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| 1632 |
| | | Van Dyck moves to London and becomes portrait painter to the British court and aristocracy | |
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| 1634 |
| | | Francesco Borromini begins work on his intricate baroque masterpiece, the Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-43), in Rome | |
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| 1634 |
| | | Rembrandt marries Saskia van Uylenburgh, who will feature in many of his paintings | |
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| 1636 |
| | | A painted ceiling by Rubens, celebrating the Stuart dynasty, is installed in the Banqueting House in Whitehall | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Jan Vermeer marries and begins a quiet career as a painter and art dealer in his home town of Delft | |
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| c. 1655 |
| | | Diego Velazquez paints his only surviving female nude, The Toilet of Venus (known as the Rokeby Venus) | |
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| 1656 |
| | | Velazquez, in Las Meninas, paints himself painting the king and queen of Spain | |
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| 1664 |
| | | Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Wood-carver Grinling Gibbons arrives from Holland to begin an immensely successful career in England | |
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