Artists & Composers (2)
35 entries in the Historical Figures compendium.
Naoko TakeuchiJapanese manga artist, creator of Sailor Moon.John TennielEnglish illustrator and political cartoonist, knighted in 1893.Akira ToriyamaJapanese manga artist and creator of Dragon Ball.Alessandro AlgardiItalian high-Baroque sculptor and rival of Bernini in Rome.Antonio CanovaItalian Neoclassical sculptor, famed for marble works.DonatelloItalian sculptor who revived classical forms in the Renaissance.Jean-Antoine HoudonFrench neoclassical sculptor of Enlightenment portrait busts.MichelangeloItalian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.Claus SluterDutch sculptor, pioneer of northern realism in Burgundy.Bertel ThorvaldsenDanish-Icelandic sculptor of the Neoclassical period, famed across Europe.Carl AndreAmerican minimalist sculptor known for grid-based floor works.Jean ArpGerman-French Dadaist and abstract sculptor, painter, and poet.Frédéric Auguste BartholdiFrench sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.Antoine BourdelleFrench sculptor and teacher, student of Rodin, mentor to Matisse.Camille ClaudelFrench sculptor known for bronze and marble figurative works.Marcel DuchampFrench American artist who helped establish post-industrial art perspective.Barbara HepworthEnglish modernist sculptor and leading St Ives artist.Aristide MaillolFrench Catalan sculptor known for serene classical female figures.Gustav VigelandNorwegian sculptor of the Vigeland installation and Nobel Peace Prize medal.Isidore of MiletusByzantine architect, mathematician, and compiler of Archimedes.SugerAbbot, regent, and architect of the first Gothic building.Robert AdamBritish neoclassical architect who developed the Adam Style.Francesco BorrominiItalian Baroque architect known for inventive, idiosyncratic designs.Filippo BrunelleschiFounding father of Renaissance architecture and pioneer of linear perspective.Jules Hardouin-MansartFrench Baroque architect who glorified Louis XIV's reign.Inigo JonesFirst significant English architect of the early modern era.Benjamin Henry LatrobeBritish-American neoclassical architect who shaped early U.S. public buildings.Christopher WrenEnglish architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist; rebuilt London's churches afteDaniel BurnhamAmerican architect and urban designer of the Beaux-Arts movement.Norman FosterEnglish architect and pioneer of high-tech architecture.Frank GehryCanadian-American architect known for sculptural, titanium-clad buildings.Walter GropiusGerman-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School.Rem KoolhaasDutch architect and theorist known for deconstructivism and urban analysis.Oscar NiemeyerBrazilian architect known for Brasília's civic buildings and curved concrete forms.Renzo PianoItalian architect of iconic museums and skyscrapers.
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