Versailles (1689)

Antoine Legrand's Scydromedia (1669)

Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus (1668)

Jean Racine's Andromaque (1667)

Molière's Misanthrope (1666)

La Rochefoucauld's Maximes (1665)

Molière's Tartuffe (1664)

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (1661)

Louis XIV (1661) established the Royal Academy of Dance

Louis XIV (1661) assumed personal control of the reins of government, upon the death of Mazarin

James Harrington's Oceana (1656)

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1652) came into Louis XIV's service

Piazza Navona (1644)

Louis XIV of France (1643-1715)

Andreas Gryphius' Sonnets (1637)

l'Académie française (1635)

Pierre Corneille's Médée (1635)

Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (1630)

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627)

St. Peter's Basilica (1626)

Tommaso Campanella's City of the Sun (1623)

Guillem de Castro's Mocedades del Cid (1621)

Johannes Valentinus Andreae's Christianopolis (1619)

Peter Paul Rubens' Hippopotamus Hunt (1616)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculptures (1612-1678)

Louis XIII (May 14, 1610-May 14, 1643)

Opera (1607)

Baroque (1600-1700)