Baroque period By marcus_bragginz 1600 A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio 1622 Bernini's youthful Pluto and Proserpina, suggesting soft flesh in cold marble, introduces the lively tradition of baroque sculpture 1631 Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam 1651 Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's 1653 Jan Vermeer marries and begins a quiet career as a painter and art dealer in his home town of Delft 1710 Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London 1726 Vivaldi publishes the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons 1737 Shortly before his death J.S. Bach completes his Mass in B Minor, worked on over many years 1751 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
