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1483
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Virgin of the Rocks
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1490
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Michelangelo working as apprentice sculptor and living at the Medici palace in Florence
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1495
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Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper
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1498
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Leonardo paints the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
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1503
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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8 Jun 1504
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Michelangelo's David installed outside the Palazzo Vecchio
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1507
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Leonardo da Vinci helps sculptor Giovanni Francesco Rustici create his bronze statues for the Florence Baptistery.
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1508
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Raphael leaves Florence to paint the Vatican Palace in Rome
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1508
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Leonardo da Vinci paints second version of The Virgin of the Rocks
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1525
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Birth of Pieter Bruegel
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1558
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Bruegel's most productive period
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1647
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Pope Innocent X (r. 1644-55) commissions a monumental fountain to support the ancient obelisk he moved from the Circus of Maxentius to the Piazza Navona. He excludes the well-known sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini from his request for designs, but Bernini cr
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1648
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Pope Innocent X grants the commission for the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, after being shown the artist's designs by Bernini's nephew.
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1651
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Fountain of the Four Rivers constructed
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1815
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Horses of St. Mark return to Venice from Paris
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1875
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Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi begins sculpting the Statue of Liberty
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1898
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Christopher Whall creates stained glass windows for Gloucester Cathedral
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1901
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Picasso's Blue Period
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1903
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Pablo Picasso paints La Vie, an emotional painting of the "Blue Period." Created following the suicide of a heartbroken friend, it expresses the suffering caused by romantic love.
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1906
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Picasso creates the first Cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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1907
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Development of Cubism
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1925
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First Surrealist Exhibition
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1 May 1937
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Picasso Paints Guernica
