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javier rey
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hugh bonneville
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giuseppe zeno
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​gong li 巩俐
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daniel craig
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dan stevens
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colin firth
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​sophie marceau
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Deborah kerr
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christopher plummer
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Arthur Rubinstein
​28 January 1887 - 20 December 1982

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Antonio Cupo
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anthony andrews
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alessandro tersigni

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richard burton
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sami frey
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shi hui 石慧
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xia meng 夏梦
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chow yun-fat
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charles berling
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burt lancaster
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ken watanabe ​
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rupert penry-jones
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Nina Ananiashvili

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brigitte lin (lin qingxiang林青霞)
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asier etxeandia
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Hattie Carnegie
​(15 March 1889 Vienna, Austria -  22 February 1956 New York, USA)

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Geoffrey Beene
(30 August 1924-28 September 2004)

In 1945 Geoffrey gave up Medicine, moved to New York and began to study at the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York, then the L'Academie Julian in Paris, France. In 1962 he formed his own company and unveiled his first collection. Geoffrey Beene designed the Wedding dress for Lynda Bird Johnson daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson. He started his own label in 1963 and started a menswear line in 1969. He was called by his colleages as "America's Most Highly Praised Designers". He won eight Coty Awards and every award possible from the field of Fashion.

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Viktor Frankl
​Vienna, Austria, 26 March 1905 - 2 September 1997, ​Vienna, Austria

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​Steve Jobs
​24 February 1955 - 5 October 2011

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Sir Kenneth Clark
​13 July 1903 - 21 May 1983
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Joseph Campbell
​24 March 1904 - 30 October 1987

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John Ruskin
London Englang, 8 Febrary 1819 - 20 January 1900

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Jiang Xun 蒋勋
​Xi'an China, 8 January 1947

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Jay Shetty
7 September 1987

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Carl Gustav Jung
​26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961

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Bernard Berenson
​26 July 1865 -  6 October 1959​

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Yasunari Kawabata 川端康成
​11 June 1899-16 April 1972

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Thomas Mann
​6 June 1875 - 12 August1955

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Stefan Zweig
​1881 - 1942

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Ninon de lenclos
10 November 1620 - 17 October 1705
​She is called "une femme complete" (a complete woman), she has beauty and brain, she is free minded and full of vitality, she loves and she is loved, she writes and she writes beautifully. As a prolific letter, she has written many letters to Marquis de Sevigne, which was edited and translated into the book called 
Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, which alone is enough to establish her as an aclaimed writer.

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Luigi Barzini Jr.
​21 December 1908 - 30 March 1984

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Laurie Lee
​26 June 1914 - 13 May 1997

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Irwin Shaw
​27 February 1913 - 16 May 1984

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Hermann Hesse
2 July 1877 - 9 August 1962


​‘If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet,                                        storytelling would lose all purpose.’ Forewords to Demian by Hermann Hesse.

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George Bernard Shaw

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Giorgio Bassani
​4 March 1916 - 13 April 2000
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Evelyn Waugh
​28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966

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Boris Pasternak
​10 February 1890 - 30 May 1960

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​​Abel Korzeniowski
Krakow Poland 18 July 1972


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​​Alexandre Cabanel
(28 September 1823 - 23 January 23 1889)

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Catharine Lorrillard Wolfe by Alexandre Cabanel

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​Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart
​Salzburg 27 January 1756 - Vienna 5 December 1791


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​Anne-louis Girodet
(Montargis France 29 January1767-9 December 1824 Paris France)

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the sleep of endemion 1792

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​Anne Vallayer-Coster
21 December 1744-28 February 1818

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Portrait d'une violoniste by Anne Vallayer-Coster

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Antonio Vivaldi
​Venice, 4 March 1678 - Vienna 28 July 1741


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​Artemesia Gentileschi
8 July 1593 - c. 1656

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cleopatra by artemesia gentileschi

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Camille Saint-Saens
​9 October 1835 - 21 December 1921



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Chen Yifei 陈逸飞
(12 April 1946 - 10 April 2005)

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Dante Gabriel Rosetti
(12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882)

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blue dress (model: jan morris) by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

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Sir Edward Burne-Jones
(28 August 1833 - 17 June 1898)

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Sidonia von Bork 1860 by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

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Sir Edward Elgar
​2 June 1857 - 23 February 1934


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Elisabeth Vigee le Brun
(Paris France 16 April 1755 - Paris France 30 March 1842)

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auto portrait avec julie, sa fille c 1789 By Elisabeth Vigee le Brun


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Erwin blumenfeld
​26 January 1897 Berlin Germany - 4 July 1969


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Eugen Doga
​1 March 1937


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Felix Mendelssohn
​Hambourg 3 February 1809 - Leipzig 4 November 1847


Oil painting Miranda by Francis bernard Dicksee 1878
Miranda by Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee 1878

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Franz Liszt
​Raiding, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria Empire, 22 October 1811 - Bayreuth Germany, 31 July 1886


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Frederic Chopin (fryderyk chopin)
​Zelazowa Wola Poland, 1 March 1810 - Paris, 17 October 1849


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Sir Frederic Leighton
(Scarborough England 3 December 1830 - London England 25 January 1896)

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Antigone 1882 by Sir Frederick Leighton

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Fritz Kreisler
​Vienna 2 February 1875 - 29 January 1962


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george hoyningen-huene

4 September 1900 St. Petersbourg, Russia - 12 September 1968, Los Angles, US
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George Romney
​(Dalton-in-Furness England 26 December 1734-Kandel England 15 November 1802)

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Mrs. Alexander Blair 1787 - 1789 by George Romney

La Fumeuse, 1910 by Georges de Feure
La Fumeuse, 1910

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Giacomo Puccini
​22 December 1858 - 24 November 1924


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Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Giovanni Bellini
(Venice Italy 1430 - Venice Italy 29 November 1516)

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Le Doge Leonardo Loredan by Giovanni Bellini

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Giovanni Boldini
(Ferrara Italy 31 December 1842 -  Paris France 11 July 1931)

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Mademoiselle de Nemidoff 1908 by Giovanni Boldini

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Giuseppe Tartini
Piran, Repbulic of Venice, 8 April 1692 - 26 February 1770


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​Giuseppe Verdi
​10 October 1813 - 27 January 1901


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Guido Reni
(Bolognia Italy 4 November 1575 -  Bolognia Italy 18 August 1642)

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four seasons, 1620 by Guido Reni

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henry clarke
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​Henry Mancini
​16 April 1924 - 14 June 1994


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horst p. horst
14 august 1906, Weißenfels Germany - 19 november 1999  Palm Beach Gardens, Florida US



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Jacques-Emile Blanche
(31 January 1861-30 September 1942)

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Mademoiselle Georgette Camille 1925 by Jacques-Emile Blanche

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​James Last
​17 April 1929 - 9 June 2015


Été by James Tissot modelled by Kathleen Newton, vers 1877
Été by James Tissot modelled by Kathleen Newton, vers 1877

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Jacques-Louis David
(Paris France 30 August 1748 -  Brussels Belgium 29 December 1825)

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Madame Récamier by jacques-louis david

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portrait of madame de senonnes by jean auguste dominique ingles

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Jean-Leon Gerome
​(Vesoul France 11 May 1824 -  Paris France 10 January 1904)

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Phryne revealed before the Areopagus 1861

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John Barry
​3 November 1933-30 January 2011


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Sir John Everett Millais
​(Southampton England 8 June 1829 -  London England 13 August 1896)

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portia 1886, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection

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Madame Gautreau, 1883 by John Singer Sargent

Unconscious Rivals (1893), oil on panel, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Unconscious Rivals (1893), oil on panel, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

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Sleeping Beauty by John Williams Waterhouse

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​Joseph Decamp
​(Cincinnati, USA, 5 November 1858 - 11 February 1923)

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the violinist

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​Joseph Karl Stieler
(Mainz, Germany, 1 November 1781 - 9 April 1858)

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Amalie von Schintling (1831) Nymphenburg Palace, Munich

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​Sir Joshua Reynolds
​(16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792)

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jane fleming, countess of harrington

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Jules Massenet
​12 May 1842 - 13 August 1912


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Unconscious Rivals (1893), oil on panel, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

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Leonard Bernstein
​25 August 1918-14 October 1990


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​ Louise dahl-wolfe
 
(19 November 1895, San Francisco US - 11 December 1989, Allendale, New Jersey US)


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Maurice Jarre
​Lyon France 13 September 1924 - Malibu USA 29 March 2009


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​Nicolas Lancret
​(22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743)

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A dance in the summer house

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Nino Rota
​3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979


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Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky
​25 April 1840 - 25 October 1893

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Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky
​25 April 1840 - 25 October 1893


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
​(Limoges France, 25 February 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer France, 3 December 1919)

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Madame Henriot by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Raphael - Raffaello Sanzio
​(Urbino Italy 1483 - Rome Italy 6 April 1520)

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the madonna della sedia, Oil on wood 71 cm Florence, Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti 1514

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Remo Giazotto
​Rome 4 September 1910 - Pisa 26 August 1998


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Thomas Francis Dicksee: 1819 - 1895

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Amy Robsart by Thomas Francis Dicksee

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Thomas Gainsborough
​(Sudbury England 14 May 1727 - London  England 2 August 1788)

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Duchess of Devonshire 1787 by thomas gainsborough

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Thomas Lawrence
​(Sudbury England 13 April 1769 - London  England 7 January1830)

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John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield by Sir Thomas Lawrence

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Titian Vecelli -Tiziano vecellio
(Venice Italy 1490 - Venice Italy 27 August 1576)




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