an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.

best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime

a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics

a French Neoclassical painter. He was influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style

an Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.