| TINTORETTO | Italian painter, d. 1594 |
| CARAVAGGIO | Italian painter, d. 1610 (10) |
| RAPHAEL | Italian painter, d. 1520 (7) |
| TITIAN | Italian painter, d. 1576 (6) |
| POUSSIN | French painter, Nicolas ___ (1594-1665) |
| CHARTRES | City where Henry IV was crowned, 1594 |
| SPENSER | Edmund ?, poet who authored 1594 work Epithalamion (7) |
| NASHE | Thomas ?, author of 1594 novel The Unfortunate Traveller |
| FROBISHER | Sir Martin --, c1535-1594, English explorer (9) |
| SYRACUSE | Home city of Egeon, father of the Antipholus twins in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1594) |
| THECOMEDYOFERRORS | Shakespeare's shortest comedy, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594 |
| SILKEN | Soft or lustrous hair; nickname for Thomas, Earl of Kildare who started 1594 rebellion (6) |
| BACON | English philosopher, d.1626 - Irish painter, d. 1992 (5) |
| FRANCIS | English philosopher, d. 1626 - Dublin-born painter, d. 1992 (7,5) |
| THOMAS | The Blue Boy painter, d. 1788 (6,12) |
| DALI | Spanish surrealist painter, d. 1989 (4) |
| BRAQUE | French cubist painter, d. 1963 (6) |
| STUBBS | Horse painter, d. 1806 (6) |
| PICASSO | Spanish painter, d. 1973 (7) |
| MATISSE | French painter d. 1954 (7) |
