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Marcel Duchamp: Fountain
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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Benedetto Croce
Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night
jingxi performer
Nymph of the Luo River
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Cousin, Victor
Victor Cousin
French philosopher and educator
Pierre-Simon Ballanche.
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
French philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
Étienne-Louis Boullée: church drawing
Étienne-Louis Boullée
French architect
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
German philosopher and music critic
Kenneth Burke
American critic
Heinrich Schenker
Austrian music theorist