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John Updike (1932-2009)
poet, essayist, playwright, art critic, literary critic, journalist
- Harvard University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
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
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
philosopher, essayist, encyclopédistes, art critic, playwright, literary critic, correspondent, translator, historian, political scientist, lexicographer, art theorist, literary theorist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
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
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016)
translator, art critic, poet, philosopher, essayist, art historian
- Faculty of Arts of Paris, Lycée Descartes
Mário de Andrade (1893-1945)
poet, journalist, photographer, musicologist, art critic, pianist