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Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
Arts & Music
35
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Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

ะ’ะฐัะธะปะธะน ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะกัƒั€ะธะบะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1848 โ€“ 1916 (68 years old)

Premier Russian historical painter whose monumental crowd canvasesโ€”such as 'Morning of the Streltsy Execution' and 'Boyarynya Morozova'โ€”captured epic historical tragedies.

Moscow, Russia
Arts & Music
0
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Pedro Lira

Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile
1845-05-17 โ€“ 1912-04-20 (66 years old)

Master painter and cultural promoter recognized as one of the four great masters of Chilean painting, who created the iconic 'Founding of Santiago' (1888) and established the National Museum of Fine Arts.

Santiago, Chile
Ya'qub Sanu
Arts & Music
18
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Ya'qub Sanu

ูŠุนู‚ูˆุจ ุตู†ูˆุน (ุฃุจูˆ ู†ุถุงุฑุฉ)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1839 โ€“ 1912 (73 years old)

Visionary Jewish-Egyptian playwright and journalist hailed as the 'Moliรจre of Egypt', who created the first modern Egyptian national theater troupe and published the satirical cartoon journal Abu Naddara.

Paris, France
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
Arts & Music
38
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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov

ะ’ะฐะปะตะฝั‚ะธะฝ ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะกะตั€ะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1865 โ€“ 1911 (46 years old)

Premier Russian portraitist and painter whose luminous 'Girl with Peaches' (1887) heralded Russian Impressionism and whose aristocratic portraits captured the twilight of the Romanov Empire.

Moscow, Russia
Hishida Shunso
Arts & Music
35
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Hishida Shunso

่ฑ็”ฐ ๆ˜ฅ่‰
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1874 โ€“ 1911 (36 years old)

Meiji-era Japanese painter who co-founded modern Nihonga and pioneered the 'morotai' (vague/blind) technique, eliminating sharp outlines to capture atmosphere and light, painted the masterpiece Black Cat.

Tokyo, Japan
Gustav Mahler
Arts & Music
43
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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
7 July 1860 โ€“ 18 May 1911 (50 years old)

Austro-Bohemian visionary composer and legendary conductor who declared 'a symphony must be like the world: it must embrace everything', pioneering 20th-century modernism with his nine epic symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde.

Vienna, Austria
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi
Arts & Music
31
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi

ะั€ั…ะธะฟ ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะšัƒะธะฝะดะถะธ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Russia
1841 โ€“ 1910 (69 years old)

Pontic Greek-Russian landscape painter whose breathtaking optical effects of glowing moonlight in 'Moonlit Night on the Dnieper' caused spectators to weep in darkened exhibition rooms.

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Mily Balakirev
Arts & Music
36
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Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1837 โ€“ 1910 (73 years old)

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who formed and led 'The Five' (Mighty Handful), inspiring Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, and composing the virtuosic 'Islamey'.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel
Arts & Music
36
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel

ะœะธั…ะฐะธะป ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะ’ั€ัƒะฑะตะปัŒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1856 โ€“ 1910 (54 years old)

Genius of Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau whose fractured, crystalline brushwork and haunting series of 'The Demon' anticipated Cubism and modernism.

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Arts & Music
1,329
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 47

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

ะะธะบะพะปะฐะน ะะฝะดั€ะตะตะฒะธั‡ ะ ะธะผัะบะธะน-ะšะพั€ัะฐะบะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1844 โ€“ 1908 (64 years old)

Russian master of orchestral color and folklore, renowned for Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, and Flight of the Bumblebee.

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Paul Cรฉzanne
Arts & Music
43
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Paul Cรฉzanne

Paul Cรฉzanne
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
19 January 1839 โ€“ 22 October 1906 (67 years old)

The solitary genius of Aix-en-Provence proclaimed by both Picasso and Matisse as 'the father of us all', who deconstructed visual reality into underlying cylinders, spheres, and cones in his Mont Sainte-Victoire series, birthing Cubism.

Aix-en-Provence, France
Raja Ravi Varma
Arts & Music
34
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Raja Ravi Varma

เดฐเดพเดœเดพ เดฐเดตเดฟเดตเตผเดฎเตเดฎ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1848 โ€“ 1906 (58 years old)

Pioneering Indian painter who fused European academic oil technique with Hindu iconography, establishing the visual archetypes of Hindu gods and goddesses through accessible oleograph prints.

Kilimanoor (Kerala), India
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