The Selden Map of China
c. 1607-1624 · Black carbon ink
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Baroque
Artworks made the seventeenth century. 29 recorded, each with a cited chain of ownership. The era is read from the year on each record; the record's own date line is what counts.
29 artworks
Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion
ca. 1677-80 · Case
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves ("The Three Crosses")
1653 for the plate's first three states · Drypoint
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665 · Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis
The Astronomer
1668 · Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Departement des Peintures.