Famous artists

A selection of the world best artists.

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

## Contents

* 1 Architects
* 2 Authors
* 3 Composers
* 4 Dancers
* 5 Painters
* 6 Sculptors
* 7 See also
* 8 External links

## Architects[edit]

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

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## Authors[edit]

Mark Twain |
Cervantes |
Charles Dickens |
Goethe |
William Shakespeare |
Victor Hugo |
Leo Tolstoy

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## Composers[edit]

* 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

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* 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[edit]

Marie Taglioni |
Fanny Elssler |
Anna Pavlova |
Vaslav Nijinsky |
Rudolf Nureyev

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## Painters[edit]

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

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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[edit]

Michaelangelo |
Gianlorenzo Bernini |
Auguste Rodin

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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[edit]

Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes.

* Famous American artists
* Oriental art
* Painting Galleries
* World famous paintings
* Gallery of Self-Portrait Paintings
* Famous Architects
* Sculpture
* Music
* Dance

Joan Miró, Abstract 1935.

## External links[edit]

Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix by Antonio Canova.

* Famous art paintings of famous painters
* Famous Museums in the World
* Famous Artworks exhibition
* Famous architects
* Top 10 most Famous Sculptures and Statues
* Famous Authors and Poets
* Greatest Classical Composers
* Famous Artists - Biographies & Paintings

Diego Rivera.

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