Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

male, deceased (1519)
inventor, artist, painter, genius, Renaissance, mona lisa…Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani ca.1490 at, of Natural History, New York City, The greatest genius of all times, Hyde Collection Art Museum,
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect,...
Philippe de Montebello

Philippe de Montebello

male, 73 years old
Museum Director, French, metropolitanmuseumofart, Curator, American, Légion d'honneur recipient…director of the Metropolitan Museum
Philippe de Montebello (born 1936) is a French-born museum curator. As of 2007 he is the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,...
Thomas Hoving

Thomas Hoving

male, 78 years old
20/20, Museum Director, tiffany & company, American Broadcasting Company, John V. Lindsay, James J. Rorimer…art forgeries, metropolitanmuseumofart, Art forgery, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Thomas P.F. Hoving (born January 15, 1931), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Arthur M. Sackler

Arthur M. Sackler

male, deceased (1987)
Harvard University, Princeton University, New York University, Tufts University, metropolitanmuseumofart, tel aviv university…sackler school of medicine, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Science
Arthur M. Sackler was an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with...
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…In Search of Lost Time, cause of death disputed, Philosopher of language, The Task of the Translator, metropolitanmuseumofart
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...

Euphronios

male
Sarpedon, Red-figure pottery, foreshortening, Greco-Persian Wars, krater, Archaic period in Greece…metropolitanmuseumofart
Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. Very little...
J. P. Morgan

J. P. Morgan

male, deceased (1913)
banker, United States Steel Corporation, Jack Pierpont Morgan, metropolitanmuseumofart, Rome, Italy, corporate finance…Art collector, museum of modern art
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate...

Howard Gilman

male, deceased (1998)
Dartmouth College, World War II, Dartmouth College alumni, metropolitanmuseumofart, brooklyn academy of music, Business Person
Howard Gilman (15 February, 1924 - 3 January 1998) was the founder of the Gilman Paper Company. He was born and raised on Manhattan's Upper East...
William Turner

William Turner

male, deceased (1862)
painter, metropolitanmuseumofart, tate gallery, artist, ashmolean museum, watercolour…Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Oxfordshire County Museum, Turner of Oxford
William Turner was an English painter who specialised watercolour landscape views, strongly rooted in Oxfordshire and the city of Oxford. He was a...
Josef Albers

Josef Albers

male, deceased (1976)
Interaction of Color, graham foundation, westphalia, Dessau, Black Mountain College, Essen, Germany…museum of modern art, metropolitanmuseumofart
Josef Albers was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the...