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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
poet, art critic, essayist, translator, literary critic, critic, journalist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
John Berger (1926-2017)
art historian, painter, journalist, poet, critic, opinion journalist, art critic
- Chelsea College of Art and Design, Central School of Art and Design
André Malraux (1901-1976)
politician, film director, film editor, art historian, journalist, art critic, playwright, archaeologist, resistance fighter
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Lycée Turgot
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
playwright, journalist, dramaturge, essayist, art critic, literary critic, anarchist, theatre critic
Mário de Andrade (1893-1945)
poet, journalist, photographer, musicologist, art critic, pianist
Hans-Ulrich Obrist (born 1968)
exhibition curator, art critic, art historian, gallerist