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1510
 
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Giorgione and Titian introduce the richness of colour which characterizes the high Renaissance style in Venice       
c. 1510
 
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The startling colour contrasts in Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling anticipate one of the main characteristics of Italian mannerism        
1510
 
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The painter Giorgione dies after a short but extremely influential life in Venice      
Giorgione The Adoration of the Kings (detail)
National Gallery, London

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1517
 
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Leonardo da Vinci moves to France, on the invitation of Francis I       
c. 1520
 
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Mannerism develops in Italy in the work of the painters Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino       
1604
 
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Annibale Carracci completes an influential ceiling fresco in the Farnese palace in Rome       
1608
 
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The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque       
1622
 
   
The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck begins a five-year stay, and a successful career as a portrait painter, in Genoa      
Van Dyck The Balbi Children (detail) c.1626
National Gallery, London

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1624
 
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Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism       
Poussin Sleeping Nymph surprised by Satyrs (detail) c.1627
National Gallery, London

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1627
 
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Claude Lorrain, basing himself like Poussin in Rome, paints classical landscapes suffused in light