Art
Painters, composers, writers, and what they left behind.
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Julius CaesarRoman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
Wu ZetianEmpress of China from 690 to 705
Adolf HitlerDictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
Leonardo da VinciItalian polymath (1452–1519)
MichelangeloItalian artist and architect (1475–1564)
RembrandtDutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Katsushika HokusaiJapanese artist (1760–1849)
Vincent van GoghDutch painter (1853–1890)
Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
ConfuciusChinese philosopher (c. 551 – c. 479 BCE)
SocratesGreek philosopher (c. 470–399 BC)
CiceroRoman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)
Niccolò MachiavelliFlorentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
Adam SmithScottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)
Virgil1st-century-BC Roman poet
Li BaiChinese poet (701–762)
RumiSufi mystic and poet (1207–1273)
Dante AlighieriItalian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)
William ShakespeareEnglish playwright and poet (1564–1616)
VoltaireFrench writer and philosopher (1694–1778)
Leo TolstoyRussian writer (1828–1910)
Rabindranath TagoreIndian polymath (1861–1941)
Johann Sebastian BachGerman composer (1685–1750)
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer (1756–1791)
Ludwig van BeethovenGerman composer (1770–1827)
Louis ArmstrongAmerican jazz trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)- Walt DisneyAmerican animator, producer and entrepreneur (1901–1966)
AvicennaPersian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Florence NightingaleEnglish founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)- Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib1st Shia Imam and 4th Rashidun caliph (656–661)
Henry FordAmerican business magnate (1863–1947)
MadhubalaIndian actress (1933–1969)
Rudolph ValentinoItalian actor (1895–1926)
Sarah BernhardtFrench stage actress (1844–1923)
Vivien LeighBritish actress (1913–1967)
Humphrey BogartAmerican actor (1899–1957)
Clark GableAmerican actor (1901–1960)
Judy GarlandAmerican actress and singer (1922–1969)
Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model (1926–1962)- Vaslav NijinskyRussian dancer and choreographer (1889–1950)
Isadora DuncanAmerican dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
Josephine BakerAmerican and French entertainer (1906–1975)
Harry HoudiniAmerican escapologist and stuntman (1874–1926)
GiottoItalian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
Jan van EyckFlemish painter (died 1441)
Masaccio15th-century Italian Renaissance painter
Sandro BotticelliItalian Renaissance painter (1445–1510)
Albrecht DürerGerman artist and theorist (1471–1528)
TitianItalian painter (c. 1477/88/90–1576)
RaphaelItalian painter and architect (1483–1520)
Hans Holbein the YoungerGerman artist and printmaker (1497–1543)
Pieter Brueghel the ElderDutch and Flemish painter (c. 1525/30–1569)
El GrecoGreek painter of the Spanish Renaissance (1541–1614)
CaravaggioItalian painter (1571–1610)
Peter Paul RubensFlemish artist and diplomat (1577–1640)
Artemisia GentileschiItalian painter (born 1593)
Nicolas PoussinFrench Baroque painter (1594–1665)
Diego VelázquezSpanish painter (1599–1660)
Johannes VermeerDutch painter (1632–1675)
Jean-Antoine WatteauFrench painter (1684–1721)
William HogarthEnglish painter, engraver and satirist (1697–1764)
Francisco GoyaSpanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
Jacques-Louis DavidFrench painter (1748–1825)
Caspar David FriedrichGerman Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
J. M. W. TurnerEnglish painter (1775–1851)
John ConstableEnglish painter (1776–1837)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresFrench painter (1780–1867)
Eugène DelacroixFrench painter (1798–1863)
Gustave CourbetFrench realist painter (1819–1877)
Camille PissarroDanish-French painter (1830–1903)
Édouard ManetFrench painter (1832–1883)
James McNeill WhistlerAmerican painter (1834–1903)
Edgar DegasFrench Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
Paul CézanneFrench painter (1839–1906)
Claude MonetFrench painter (1840–1926)
Pierre-Auguste RenoirFrench painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
Henri RousseauFrench painter (1844–1910)
Ilya RepinRussian realist painter (1844–1930)
Paul GauguinFrench artist (1848–1903)
John Singer SargentAmerican painter (1856–1925)
Georges SeuratFrench painter (1859–1891)
Gustav KlimtAustrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)- EEdvard MunchNorwegian painter (1863–1944)
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecFrench painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
Wassily KandinskyRussian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
Henri MatisseFrench artist (1869–1954)
Piet MondrianDutch painter (1872–1944)
Kazimir MalevichRussian artist and painter (1879–1935)
Paul KleeSwiss-German painter (1879–1940)
Franz MarcGerman artist (1880–1916)
Edward HopperAmerican painter and printmaker (1882–1967)
Diego RiveraMexican muralist (1886–1957)
Max ErnstGerman artist (1891–1976)
René MagritteBelgian painter (1898–1967)
Frida KahloMexican painter (1907–1954)
Jackson PollockAmerican painter (1912–1956)
Winsor McCayAmerican cartoonist and animator (c.1866–1934)
Aubrey BeardsleyEnglish illustrator and author (1872–1898)
M. C. EscherDutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
PhidiasGreek sculptor, painter and architect (c.480–430 BC)
DonatelloItalian Renaissance sculptor (c. 1386–1466)
Gian Lorenzo BerniniItalian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
Auguste RodinFrench sculptor (1840–1917)
Constantin BrâncușiRomanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876–1957)
Marcel DuchampFrench painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
Alberto GiacomettiSwiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
Filippo BrunelleschiItalian Renaissance architect (1377–1446)
Leon Battista AlbertiItalian architect and author (1404-1472)
Mimar Sinan16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
Frank Lloyd WrightAmerican architect (1867–1959)
Le CorbusierSwiss-French architect (1887–1965)
Louis KahnEstonian-American architect (1901–1974)
Eadweard MuybridgeEnglish photographer (1830–1904)
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiRussian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
Edward WestonAmerican photographer (1886–1958)
Frederick Law OlmstedAmerican landscape architect (1822–1903)
Sesshū TōyōJapanese painter (c. 1420–1506)
ShitaoChinese painter (1642–1707)
Utagawa HiroshigeJapanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
Qu YuanChinese poet (c.340–278 BCE)
Tao YuanmingChinese poet (365–427)
AristophanesClassical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC)
HoraceRoman lyric poet (65–8 BC)
Wang WeiTang-dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
Du FuTang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)
Han YuAncient Chinese writer, essayist and poet (768–824)
Bai JuyiChinese poet of the Tang dynasty (772-846)
Ouyang XiuChinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)
Su ShiChinese writer and politician (1037–1101)
Amir KhusrauIndian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)
Kabir15th-16th century Indian poet and sant
Abu Nuwas8th-century classical Arabic poet
RudakiPersian poet (858–940/41)
FerdowsiPersian poet (940–1025)
Omar KhayyámPersian polymath and poet (1048–1131)
JamiPersian poet (1414–1492)
PetrarchItalian scholar and poet (1304–1374)
Geoffrey ChaucerEnglish writer (1343–1400)
EncyclopédistesContributors to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765