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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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| 1679 |
| | | 19-year-old Alessandro Scarlatti has a great success in Rome with Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, the first of his 115 operas | |
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| 1689 |
| | | Young gentlewomen in Chelsea give the first performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas | |
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| c. 1695 |
| | | The first teacher of the virtuoso harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti is his father, Alessandro | |
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| 1697 |
| | | In his opera La Caduta de' Decemviri, Alessandro Scarlatti introduces a new form of prelude, later known as the Italian overture, which is an important stage in the development of the symphony | |
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