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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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| 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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| 1618 |
| | | The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant | |
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| c. 1620 |
| | | The Dutch painter Frans Hals displays exceptional brilliance in his group portraits, including several of the civic guards of Haarlem | |
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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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