salvatore Scarpitta, Elizabeth Murray, Edward Avedisian, Andre Emmerich, Lenore Tawney, R. B. Kitaj, Ileana Sonnabend, Paul Brach, Robert Kulicke, Michael Goldberg
• 2006 in art - Death of Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard, Karel Appel
• 2005 in art - Death of Philip Johnson, former gallerist and curator David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, R.C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, and Arman; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park;
• 2004 in art - Death of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Agnes Martin, Tom Wesselmann, Leon Golub
• 2003 in art - Death of Kirk Varnedoe, Wally Hedrick. Artist John Trobaugh's exhibit was banned in Alabama from college gallery and labeled "dangerous" by its president Rogers.
• 2002 in art - Death of Inge Morath, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice, Works - Elizabeth Catlett - Ife.
• 2001 in art - Death of Balthus and O. Winston Link; Janet Cardiff - Forty-Part Motet
• 2000 in art - Death of Jacob Lawrence;

1990s

• 1999 in art - Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick
• 1998 in art - Death of Dick Higgins, John Krushenick, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize
• 1997 in art - Death of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Golden
• 1996 in art - Death of Dan Flavin
• 1995 in art - Death of Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves
• 1994 in art - Death of Sam Francis, Robert Doisneau, Donald Judd, Clement Greenberg
• 1993 in art - Death of Richard Diebenkorn, Hannah Wilke, Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize
• 1992 in art - Death of Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, Jeff Koons debuts Topiary Puppy
• 1991 in art - Death of Robert Motherwell, Berenice Abbott
• 1990 in art - Death of Joan Brown

1980s

• 1989 in art - Death of Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo
• 1988 in art - Death of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson
• 1987 in art - Death of Andy Warhol, Christian Lacroix opens his Paris fashion house
• 1986 in art - Death of Henry Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe
• 1985 in art - Death of Marc Chagall, Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
• 1984 in art - Death of Ansel Adams, Lee Krasner
• 1983 in art - Death of Joan Miró
• 1982 in art - Death of Wilfredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
• 1981 in art - Birth of Miru Kim
• 1980 in art - Death of Albert Kotin, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Oskar Kokoschka; Pablo Picasso retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, May 22, 1980 through September 16, 1980. The largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.

1970s

• 1979 in art - Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim
• 1978 in art - Death of Norman Rockwell
• 1977 in art - Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo
• 1976 in art - Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham
• 1975 in art - Death of Thomas Hart Benton
• 1974 in art - Death of Adolph Gottlieb
• 1973 in art - Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, the first Whitney Biennial
• 1972 in art - Death of Joseph Cornell
• 1971 in art - Death of I. Rice Pereira
• 1970 in art - Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse

1960s

• 1969 in art - Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
• 1968 in art - Death of Marcel Duchamp Birth of John Trobaugh
• 1967 in art - Death of Edward Hopper, Rene Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
• 1966 in art - Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology.
• 1965 in art - Death of Milton Avery, David Smith (sculptor), Le Corbusier, Birth of Damien Hirst
• 1964 in art - Death of Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis
• 1963 in art - Death of Georges Braque, Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread
• 1962 in art - Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, October 31 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounts The New Realists the first Pop Art group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in New York City, in a 57th Street storefront near the gallery at 15 E. 57th Street
• 1961 in art - Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis
• 1960 in art - Death of David Park, Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, as public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular

1950s

• 1959 in art - Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
• 1958 in art - Frank Stella begins Black Pinstripe Paintings
• 1957 in art - Death of Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats
• 1956 in art - Death of Jackson Pollock
• 1955 in art - Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
• 1954 in art - Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz
• 1953 in art - Death of John Marin
• 1952 in art - Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction
• 1951 in art - Death of Wols, Birth of Jack Spencer, Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of Abstract Expressionism.
• 1950 in art - Death of Christian Bang, Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm

1940s

• 1949 in art - Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II
• 1948 in art - Birth of Eric Fischl, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
• 1947 in art - Birth of Ronnie Landfield, Death of Pierre Bonnard, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery
• 1946 in art - Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, Death of Arthur Dove
• 1945 in art - Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato
• 1944 in art - Birth of Odd Nerdrum, Death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
• 1943 in art - Death of Chaim Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
• 1942 in art - Birth of Dan Christensen, Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century Gallery
• 1941 in art
• 1940 in art - Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard

1930s

• 1939 in art - Birth of Spider Martin
• 1938 in art - Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, Death of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Glackens
• 1937 in art - Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica
• 1936 in art - Birth of Richard Estes, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella,
• 1935 in art - Birth of Jim Dine, Don McCullin, Death of Charles Demuth, Paul Signac
• 1934 in art - Birth of Patrick Ireland
• 1933 in art - Birth of Sam Gilliam, Yoko Ono, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin
• 1932 in art - Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro
• 1931 in art - Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann
• 1930 in art - Birth of Jasper Johns, Death of Jules Pascin

1920s

• 1929 in art - Birth of Jules Feiffer, Claes Oldenburg, Nicholas Krushenick, Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo, the Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City
• 1928 in art - Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt
• 1927 in art - Birth of John Chamberlain, Wolf Kahn
• 1926 in art - Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet
• 1925 in art - Death of George Bellows, Birth of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell
• 1924 in art - Birth of Kenneth Noland, Andre Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal
• 1923 in art - Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein
• 1922 in art - Birth of Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn
• 1921 in art - Piet Mondrian completes Mondrian CompRYB.jpg
• 1920 in art - Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Death of Amedeo Modigliani

1910s

• 1919 in art - Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ralph Blakelock, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus
• 1918 in art - Death of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
• 1917 in art - Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder
• 1916 in art - Birth of Louis le Brocquy, Death of Thomas Eakins Dadaism started in Zürich
• 1915 in art - Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden
• 1914 in art - Birth of Nicolas de Staël, O. Winston Link
• 1913 in art - Birth of Wols, Birth of Robert Capa, Ad Reinhardt, The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
• 1912 in art - Birth of Morris Louis, Robert Doisneau, Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin, Tony Smith
• 1911 in art
• 1910 in art - Birth of Franz Kline, Death of Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer

1900s

• 1909 in art - Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism
• 1908 in art - Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson
• 1907 in art - Birth of Frida Kahlo, Leo Castelli, Charles Alston, Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
• 1906 in art - Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith
• 1905 in art - Birth of Ruth Bernhard, Barnett Newman
• 1904 in art - Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí
• 1903 in art - Birth of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Graham Sutherland, Joseph Cornell, Death of Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, James McNeil Whistler
• 1902 in art - Birth of Ansel Adams, I. Rice Pereira, Death of Albert Bierstadt, Death of James Tissot
• 1901 in art - Birth of Alberto Giacometti, Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• 1900 in art - Birth of Yves Tanguy, Death of Frederic Edwin Church

1890s

• 1899 in art - Death of Alfred Sisley
• 1898 in art - Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Rene Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim
• 1897 in art - Paul Gauguin paints Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• 1896 in art - Death of John Everett Millais
• 1895 in art - Death of Berthe Morisot
• 1894 in art - Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, Death of Gustave Caillebotte
• 1893 in art - Birth of Joan Miró, Chaim Soutine, Edvard Munch completes The Scream
• 1892 in art - Birth of Stuart Davis
• 1891 in art - Death of Georges-Pierre Seurat, Birth of Max Ernst, Otto Dix, George Ault
• 1890 in art - Death of Vincent van Gogh, Birth of Giorgio Morandi, Paul Strand, Egon Schiele, Naum Gabo

1880s

• 1889 in art - Birth of Thomas Hart Benton
• 1888 in art - Birth of Josef Albers, Seán Keating, Giorgio de Chirico, Vincent van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Roses of Heliogabalus
• 1887 in art - Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier
• 1886 in art - Birth of Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Mies van der Rohe
• 1885 in art - Birth of Jules Pascin
• 1884 in art - Birth of Amedeo Modigliani, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
• 1883 in art - Birth of Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Death of Édouard Manet
• 1882 in art - Birth of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georges Braque
• 1881 in art - Birth of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger
• 1880 in art - Birth of Hans Hofmann, Jacob Epstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Derain, Arthur Dove, Death of Anselm Feuerbach, Anton Mauve completes 'Changing Pasture'

1870s

• 1879 in art - Birth of Edward Steichen, Paul Klee
• 1878 in art - Birth of Augustus John, Mary Cassatt completes Portrait of the Artist
• 1877 in art - Birth of Marsden Hartley, Death of Gustave Courbet
• 1876 in art - Birth of August Sander
• 1875 in art - Death of Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
• 1874 in art - first Impressionist exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon
• 1873 in art
• 1872 in art - Birth of Piet Mondrian
• 1871 in art - Birth of Jack Butler Yeats, Death of Paul Kane, Whistler's Mother
• 1870 in art - Birth of William Glackens, John Marin

1860s

• 1869 in art - Birth of Henri Matisse
• 1868 in art - Birth of Édouard Vuillard
• 1867 in art - Birth of Pierre Bonnard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Degas completes The Bellelli Family
• 1866 in art - Birth of Wassily Kandinsky
• 1865 in art
• 1864 in art - Birth of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• 1863 in art - Birth of Edvard Munch, Paul Signac, Death of Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet completes Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, and Olympia, and exhibits them at the Salon des Refusés to public ridicule and artistic admiration
• 1862 in art - Birth of Gustav Klimt, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres completes The Turkish bath
• 1861 in art
• 1860 in art - Birth of Walter Sickert, Grandma Moses

1850s

• 1859 in art - Birth of Georges-Pierre Seurat
• 1858 in art - Birth of Medardo Rosso
• 1857 in art - Birth of Eugène Atget
• 1856 in art - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres completes Madame Moitessier
• 1855 in art - Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist's Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration.
• 1854 in art
• 1853 in art - Birth of Vincent van Gogh, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres completes Princesse de Broglie
• 1852 in art - Death of John Vanderlyn, John Everett Millais completes Ophelia
• 1851 in art - Death of J. M. W. Turner
• 1850 in art - Jean-François Millet completes The Sower

1840s

• 1849 in art
• 1848 in art - Birth of Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Death of Thomas Cole
• 1847 in art - Birth of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ralph Blakelock
• 1846 in art
• 1845 in art
• 1844 in art - Birth of Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau
• 1843 in art
• 1842 in art
• 1841 in art - Birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot
• 1840 in art - Birth of Claude Monet, Death of Caspar David Friedrich

1830s

• 1839 in art - Birth of Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley
• 1838 in art
• 1837 in art - Death of John Constable
• 1836 in art - Birth of Winslow Homer
• 1835 in art
• 1834 in art - Birth of Edgar Degas, James McNeill Whistler
• 1833 in art
• 1832 in art - Birth of Édouard Manet
• 1831 in art
• 1830 in art - Birth of Camille Pissarro, Albert Bierstadt, Eugène Delacroix paints Liberty Leading the People

1820s

• 1829 in art - Birth of Anselm Feuerbach, John Everett Millais
• 1828 in art - Death of Francisco Goya
• 1827 in art - Death of William Blake
• 1826 in art - Birth of Frederic Edwin Church
• 1825 in art - Death of Jacques-Louis David
• 1824 in art - Death of Théodore Géricault
• 1823 in art
• 1822 in art
• 1821 in art - John Constable completes The Hay Wain
• 1820 in art

1810s

• 1819 in art - Birth of Gustave Courbet, Théodore Géricault paints The Raft of the Medusa,
• 1818 in art
• 1817 in art
• 1816 in art
• 1815 in art
• 1814 in art - Francisco Goya paints the The Third of May 1808, Birth of Jean-François Millet
• 1813 in art
• 1812 in art
• 1811 in art
• 1810 in art - Birth of Paul Kane

1800s

• 1809 in art
• 1808 in art - William Blake completes Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve. Birth of Honoré Daumier
• 1807 in art
• 1806 in art - Death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 1805 in art
• 1804 in art
• 1803 in art
• 1802 in art - Death of Thomas Girtin
• 1801 in art - Birth of Thomas Cole
• 1800 in art - Francisco Goya paints the The Naked Maja

1790s

• 1799 in art
• 1798 in art - Birth of Eugène Delacroix
• 1797 in art
• 1796 in art - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
• 1795 in art
• 1794 in art
• 1793 in art
• 1792 in art
• 1791 in art Birth of Théodore Géricault
• 1790 in art

1780s

• 1789 in art
• 1788 in art - Death of Thomas Gainsborough
• 1787 in art
• 1786 in art
• 1785 in art
• 1784 in art
• 1783 in art
• 1782 in art
• 1781 in art
• 1780 in art - Birth of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

1770s

• 1779 in art - Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
• 1778 in art
• 1777 in art
• 1776 in art - Births of John Vanderlyn, John Constable
• 1775 in art - Birth of J.M.W. Turner
• 1774 in art - Birth of Caspar David Friedrich
• 1773 in art
• 1772 in art
• 1771 in art
• 1770 in art - Death of François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough paints The Blue Boy

1760s

• 1769 in art
• 1768 in art
• 1767 in art
• 1766 in art
• 1765 in art
• 1764 in art
• 1763 in art
• 1762 in art
• 1761 in art - Birth of John Opie
• 1760 in art

1750s

• 1759 in art
• 1758 in art
• 1757 in art - Birth of William Blake
• 1756 in art
• 1755 in art
• 1754 in art
• 1753 in art
• 1752 in art
• 1751 in art
• 1750 in art

1740s

• 1749 in art
• 1748 in art - Birth of Jacques-Louis David
• 1747 in art
• 1746 in art - Birth of Francisco Goya, François-André Vincent
• 1745 in art
• 1744 in art
• 1743 in art
• 1742 in art
• 1741 in art
• 1740 in art

1730s

• 1739 in art
• 1738 in art
• 1737 in art
• 1736 in art
• 1735 in art
• 1734 in art
• 1733 in art Death of Nicolas Coustou
• 1732 in art Birth of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 1731 in art
• 1730 in art

1720s

• 1729 in art
• 1728 in art
• 1727 in art - Birth of Thomas Gainsborough
• 1726 in art
• 1725 in art
• 1724 in art
• 1723 in art
• 1722 in art
• 1721 in art - Death of Antoine Watteau
• 1720 in art

1710s

• 1719 in art - Death: Christoph Ludwig Agricola, Birth: Charles van Loo
• 1718 in art - Birth of Alexander Roslin
• 1717 in art
• 1716 in art - Birth of Joseph-Marie Vien
• 1715 in art - Death of Francois Girardon
• 1714 in art
• 1713 in art - Birth: František Prokyš, Allan Ramsay, Richard Wilson
• 1712 in art - Birth: Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
• 1711 in art - Death: Szymonowicz-Siemiginowski, Birth: Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711-1793)
• 1710 in art

1700s

• 1709 in art - Death: Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo
• 1708 in art - Death: Ludolf Bakhuysen, Birth: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
• 1707 in art - Death: Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth: William Hoare, Van Loo
• 1706 in art - Death: Luo Mu (1622-1706)
• 1705 in art - Death: Zhu Da, Birth: Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765)
• 1704 in art
• 1703 in art - Birth of François Boucher
• 1702 in art - Birth of Carlo Marchionni
• 1701 in art - Birth of Pietro Longhi, Thomas Hudson
• 1700 in art - Birth of Charles-Joseph Natoire, Death of Pietro Santi Bartoli

1690s

• 1699 in art - Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
• 1698 in art
• 1697 in art
• 1696 in art - Birth of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
• 1695 in art
• 1694 in art
• 1693 in art
• 1692 in art
• 1691 in art
• 1690 in art

1680s

• 1689 in art -
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• 1687 in art -
• 1686 in art -
• 1685 in art -
• 1684 in art - Birth of Antoine Watteau
• 1683 in art -
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• 1681 in art -
• 1680 in art - Death of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor/architect

1670s

• 1679 in art -
• 1678 in art -
• 1677 in art -
• 1676 in art -
• 1675 in art - Death of Johannes Vermeer
• 1674 in art - Death of Kanō Tanyū
• 1673 in art -
• 1672 in art -
• 1671 in art -
• 1670 in art -

1660s

• 1669 in art - Death of Rembrandt
• 1668 in art
• 1667 in art
• 1666 in art - Death of Frans Hals
• 1665 in art - Death of Nicolas Poussin
• 1664 in art
• 1663 in art
• 1662 in art
• 1661 in art
• 1660 in art - Death of Diego Velázquez

1650s

• 1659 in art - Rembrandt completes Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
• 1658 in art
• 1657 in art
• 1656 in art - Diego Velázquez completes Las Meninas
• 1655 in art
• 1654 in art - Death of Alessandro Algardi
• 1653 in art
• 1652 in art - Death of José Ribera
• 1651 in art - Diego Velázquez completes the Rokeby Venus
• 1650 in art

1640s

• 1649 in art
• 1648 in art
• 1647 in art - Birth of Jean Jouvenet
• 1646 in art
• 1645 in art
• 1644 in art
• 1643 in art
• 1642 in art - Rembrandt completes the Night Watch, Death of Guido Reni
• 1641 in art
• 1640 in art - Death of Peter Paul Rubens

1630s

• 1639 in art
• 1638 in art - Death of Pieter Brueghel the Younger
• 1637 in art
• 1636 in art
• 1635 in art
• 1634 in art
• 1633 in art - Anthony van Dyck completes Self-portrait with a Sunflower
• 1632 in art - Birth of Johannes Vermeer
• 1631 in art
• 1630 in art - Diego Velázquez completes La fragua de Vulcano

1620s

• 1629 in art
• 1628 in art
• 1627 in art
• 1626 in art
• 1625 in art
• 1624 in art
• 1623 in art
• 1622 in art - Birth of Luo Mu (1622-1706)
• 1621 in art
• 1620 in art

1610s

• 1619 in art - Birth of Charles LeBrun
• 1618 in art
• 1617 in art - Birth of Bartolomé Estéban Murillo
• 1616 in art
• 1615 in art - Death of Hans von Aachen
• 1614 in art - Death of El Greco
• 1613 in art
• 1612 in art
• 1611 in art
• 1610 in art - Death of Caravaggio

1600s

• 1609 in art
• 1608 in art
• 1607 in art
• 1606 in art - Birth of Rembrandt
• 1605 in art
• 1604 in art
• 1603 in art
• 1602 in art
• 1601 in art
• 1600 in art - El Greco completes View of Toledo, Caravaggio completes Crucifixion of St. Peter

1590s

• 1599 in art - Birth of Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck
• 1598 in art - Birth of Alessandro Algardi, Francisco Zurbarán
• 1597 in art
• 1596 in art
• 1595 in art
• 1594 in art - Birth of Nicolas Poussin, Death of Tintoretto
• 1593 in art - Birth of Jacob Jordaens
• 1592 in art
• 1591 in art
• 1590 in art

1580s

• 1589 in art
• 1588 in art - Birth of Hendrick ter Brugghen
• 1587 in art