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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       
1608
 
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The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque       
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       
1629
 
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The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome        
Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's
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1634
 
  
Francesco Borromini begins work on his intricate baroque masterpiece, the Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-43), in Rome     
1654
 
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Queen Christina, a secret convert to Catholicism, abdicates in Sweden and travels to Rome      
1679
 
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19-year-old Alessandro Scarlatti has a great success in Rome with Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, the first of his 115 operas      
1709
 
   
In a friendly keyboard contest in Rome between Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, the result is a draw – Handel being the winner on the organ and Scarlatti on the harpsichord