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1590
 
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The dome of St Peter's is finished, completing nearly a century of construction on Europe's largest church      
St.Peter's
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1600
 
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A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio        
1604
 
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Annibale Carracci completes an influential ceiling fresco in the Farnese palace in Rome       
1607
 
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Claudio Monteverdi presents Orfeo, the first opera to win a lasting place in the international repertory       
1608
 
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The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque       
1608
 
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Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio      
Rubens The Judgement of Paris (detail) c.1635
National Gallery, London

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