Famous people. Part 1.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519)

Da Vinci was born in Italy. Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist and engineer, known for paintings like "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa,” and for inventions like a flying machine.

Flying machine

The last supper

Mona Lisa

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791)

He was born in Salzburg, Austria. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. He created a operas, symphonies and sonatas that shaped classical music.

Indira Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984)

She was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. Indira was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. She garnered widespread public support for agricultural improvements that led to India’s self-sufficiency in food grain production as well as for her success in the Pakistan war, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

He was an American inventor and businessman. He invented phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb. Thomas Edison established the first industrial research laboratory.

Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)

He was a German composer and pianist. He was known as ‘Shakespeare of Music,’ and remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. But deafness restricted him from being active socially. During the premiere of his final masterpiece ‘Ninth Symphony,’ Beethoven had to turn around to view the clapping of the audience as he had become completely deaf by then. His operas, symphonies, and sonatas are still sung and performed all over the world.

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (12 December 1799 – 11 June 1852)

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a famous Russian painter, monumental painter, watercolorist, and the master of portraiture. He also received several awards of the Academy of Arts for his paintings. Bryullov was a gold medalist of the exhibition held in 1834 in Paris. A whole galaxy of Russian artists and foreign painters grew up on Bryullov's work.

“The Last Day of Pompeii”,