Théophile Gautier

male, deceased (1872)
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, G...
Bill Brown

Bill Brown

male
Bill Brown is a professor of English at the University of Chicago. He occupies the named chair previously held by Wayne Booth and is currently...
Elie Nadelman

Elie Nadelman

male, deceased (1946)
Elie Nadelman (February 20, 1882, Warsaw - December 28, 1946) was a Poland-born US sculptor. He spent 10 years in the Paris art scene at the...
Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

male, deceased (1995)
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. The term is often misunderstood as referring to s...
John Quinn

John Quinn

male, deceased (1924)
John Quinn (1870-1924) was an Irish-American corporate lawyer in New York, who for a time was an important patron of major figures of...
John Esposito

John Esposito

male, 56 years old
John Esposito is an American jazz pianist of advanced bebop tendencies. Known as a composer for his own groups and a versatile sideman capable of...
Paul Morand

Paul Morand

male, deceased (1976)
Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (there wa...
Paolo Portoghesi

Paolo Portoghesi

male
Paolo Portoghesi (born 2 November 1931, Rome) is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La...

Mário de Andrade

male, deceased (1945)
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of B...
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg

male, deceased (1969)
Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 - 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of auteur...