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Country
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Discipline
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Artist
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Italy (1265)
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Literature / Poetry
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Dante Alighieri (1265)
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Italy
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Literature / Poetry
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313)
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Italy
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Sculpture / Architecture
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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377)
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Italy
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Sculpture
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Donatello (1386)
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Belgium
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Painting
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Jan van Eyck (1390)
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Italy
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Painting / Sculpture / Architecture / Literature
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
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Germany
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Painting
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Albrecht Dürer (1471)
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Italy
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Painting / Sculpture / Architecture / Poetry
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475)
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Italy
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Painting / Architecture
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Raphael (1483)
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Germany
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Painting
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Hans Holbein the younger (1497)
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Italy
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Architecture
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Andrea Palladio (1508)
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Italy
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Painting / Architecture
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Giorgio Vasari (1511)
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Spain
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Literature / Theater
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547)
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Greece
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Painting
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El Greco (1548)
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United Kingdom
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Literature / Poetry / Theater
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William Shakespeare (1564)
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United Kingdom
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Architecture
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Inigo Jones (1573)
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Italy
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Painting
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Caravaggio (1573)
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Belgium
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Painting
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Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
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Italy
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Sculpture
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598)
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Netherlands
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Painting
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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)
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France
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Literature / Theater
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Molière (1622)
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United Kingdom
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Architecture
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Christopher Wren (1632)
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Netherlands
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Painting
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Johannes Vermeer (1632)
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Ireland
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Literature / Poetry
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Jonathan Swift (1667)
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Italy
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Composing
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
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Germany
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Composing
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)
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Austria
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Composing
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Joseph Haydn (1732)
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Spain
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Painting
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Francisco Goya (1746)
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France
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Painting
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Jacques-Louis David (1748)
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Germany
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Literature / Poetry / Theater
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
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Austria
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Composing
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
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Germany
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Composing
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Ludwig von Beethoven (1770)
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Germany
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Painting
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
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United Kingdom
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Painting
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William Turner (1775)
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United Kingdom
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Painting
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John Constable (1776)
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United Kingdom
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Literature
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Mary Shelley (1797)
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Germany
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Literature / Poetry
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Heinrich Heine(1797)
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France
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Painting
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Eugène Delacroix (1798)
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Russia
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Literature / Poetry / Theater
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Alexander Pushkin (1799)
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France
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Literature / Poetry
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Victor Hugo (1802)
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France
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Literature
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Alexandre Dumas (1802)
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Denmark
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Literature / Poetry
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805)
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Poland
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Composing
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Frédéric Chopin (1810)
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United Kingdom
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Literature
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Charles Dickens (1812)
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Russia
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Literature
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
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Netherlands
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Architecture
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Pierre Cuypers (1827)
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France
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Literature
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Jules Verne (1828)
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Russia
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Literature
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Leo Tolstoy (1828)
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United Kingdom
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Literature / Poetry
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Lewis Caroll (1832)
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France
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Painting / Sculpture
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Edgar Degas (1834)
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France
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Painting
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Paul Cezanne (1839)
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Russia
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Composing
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
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France
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Painting
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Claude Monet (1840)
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Norway
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Composing
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Edvard Grieg (1843)
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Ireland
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Literature
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Bram Stoker (1847)
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France
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Painting
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Paul Gaugin (1848)
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Spain
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Architecture
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Antoni Gaudí (1852)
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Netherlands
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Painting
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Vincent van Gogh (1853)
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Ireland
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Literature / Poetry
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Oscar Wilde (1854)
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Belgium
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Painting / Literature / Composing
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James Ensor (1860)
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Austria
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Painting
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Gustav Klimt (1862)
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Norway
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Painting
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Edvard Munch (1863)
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Russia
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Painting
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866)
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France
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Painting / Sculpture
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Henri Matisse (1869)
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Netherlands
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Painting
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Piet Mondriaan (1872)
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Germany
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Literature
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Thomas Mann (1875)
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Ukraine
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Painting
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Kazimir Malevich (1879)
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France
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Sculpture
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Auguste Rodin (1840)
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Finland
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Composing
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Jean Sibelius (1865)
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Switzerland
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Painting
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Paul Klee (1879)
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Romania
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Composing
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Béla Bartók (1881)
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Spain
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Painting / Sculpture
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Pablo Picasso (1881)
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Ireland
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Literature
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James Joyce (1882)
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Czech
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Literature
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Franz Kafka (1883)
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France
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Fashion
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Coco Chanel (1883)
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Belarus
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Painting
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Marc Chagall (1887)
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France
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Painting / Sculpture
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Marcel Duchamp (1887)
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Switzerland
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Architecture
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Le Corbusier (1887)
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Germany
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Painting
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Otto Dix (1891)
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Spain
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Painting / Sculpture
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Joan Miró (1893)
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Germany
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Literature / Poetry / Theater
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Bertolt Brecht (1898)
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Belgium
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Painting
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René Magritte (1898)
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France
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Literature
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)
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United Kingdom
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Literature
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George Orwell (1903)
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Netherlands
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Painting
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Willem de Kooning (1904)
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Spain
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Painting
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Salvador Dalí (1904)
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Germany
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Architecture / City planning
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Albert Speer (1905)
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Ireland
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Literature / Poetry / Theater
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Samuel Beckett (1906)
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Sweden
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Literature
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Astrid Lindgren (1907)
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Netherlands
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Painting / Sculpture
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Karel Appel (1921)
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Belgium
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Painting
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Corneille (1922)
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Poland
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Literature
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Günter Grass (1927)
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France
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Painting / Sculpture
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Niki de Saint Phalle (1930)
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Italy
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Literature
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Umberto Eco (1932)
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Germany
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Fashion
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Karl Lagerfeld (1933)
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Bulgaria
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Painting / Sculpture / Architecture / Installation
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Christo (1935)
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Poland
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Architecture / City planning
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Daniel Libeskind (1946)
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Serbia
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Performance
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Marina Abramovic (1946)
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United Kingdom
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Sculpture / Design
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Damien Hirst (1965)
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United Kingdom
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Painting / Design / Graffiti
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Banksy (1974)
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PS. As a Finn I would like to see Jean Sibelius here, but I respect your choices.
I had never heard of Jean Sibelius before, but I just listened to a few of his compositions (one of which was Finlandia) and it sounds great!
I'll probably change him out for one of the more unknown French guys, because France is a little overrepresented and I did not include a single Finn...
PS. Finland is by far the 'coolest' country of Europe :)
I agree that some countries are so well represented here that it is good to have also other countries, if possible. But this is a great quiz already.
PS. Finland is cool. THE Winter is again coming. :)
My personal choice was to focus on the chronology, but probably most of you just guess answers (what's totally fine).
Is it too hard in that case?
Sorry for the Russian names;
I'm from the Netherlands and here all of those are written differently!
I'll fix Shelley's name and will allow Mondrian.
As for Wagner or Verdi: I was trying not to overdo the composers and Italy and Germany already got many names in the list.