This timeline gives a summary of 3 different events that were related to the influence of ekphrasis, both prior to the publishing date of The Picture of Dorian Gray and after the fact. 

Use the timeline to provide a chronology that places your exhibits within a historical context.

This timeline will show the span of time in this novel's six chapters narrative Orlando's very long life, beginning in the Elizabethan Age. The span of time that Virginia Woolf assigns to her protagonist Orlando's life is fundamental to her commentary on gender and genre.