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Events relating to rome
Annibale Carracci completes an influential ceiling fresco in the Farnese palace in Rome
The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque
Nicolas Poussin arrives in Rome, where he develops the tradition of French classicism
Claude Lorrain, basing himself like Poussin in Rome, paints classical landscapes suffused in light
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
Francesco Borromini begins work on his intricate baroque masterpiece, the Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-43), in Rome
Evangelista Torricelli, observing variations in a column of mercury, discovers the principle of the barometer
Queen Christina, a secret convert to Catholicism, abdicates in Sweden and travels to Rome
Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's
19-year-old Alessandro Scarlatti has a great success in Rome with Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, the first of his 115 operas
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
French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20
Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism
English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style
Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years
Marie Louise gives birth to a boy, Napoleon's longed-for heir, to be known as the King of Rome
The Jesuit Order is restored by Pius VII on his return to Rome
Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville has its premiere in Rome
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed')
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome
An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta
