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Art

Cave paintings, sculpture, Renaissance, modernism — the history of human expression.

Figures of Art70

Rumi

1207–1273 CE

Sufi Mystic · Poet · Founder of the Mevlevi Order

48s

Filippo Brunelleschi

1377–1446 CE

Architect · Engineer · The Architect of the Renaissance

48s

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756–1791 CE

Composer · Classical Era

48s

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827 CE

Composer · The Bridge to Romanticism

48s

Maya Angelou

1928–2014 CE

Poet · Memoirist · Civil Rights Activist

Voltaire

1694–1778 CE

Philosopher · Satirist · Essayist of the Enlightenment

Catherine the Great

1729–1796 CE

Empress of All the Russias · Enlightened Despot

48s

Hatshepsut

c. 1507–1458 BCE

Pharaoh of Egypt · Builder of Deir el-Bahri

48s

Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910 CE

Novelist · Moral Philosopher · Christian Anarchist

48s

Vincent van Gogh

1853–1890 CE

Post-Impressionist Painter

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Pablo Picasso

1881–1973 CE

Painter · Sculptor · Co-Founder of Cubism

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Frida Kahlo

1907–1954 CE

Mexican Painter · Surrealist · Communist

48s

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