Spanish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1612-1667 Related Paintings of MAZO, Juan Bautista Martinez del :. | The Artist's Family yu | View of Saragossa sgj | Infante Don Baltazar Carlos sth | The Hunting Party at Aranjuez | The Empress Dona Margarita de Austria in Mourning Dress h | Related Artists: John Garrick painted The Death of King Arthur in 1862 Johann Caspar Schneider Rhine valley by Johann Caspar Schneider in 1820 baron grimm German critic. He worked as a diplomat in Paris from 1749. Influenced by the Encyclopedists, he favoured the use of the Italian style in French operas (especially those of Rameau); in the Querelle des Bouffons of the 1750s he rejected all French music in favour of Rousseau, writing the satirical tract Le petit proph??te de Boehmischbroda (1753) and other works. He was a friend to the visiting Mozart family, 1763-4 and 1778.