practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface
10 dated entries naming Painting, drawn from 10 separate years between 600 CE and 1888 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
600Yan Liben, Chinese painter (approximate date)source
7th century
673Yan Liben, painter and official of the Tang dynastysource
685Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (approximate date; d. 759 or 760)source
8th century
760Wu Daozi, Chinese painter (approximate date)source
9th century
867Lazarus Zographos, Byzantine monk and paintersource
10th century
934Dong Yuan, Chinese painter (approximate date)source
962Dong Yuan, Chinese painter (approximate date)source
18th century
1743January 3 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1657)source
1791March 20 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (d. 1863)source
19th century
1888December 23 – During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital in Arles in the south of France.source