| |Netherlands |Rubens | | | |Van Dyck | | | |Grotius | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1650 |Britain |Cromwell | | | |Milton | | | |Bunyan | | | |Dryden | | | |Locke | | | |Hobbes | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |France |Pascal | | | |Racine | | | |Molière | | | |Fénélon | | | |Rochefoucauld | | | |Louis XIV. | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Germany |Leibnitz | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Netherlands |Spinoza | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Russia |Peter the Gt. & | | | | Catherine | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1700 |Britain |Swift | | | |Steele | | | |Addison | | | |Walpole | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Germany |Handel | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Scandinavia |Holberg | | +--------------+---------------------+ | 1750 |Britain |Chatham | | | |Burke | | | |Pitt and Fox | | | |Wesley | | | |Burns | | | |Goldsmith | | | |Sheridan | | | |Dr. Johnson | | | |Coleridge | | | |Flaxman | | | |Reynolds | | | |Gainsboro’gh | | | |Nelson | | | |Wellington | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |France |Voltaire | | | |Lavoisier | | | |Napoleon | | +--------------+---------------------+ | |Germany |Fredk the Gt | | | |Goethe | | | |Schiller | | | |Haydn | | | |Mozart | | | |Kant | | +--------------+---------------------+