The arts: Quick Facts


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William Morris
British artist and author
Detail from the 1375 Catalan Atlas by Abraham Cresques showing Mansa Musa, king of Mali, seated on a throne holding a gold coin, with a Tuareg on camelback approaching.
Mūsā I of Mali
emperor of Mali
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Juliana Rieser Force
American art administrator
Rubinstein, Helena
Helena Rubinstein
cosmetician and business executive
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Charles Locke Eastlake
British author
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Okakura Kakuzō
Japanese art critic
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Samuel Putnam Avery
American artist and philanthropist
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Winthrop Rockefeller
American politician and philanthropist
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Paulus Jovius
Italian historian
André Malraux
André Malraux
French novelist, art historian, and statesman
Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
Alain Locke
Alain Locke
American writer
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Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
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Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Indian art historian
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Brendan Gill
American writer
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Susanne K. Langer
American philosopher and educator
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Ernst H. Gombrich
British art historian