Historical Archives & Public Figures

尾形光琳

Japan

c. 1658 – 1716 (58 years old)

Major Japanese painter and lacquer artist of the Edo period who revived and formalized the Rinpa school, world-renowned for his gold-leaf screens Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms.

Kyoto, Japan

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Arcangelo Corelli

Papal States (Italy)

1653 – 1713 (59 years old)

Italian Baroque composer and violin virtuoso who developed the modern concerto grosso and classical violin technique.

Rome, Italy

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

France

c. 1643 – 1704 (61 years old)

French Baroque master celebrated for his profound sacred choral polyphony, his collaboration with Molière on 'The Imaginary Invalid', and the iconic Eurovision anthem 'Te Deum'.

Paris, France

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Henry Purcell

England

1 – 1695 (36 years old)

Greatest English Baroque composer whose sublime theatrical music, anthems, and opera Dido and Aeneas defined British music.

London, United Kingdom

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Willem Kalf

Dutch Republic

1619 – 1693 (73 years old)

Foremost Dutch painter of pronkstilleven (sumptuous still lifes) whose dramatic chiaroscuro rendered peeled lemons, Ming porcelain, and Venetian glass with astonishing optical brilliance.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp

Aelbert Cuyp

🌐 Dutch Republic

1620 – 1691 (71 years old)

Dutch Golden Age landscape master renowned for his golden Mediterranean evening light bathing pastoral scenes of cattle, horsemen, and rivers around Dordrecht.

Dordrecht, Netherlands

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Giovanni Battista Lulli

Grand Duchy of Tuscany

1632 – 1687 (54 years old)

Florentine-born French Baroque master who dominated music at the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, founded French opera (tragédie lyrique), and established orchestral discipline.

Paris, France

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Pieter de Hooch

Dutch Republic

1629 – 1684 (54 years old)

Dutch Golden Age painter of Delft domestic tranquility whose mastery of open doorways, interior light (doorkijkje), and sunlit brick courtyards rivaled Johannes Vermeer.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Claude Lorrain

Claude Gellée

France

1 – 1682 (82 years old)

Master of idealized classical landscape and golden atmospheric light who transformed landscape into high fine art.

Rome, Italy

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Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael

Jacob van Ruisdael

🌐 Dutch Republic

c. 1628 – 1682 (54 years old)

Foremost landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age whose dramatic cloud-filled skies, churning waterfalls, and 'The Jewish Cemetery' infused nature with heroic poetics.

Haarlem, Netherlands

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Gerard ter Borch

Dutch Republic

1617 – 1681 (64 years old)

Dutch Golden Age master of delicate genre scenes and diplomatic history whose rendering of shimmering white satin and subtle psychological interactions was unmatched.

Deventer, Netherlands

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italy

7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680 (81 years old)

Titan of Roman Baroque art who transformed cold marble into supple flesh and fluttering silk in Apollo and Daphne and The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and designed St. Peter's Square colosseum-colonnade.

Rome, Italy

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Jan Havickszoon Steen

Dutch Republic

c. 1626 – 1679 (53 years old)

Dutch Golden Age master painter whose lively, humorous tavern and chaotic domestic scenes became so legendary that 'a Jan Steen household' became an enduring Dutch proverb.

Leiden, Netherlands

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Heinrich Schütz

Holy Roman Empire

1585 – 1672 (87 years old)

Father of German sacred music who studied with Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice, synthesized Italian polychoral grandeur with German Lutheran piety, and laid the foundations for Bach.

Dresden, Saxony

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn

Netherlands

15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669 (63 years old)

Titan of the Dutch Golden Age whose monumental civic masterpiece The Night Watch, profound etched biblical narratives, and lifelong series of honest self-portraits explored the deepest chambers of human vulnerability and psychological depth.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Francesco Castelli

Francesco Borromini

Switzerland

1599 – 1667 (67 years old)

Genius of Italian High Baroque architecture whose revolutionary curved, undulating geometric designs (San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza) rivaled Bernini.

Rome, Italy

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri

Il Guercino

Italy

1591 – 1666 (75 years old)

Master painter of the Bolognese Baroque celebrated for his dramatic naturalism, bold chiaroscuro, and dynamic illusionistic ceiling fresco 'Casino Ludovisi Aurora'.

Bologna, Italy

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