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Walt Disney
On December 5, 1901, there was heard the cry of a newborn child from the home of Elias Disney, a carpenter by trade, in Chicago. No one could have imagined that this crying newborn would be the one w...
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Charlie Chaplin
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth, London, England. Charles Chaplin Sr. and his wife Hannah Harriette Hill were Vaudeville performers. Charles was born into atmosph...
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Vincent van Gogh
The year was 1885, when he set about to paint his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters. All the years of hard work and continuous refinement of techniques had led him to this day, where he proved hims...
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Rembrandt
Roots
Contrary to popular belief, Rembrandt did not live a life of poverty or in squalor. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the Dutch Baroque artist, was born on July 15, 1606, in Leiden, ...
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Rabindranath Tagore
In the life of a poet or a novelist or any creative writer, external events are not important as the internal ones. The circumstances surrounding him and his response to them played an important role ...
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso
When he was thirteen years old he initiated into two mysteries – the mystery of power and the mystery of death. His seven years old sister Conchita was suffering of diphtheria. He saw his parents stru...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo was short, with a rugged face disfigured by his broken nose, silent, solitary, touchy and irritable. He lived frugally and austerely, and even when he became a rich man continued t...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo : The person
Leonardo has been described as a grouchy and self-centered painter, scholar, inventor, scientist, writer, and anatomist etc. His abilities and t...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach is the successor to the polyphonic art that he revitalized with his spirit. A culminating figure of the Baroque music and one of the final frontiers in the history of art,...
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Le Corbusier
"…..the building is complete but, within the confines of the spaces provided under the independent umbrella roof, change is possible in the exhibition and meeting room areas. This building completed a...
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany, and baptized on December 17. Interestingly enough, till his 40th year Beethoven suffered from what is famous as his ‘birth –...
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