Giacomo Manzù
Italian sculptor & professor born in 1908.
Henri Matisse
French artist who helped to define the revolutionary visual art developments of the early 20th century.
Cosima Wagner
Wife & muse of German composer Richard Wagner, born in 1837. Co-founder & director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Kurt Jooss
German ballet dancer & choreographer, born in 1901, & regarded as the founder of Tanztheater.
Berthe Morisot
French painter born in 1841. Member of the circle of painters in Paris known as the Impressionists.
César Baldaccini
French sculptor, born in 1921, at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement.
Marie Dorval
French Romantic actor born in 1798. Known for alleged lesbian relationship with the writer George Sand.
Marlene Dietrich
German American actor & singer who starred in classic Hollywood films incl. Morocco, Shanghai Express, & Desire.
Mary Tyler Moore
American actor, producer, & social advocate known for her TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Jean Delville
Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, & Theosophist born in 1867.