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| 1597 | The Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci begins his ceiling frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, a key work in inspiring a new monumental and heroic style of history painting during the Baroque era. |
| 1600 | The Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, completes the Calling of St. Matthew for the Contarelli Chapel at the Church of S. Luigi dei Francesi. The work is widely admired for its realistic capturing of a crucial moment. |
| 1606 | Rembrandt van Rhijn, the greatest Dutch painter of the seventeenth century, is born in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. |
| 1613 | Claude Lorrain, who will become France's greatest Baroque landscape painter, arrives in Rome to begin studying painting. |
| 1618 | The Thirty Years' War begins in Central Europe. The conflict will bring widespread devastation and disrupt noble patronage of the arts. |
| 1621 | The Italian painter Francesco Barbieri, better known as... |
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