an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography

an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures

an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Many apprentices passed through Ghirlandaio's workshop, including the famous Michelangelo

a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism.

a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology

an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds or Gainsborough.