Caravaggio - Apex
Carrvagio
Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter, used to be credited for inventing oil painting.
Leonardo da Vinci is credited with being the first to use sfumato.
His name is James Hargreaves! To help out.... James Hargreavse was credited with inventing the "Spinning Jennifer" (spinning jenny) A device for spinning cotton. Jonathan Hargreaves is a cartoon artist. (not scrips, just characterizations)
Many would say Pablo Picasso but Georges Braque is also credited, both in the early part of the 20th century.
Kasimir Malevich, Russian artist/1915.
Overlapping
Chuck Close.
Claude Monet is famous for inventing Impressionism.
Michelangelo
the answer is Repetition