Famous artists

Famous artists

A selection of the world best artists.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo

Architects

Some historically important architects are: Gustave Eiffel, Le Corbusier, Josep M. Jujol, Adolf Loos, Johannes Duiker, K. F. Schinkel, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and K. Melnikov.

Gustave Eiffel

Le Corbusier

Cesar Pelli

Authors

Mark Twain

Cervantes

Charles Dickens

Goethe

William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Leo Tolstoy

Composers

Tomaso Albinoni J. S. Bach L. van Beethoven Claude Debussy	Antonin Dvorak Edvard Grieg Franz Liszt	Gustav Mahler Jules Massenet Felix Mendelssohn W. Amadeus Mozart	Niccolo Paganini Sergei Prokofiev Maurice Ravel Joaquín Rodrigo	Gioacchino Rossini Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johann Strauss	P. I. Tchaikovsky Giuseppe Verdi Antonio Vivaldi Richard Wagner
Samuel Barber Leonard Bernstein	Aaron Copland	James Horner Charles Ives	George Gershwin Henry Mancini	Ennio Morricone Cole Porter	John Williams Christopher Young

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is MUSIC. Aldous Huxley

Dancers

Marie Taglioni

Fanny Elssler

Anna Pavlova

Vaslav Nijinsky

Rudolf Nureyev

Painters

Raphael Diego Velazquez Marc Chagall Wassily Kandinsky William Turner

Salvador Dali Claude Lorrain Leonardo da Vinci Jacques Louis David Gustav Klimt Paul Klee

Francisco de Goya Francisco de Zurbarán Paul Cezanne Vincent van Gogh Claude Monet

George-Pierre Seurat Paul Gauguin Pablo Picasso Pierre-Auguste Renoir Henri Matisse Ivan Aivazovsky

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy, 1887.

Sculptors

Michaelangelo

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Auguste Rodin

The Angel of Death and the Sculptor by Daniel Chester French

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. Alexander Calder

See also

Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes.

• Famous American artists
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Joan Miró, Abstract 1935.

External links

Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix by Antonio Canova.

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Diego Rivera.

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean Jacques Rousseau