Timeline
1527................................................. Sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor
Charles V.
1535–1541....................................... Michelangelo frescoes his Last
Judgment on the altar wall of the
Sistine Chapel.
1545–1563....................................... Council of Trent; beginning of the
Catholic Counter-Reformation.
c. 1558 ............................................. Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel
the Elder.
1561................................................. Spain withdraws troops from the
Netherlands, leading to the rapid spread
of the Protestant Reformation.
1567................................................. Philip II of Spain re-invades the
Netherlands, intent on crushing
the Reformation.
1568................................................. Northern Netherlands revolts against
Spain; beginning of the Eighty Years’
War; Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter
Bruegel the Elder.
1575 í1675 ...................................... Golden age of Spanish painting.
c. 1580–1585 ................................... Founding of an anti-Mannerist teaching
academy in Bologna by Annibale,
Ludovico, and Agostino Carracci.
1585 í1590 ...................................... Papacy of Sixtus V; beginning of the
recovery of Rome after the Sack.
1590s ............................................... The Agony in the Garden by El Greco;
beginning of the Baroque in Italy.
c. 1596–1597 ................................... Rest on the Flight into Egypt
by Caravaggio.
1597–1600....................................... Frescoes of the Farnese Gallery, Rome,
by Annibale Carracci.