an Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet.

a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.

an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.

an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.

a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines

a German-speaking Bohemian novelist, short-story writer and insurance officer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature