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| 1590 |
| | | The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church | |
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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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| 1607 |
| | | Claudio Monteverdi presents Orfeo, the first opera to win a lasting place in the international repertory | |
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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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| 1608 |
| | | Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio | |
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