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| | Rome and Southern Italy, 1600-1800 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Artemisia is one of a handful of Italian women artists to win great international acclaim during her lifetime and numbers among her patrons Cosimo II de' Medici, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Francesco d'Este I, and Charles I of England. |
 | | On a single surface, Cortona paints an illusionistic architectural frame that divides the plane into five sections; the unity of the fresco is retained, however, as figures from the scenes depicted in each of the sections reach, extend, and drift, unbounded. |
 | | The adornment of piazzas, palazzos, and structures of both official and private function with fountains, a practice that flourishes during this period, culminates with the completion of the most monumental fountain in Rome: the |
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