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| 1508 |
| | | Michelangelo begins work in Rome on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel | |
|  | Study for The Creation of Adam Michelangelo, c.1508
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| 1508 |
| | | Raphael is summoned to Rome by Julius II and is given a major commission for frescoes | |
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| 1520 |
| | | Luther's writings are burnt in Rome by order of the pope | |
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| 1527 |
| | | Pope Clement VII hides in Castel Sant'Angelo while Rome is sacked by German mercenaries | |
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| 1600 |
| | | A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio | |
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| 1604 |
| | | Annibale Carracci completes an influential ceiling fresco in the Farnese palace in Rome | |
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| 1608 |
| | | The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque | |
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| 1624 |
| | | Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism | |
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| 1627 |
| | | Claude Lorrain, basing himself like Poussin in Rome, paints classical landscapes suffused in light | |
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| 1629 |
| | | The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome | |
|  | Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's
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