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Baroque period

By marcus_bragginz

  • A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio

    A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio

  • Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture

  • Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam

  • Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's

  • Jan Vermeer marries and begins a quiet career as a painter and art dealer in his home town of Delft

  • Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London

    Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London

  • Vivaldi publishes the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons

  • Shortly before his death J.S. Bach completes his Mass in B Minor, worked on over many years

  • By the time put of Domenico Scarlatti includes 555 sonatas, all but a few for his own instrument, the harpsichordof his death the prolific out

    By the time put of Domenico Scarlatti includes 555 sonatas, all but a few for his own instrument, the harpsichordof his death the prolific out