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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor & scientist
Frida Kahlo
Painter
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Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter & architect
Rembrandt
Painter & printmaker
Claude Monet
Painter
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Vincent van Gogh
Painter
Pablo Picasso
Painter & sculptor
Sandro Botticelli
Painter
Salvador Dalí
Surrealist artist
Chinua Achebe
Novelist & critic
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Wole Soyinka
Playwright, poet & novelist
Taras Shevchenko
Poet & artist
Gabriel García Márquez
Writer
Diego Rivera
Muralist
Coco Chanel
Fashion designer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
Le Corbusier
Architect and urban planner
Antoni Gaudí
Architect
Zaha Hadid
Architect
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Donatello
Sculptor
Raphael
Painter & architect
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Titian
Painter
Caravaggio
Painter
El Greco
Painter
Diego Velazquez
Painter
Francisco Goya
Painter & printmaker
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Peter Paul Rubens
Painter & diplomat
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Jan van Eyck
Painter
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