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

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

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

External links

Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix by Antonio Canova.

Diego Rivera.

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

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 JoaquÃn 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