This was the Baroque century that saw Rome produce the highest peaks of this style, thanks also to the rivalry between Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.
It was the period of gilded wood carving, of antique marble commissions, of chiaroscuro paintings by Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, Luca Giordano and Guercino.
But also the magnificent colours of the paintings of Bernardo Strozzi and Guido Reni.
