| Caravaggio | Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da, called Caravaggio after the town
from which his family came. 1571-1610. Italian painter who revolutionized pictorial tradition with strong contrasts accenting the vivid realism of his scenes. Greatly influenced the development of European painting. |
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| Georges de La Tour | 1593-1652. French painter renowned for the unmistakable originality of his style: skillfully organized plays of light, austere realism, simplified volumes. |
| Guido Reni | 1575-1642. Italian (Bolognese) painter. Disciple of Carracci. |
| Adriaen van der Werff | 1659-1722. Dutch painter. |
| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | 1683-1754. Italian (Venetian) painter, who had great influence on Tiepolo. |
| Carlo Rainaldi | 1611-1691. Italian architect of the High Baroque. |
| Giambattista Tiepolo | 1696-1770. Italian (Venetian) painter, decorator, and etcher. In his large-scale frescoes, the great clarity of color and deft draftsmanship make his figures seem to "fly" in airy space. |
| Filippo Juvarra | 1678-1736. Italian architect (Late Baroque and Early Rococo). |
| Carl-Philip von Greiffenclau | Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. |
| Eugene of Savoy | 1663-1736. Prince of House of Savoy, general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, notredfor his patronage of the arts. |
| Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt | 1668-1745. Austrian architect |
| Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer | 1689-1751. Bohemian architect (Late Baroque), who worked mainly in Prague where he finished (great dome and bell tower,1737-1751) the St. Nikolas Church of Mala Strana (Little Quarter), started by his father in 1703, and built St. Nikolas Church of the Old Town Square 1732-6. |
| Abbot Ruppert II | Benedictine monastic complex of Ottobeuren |
| Schmuzer (also spelled Schmuzzer and Schmutzer) | brothers Franz (1676-1741), decorator/stuccoer, and Joseph (1683-1752, architect and decorator/stuccoer, and Joseph's son Franz Xaver (1713-1775), decorator/stuccoer |
| Johann Georg Bergmüller | 1688-1762 Bavarian painter, teacher, printmaker and draftsman. |
| Johann Jakob Herkomer | 1648-1717. Bavarian architect, painter, and stuccoer. |
| Franz Xaver Schmädl | 1705-1777. Bavarian sculptor. |
| Ignaz Günther | 1725-1775. Bavarian architect and wood carver. |
| Dominikus Zimmermann | 1685-1766. Bavarian architect.1685-1766. |
| Anton Sturm | 1690-1757. Bavarian sculptor and stucco artist. |
| Joseph Effner | 1687-1745. Bavarian architect (Munich court architect) and decorator. |
| Johann Michaël Fischer | 1691-1766. Bavarian architect. |
| Josef Weinmüller | Bavarian stucco artist. |
| Johann Michaël II Feichtmayr | 1709-1772. Bavarian sculptor and decorator. |
| Karl-Eugen von Greiffenclau | Prince-Bishop of Ottobeuren. |