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Timeline: Art and music
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- around 1503 The Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci begins the portrait of the Mona Lisa, now in the Louvre museum.
- 1512 The Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo finishes the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican after four years of work.
- 1725 Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi publishes The Four Seasons, four violin concertos that imitate spring, summer, autumn and winter.
- 1791 Mozart’s Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres his opera The Magic Flute in Vienna, a few weeks before his death.
- 1824 Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Beethoven, by now deaf, presents his Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy”.
- 1888 Van Gogh’s Sunflowers In Arles, Vincent van Gogh paints his famous bright yellow sunflowers.
- 1895 The first cinema screening In Paris, the Lumière brothers hold the first public, paying film screening.
- 1927 The first talking film With The Jazz Singer, audiences hear actors speak and sing in a feature film for the first time.
- 1937 Picasso’s Guernica Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a huge black-and-white canvas against the horrors of war.
- 1963 The Beatles’ first album The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, and become the most famous band in the world.
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