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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
 
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Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture       
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       
c. 1720
 
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Canaletto begins to specialize in views of the Venetian canals, finding his main customers among the British     
1751
 
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo begins a series of frescoes to decorate the prince bishop's residence in Würzburg       
c. 1754
 
   
Francesco Guardi, previously a painter of figures, begins to specialize in view of Venice, his native city      
Guardi An Architectural Caprice (detail)
National Gallery, London

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1782
 
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Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style