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Italian painting of the seventeenth century has long been neglected in the history of art, although it has produced a great quantity of work that belongs to the fundamentals of art history. The painters of the period were divided into two schools, the Eclectics and the Naturalists. The Eclectics sought to achieve their ideal in that they selected the best from the Masters of the past and attempted to combine these works with the aid of their own study of nature to produce a new beauty. The Naturalists believed that nature was the basis for everything and that it would arrange itself. The paths of both groups often crossed and the points of view occasionally melded together so that the individual actors can only be determined by the location of their activities and not according to their original schools.