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Величайшие художественные гении — живописцы и скульпторы

Great art compresses centuries of thought into a single image. These 65 painters, sculptors, and designers — from the Renaissance through modernism — built visual languages the rest of the world still speaks.

Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri

Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri

IQ 178

Blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer who Lived during the Islamic Golden Age

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

IQ 155

A German painter, printmaker and theorist

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

IQ 160

An Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Alma Deutscher

Alma Deutscher

Is an English composer, pianist and violinist who completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams at age 7.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine

IQ 160

A French author, poet and statesman.

Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

IQ 155

A Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and I

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist, author and physician

Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova

IQ 160

An Italian Neoclassical sculptor.

August von Kotzebue

August von Kotzebue

IQ 170

A German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

IQ 150

A Spanish Baroque painter best known for his religious works.

Callimachus

Callimachus

IQ 165

Architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

IQ 140

The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
The Kid (1921)

Claude Monet

Claude Monet

French painter and the founder of the French Impressionist painting movement

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

IQ 180

La Religieuse

Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez

IQ 170

A leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age whose most noticeable works include The Surrender of Breda and The Maids of H

Edmund Thomas Clint

Edmund Thomas Clint

An Indian child prodigy known for having drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.

Frederick Matthias Alexander

Frederick Matthias Alexander

IQ 150

An Australian actor who developed a process to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thi

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

IQ 175

A French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

A French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship

Joan Miró

Joan Miró

A Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist who was considered one of the best surrealist artists of the 20th century.

Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds

IQ 145

An English painter, specialising in portraits who was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.

Kishan Shrikanth

Kishan Shrikanth

A Child Prodigy, film actor and director from Karnataka

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

IQ 180

An Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

IQ 200

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest minds and painters of all time

Leslie Howard (musician)

Leslie Howard (musician)

An Australian pianist, musicologist, and composer.

Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega

IQ 175

A Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature.

Martha Graham

Martha Graham

IQ 148

An American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taugh

Michelangelo

Michelangelo

IQ 177

An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance who is one of the most recognized artists in th

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin

IQ 145

The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

IQ 175

A Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

A French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition to a new and radically

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

IQ 160

A Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) who lived durin

Phidias

Phidias

IQ 180

A Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Worl

Raphael

Raphael

IQ 170

An Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance considered one of the greatest painters of that age along with

Rembrandt

Rembrandt

IQ 150

A Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

IQ 175

A Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

IQ 150

An American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

IQ 160

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

Titian

Titian

IQ 145

A Venetian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

Truman Capote

Truman Capote

IQ 150

An American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor knew for the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

A Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney

IQ 123

An American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor, and film producer.

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

A Russian painter and art theorist generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.

William Blake

William Blake

IQ 155

An English poet, painter, and printmaker.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

IQ 190

An English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's g

William Hogarth

William Hogarth

IQ 145

An English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.

Stephen Wiltshire

Stephen Wiltshire

IQ 52

A British architectural artist and autistic savant

M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher

A Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints

Akiane Kramarik

Akiane Kramarik

An American poet and painter who started drawing at the age of four.

Jason Padgett

Jason Padgett

An American mathematical genius, who acquired his skills after an accident.

James Henry Pullen

James Henry Pullen

A British savant, who created a 10-foot long model of SS Great Eastern

Nolan Gould

Nolan Gould

IQ 150

An American actor who played Luke Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family.

Banksy

Banksy

A pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain un

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

A Hong Kong actor, director and martial artist known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innov

Coen brothers

Coen brothers

Are American film directors, producers, screenwriters, and editors.

Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo

A Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator.

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

An American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

An English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer.

Stan Lee

Stan Lee

An American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer who was Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two de

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

An English actor best know for playing Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies

Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien

An American media personality, television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer

Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Plisetskaya

Mistress of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower (1959); Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (1963); Mahmene Banu in The Le

Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio

IQ 166

Learn about the life and career of Andrea del Verrocchio, the renowned Renaissance artist, sculptor, and goldsmith

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

IQ 165

Antoni Gaudí, the visionary architect who reshaped the world of art and architecture. From the iconic Sagrada Família to

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Часто задаваемые вопросы

Who is the greatest artist of all time?

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti are the two most universally ranked — with Picasso, Raphael, and Rembrandt in most top-10 lists.

What was da Vinci's IQ?

Leonardo da Vinci's IQ is estimated at 180-220; he was a painter, sculptor, architect, anatomist, engineer, and inventor.

Was Van Gogh a genius or mentally ill?

Both. Van Gogh's work shows exceptional originality and structural rigor; he also suffered severe mental illness, likely bipolar disorder or epilepsy.

Who invented cubism?

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque co-invented Cubism in Paris between 1907 and 1914.

Which artist was also a scientist?

Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous; his notebooks include detailed anatomy, hydrology, and flight studies centuries ahead of their time.