Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect and engineer who lived in the first century BC. He is known for one surviving work, De architectura , u…
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and scholar who helped to invent photography. In the 1830s he found ways to …
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) was a French composer, pianist, and organist, and one of the most gifted child prodigies of his century. He wrote ope…
Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist, illustrator, and designer, best known today for his colourful children's picture books. He also d…
Kenyon Cox (1856–1919) was an American painter, muralist, teacher, and critic. He studied in Paris, taught for many years at the Art Students League …
Charles Ives (1874–1954) was an American composer who wrote some of the most original music of the twentieth century while building a successful care…
William Hogarth (1697–1764) was an English painter and engraver, best known for the satirical picture series A Harlot's Progress , A Rake's P…
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most influential art critic of Victorian England. He was also a skilled draughtsman and watercolourist, and he drew b…
William Morris (1834–1896) was an English designer, poet, and craftsman who changed the look of Victorian homes. Through his firm, Morris & Co., …