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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco de Goya

Spain

30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 (82 years old)

Visionary Spanish master whose fearless art chronicled royal vanity (Charles IV), the brutal horrors of war (The Third of May 1808), and the terrifying dark phantoms of the human subconscious in his Black Paintings.

Bordeaux, France

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Germany

17 December 1770 (Baptism) – 26 March 1827 (~57 years old)

Colossus of Western music who triumphed over total deafness to propel music into the Romantic era with volcanic emotional power, heroism, and cosmic brotherhood in his 9 Symphonies, 32 Piano Sonatas, and late String Quartets.

Vienna, Austria

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

Germany

1786 – 1826 (39 years old)

German composer, conductor, and critic acclaimed as the father of German Romantic opera, immortalized by 'Der Freischütz', 'Euryanthe', and his brilliant clarinet concertos.

London, United Kingdom

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Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

France

1748 – 1825 (77 years old)

Preeminent painter of the Neoclassical era and official artist of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Brussels, Belgium

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Johann Heinrich Füssli

Johann Heinrich Füssli

Switzerland

1741 – 1825 (84 years old)

Swiss-born British Romantic painter and professor whose chilling masterpiece 'The Nightmare' (1781) introduced gothic terror, eroticism, and the irrational subconscious into Western art.

London, United Kingdom

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Théodore Géricault

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault

France

1791 – 1824 (32 years old)

Pioneering French Romantic painter whose dramatic tour de force The Raft of the Medusa launched the Romantic movement.

Paris, France

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Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova

Italy

1757 – 1822 (64 years old)

Foremost Neoclassical sculptor in Europe whose breathtaking marble masterpieces—including 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss'—brought Greek marble elegance back to the modern world.

Possagno, Italy

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Torii Kiyonaga

鳥居 清長

Japan

c. 1752 – 1815 (63 years old)

Master Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker of the late eighteenth century, celebrated for depicting statuesque, tall, elegant beauties (bijin-ga) integrated naturally into outdoor urban landscapes.

Ryogoku (Tokyo), Japan

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Ismail Daoud al-Banna

إسماعيل داود البنّاء

Tunisia

c. 1750 AD – 1815 AD (~65 years old)

Master architect and chief engineer under Hammuda Pasha Bey who designed the grand ceremonial halls, carved plasterwork, and Italian marble courtyards of the Bardo Palace (now the Bardo National Museum).

Tunis, Tunisia

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Claude Michel

Claude Michel (Clodion)

France

1738 – 1814 (75 years old)

French master sculptor whose light, sensuous terracotta statuettes of bacchantes, satyrs, and nymphs captured the playful joy and supreme delicacy of late Rococo art.

Paris, France

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Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn

Austria

31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809 (77 years old)

Foundational giant of the Viennese Classical period whose 106 symphonies and 68 string quartets established the classical sonata form, mentoring Mozart and Beethoven and creating the sublime oratorio The Creation.

Vienna, Austria

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Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川 歌麿

Japan

c. 1753 – 1806 (53 years old)

Supreme master of ukiyo-e woodblock printing renowned worldwide for his intimate 'okubi-e' (large-head close-up portraits) of women, capturing subtle feminine psychological states.

Setagaya (Tokyo), Japan

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

France

1732 – 1806 (74 years old)

French Rococo master painter whose exuberant, fluid brushwork and playful romantic masterworks like 'The Swing' (L'Escarpolette) captured the joie de vivre of the Ancien Régime.

Paris, France

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Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini

Republic of Lucca

1743 – 1805 (62 years old)

Italian Classical composer and cello virtuoso celebrated for his courtly galant chamber music, pioneering string quintets, and the immortal 'Minuet' from String Quintet Op. 11, No. 5.

Madrid, Spain

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giandomenico Tiepolo

Italy

1727 – 1804 (76 years old)

Venetian master painter and son of Giambattista Tiepolo whose witty, theatrical frescoes of Pulcinella and Carnival scenes captured the whimsical collapse of the Venetian Republic.

Venice, Italy

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George Romney

George Romney

Great Britain

1734 – 1802 (67 years old)

Prominent English society portrait painter of the Georgian era celebrated for his fashionable society sitters and dozens of luminous, idealized portraits of Emma Hamilton.

Kendal, United Kingdom

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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi

Francesco Guardi

Italy

1712 – 1793 (80 years old)

Last great master of the Venetian veduta whose shimmering, painterly brushwork (pittura di tocco) and poetic capriccios anticipated 19th-century Impressionism.

Venice, Italy

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds

Great Britain

1723 – 1792 (68 years old)

First President of the Royal Academy of Arts whose 'Discourses on Art' championed the 'Grand Style' and who elevated British portraiture to heroic neoclassical dignity.

London, United Kingdom

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