Die Forschungen von Renate Wagner-Rieger haben die Entwicklung der Kunstgeschichte im zentraleuropäischen Raum wesentlich angeregt, so auch in Kroatien, und dies gilt vor allem für die Architekturforschung. Die Texte von Wagner-Rieger aus den 1960er und 1970er Jahren hätten hochwahrscheinlich den Impuls für die Entwicklung der Barockforschung, besonders in Nordkroatien, gegeben. Als die wichtigsten Thesen von Wagner-Rieger, die in den kroatischen Forschungen zu beobachten sind, ist die Typologie der Jesuitenkirchen, die Đurđica Cvitanović (1924-2009) an Beispielen der Jesuitenarchitektur in Kroatien entwickelt hat und der Stilpluralismus als das wichtigste Stilmerkmal der Kunst der mariatheresianischen Epoche, bearbeitet in Texten von Anđela Horvat (1911-1985). The research of Renate Wagner-Rieger has influenced the whole Central European area, as well the development of art history in Croatia, especially architectural research. The texts by Wagner-Rieger from the 1960s and 1970s would most likely have given impulse to the development of Baroque research, especially in northern Croatia. The most important theses of Wagner-Rieger, which were adopted in Croatian research, are first of all the typology of the Jesuit churches, which Đurđica Cvitanović (1924-2009) developed further using examples of Jesuit architecture in Croatia, as well as the stylistic pluralism as the most important stylistic feature of the Art of the Mariatheresian Era in texts by Anđela Horvat (1911-1985). Istraživanja Renate Wagner-Rieger uvelike su utjecala na razvoj povijesti umjetnostiu Hrvatskoj, kao i u čitavom srednjoeuropskom prostoru, posebno na istraživanjearhitekture. Njezini su tekstovi iz 1960-ih i 1970-ih vrlo vjerojatno dali presudanimpuls za intenziviranje istraživanja umjetnosti baroknog razdoblja, posebno ukontinentalnoj Hrvatskoj. Najvažnije teze Renate Wagner-Rieger koje su utjecale naistraživanja u Hrvatskoj su one o tipologiji isusovačkih crkava, koju je primijenilaĐurđica Cvitanović (1924. - 2009.) te teza o pluralizmu stilova u umjetnosti marijoterezijanskog razdoblja, koju je primijenila Anđela Horvat (1911. - 1985.).