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Jacqueline Roque
(Best known as the muse and second wife of Pablo Picasso)
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Birthdate: February 24, 1927
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: October 15, 1986
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
(Art collector)
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Birthdate: April 14, 1840
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York City
Died: July 17, 1924
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Lina Lazaar
(Art critic, Writer)
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4
Birthdate: 1983 AD
Birthplace: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Mimi Gardner Gates
(American Art Historian)
18
6
Birthdate: July 30, 1943
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: United States
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Rosalind E. Krauss
(Art Critic)
14
3
Birthdate: November 30, 1941
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
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Lucy R. Lippard
(Writer)
12
2
Birthdate: April 14, 1937
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
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Coosje van Bruggen
(Sculptor)
9
2
Birthdate: June 6, 1942
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Groningen, Netherlands
Died: January 10, 2009
Dutch-American sculptor Coosje van Bruggen is best known for her collaborations with her sculptor husband, Claes Oldenburg. Their works include Shuttlecocks at the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park and Flashlight at the University of Nevada. She has also penned several books and been a sculpture critic at Yale University.
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Myfanwy Piper
(Art Critic)
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1
Birthdate: March 28, 1911
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: London, England
Died: January 18, 1997
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Iwona Blazwick
(Art critic known for Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery since 2001)
5
1
Birthdate: October 14, 1955
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: United Kingdom
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Anna Banti
(Writer)
2
0
Birthdate: June 27, 1895
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Died: September 2, 1985
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Virginia Pérez-Ratton
(Artist)
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Birthdate: September 16, 1950
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: San José, Costa Rica
Died: October 6, 2010
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Rosina Cazali
(Art critic, Art curators)
1
0
Birthdate: 1960 AD
Birthplace: Guatemala
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Elisabeth Luther Cary
(Writer)
1
0
Birthdate: May 18, 1867
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: July 13, 1936
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Josefina Pla
(Poet)
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1
Birthdate: November 9, 1903
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Isla de Lobos, Canarias, Spain
Died: January 11, 1999
Josefina Plá was a Spanish-born Paraguayan dramatist, poet, historian and sculptor, who yielded great influence on the 20th century Paraguayan culture. Gaining fame for her earliest poems like El precio de los sueños, she began operating a radio theater for the soldiers in the field during the Chaco War and later wrote many historical works including El barroco Hispano-guaraní .
