Painting Before Photography

Ancient Cave Paintings, Patagonia

Ancient Cave Paintings, France.

Link here to see images, maps and read.  

Egyptian Painting, Approx. 5000 BCE to 300 AD

The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490 - 1510, Bosch.

Approx. 12' x 7'

Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512, Michelangelo
Article from Smithsonian.com.  Link here.

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1600, Caravaggio.  

At the age of 24 Caravaggio commissioned to paint for the church. 

Read and see more here.

King Henry VIII, about 1537

Oath of the Horatii, 1784, Jacques-Louis David

The Death of General Wolfe, 1770, Benjamin West

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crafton, 1773, Benjamin West

Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, 1755, John Greenwood