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| 1610 |
| | | Galileo, with his new powerful telescope, observes the moons of Jupiter and spots moving on the surface of the sun | |
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| 1613 |
| | | Galileo publishes his evidence, from sun spots, proving Copernicus right and Ptolemy wrong on the solar system | |
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| 1618 |
| | | The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings | |
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| 1621 |
| | | The first English newspaper (Corante) appears, promising reports 'from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France' | |
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| 1622 |
| | | Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture | |
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| 1622 |
| | | The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck begins a five-year stay, and a successful career as a portrait painter, in Genoa | |
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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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| 1632 |
| | | The Inquisition convicts Galileo of heresy and he denies the truth of Copernicus - on being shown the instruments of torture | |
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