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This doesn't mean the list of general interests, but for some of you who knows I am into art a lot - these guys somehow influenced me....I would even say inspired
Simone Martini, Fra Angelico Da Fiesole, Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, Francesco Francia, Sandro Boticelli, Pietro Perugino, Leonardo Da Vinci, Correggio, Giulio Romano, Giorgione, Titian, Raphael Santi, Michelangelo, Annibale Carracci, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Caravaggio, Luca Giordano, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto;
Pantoja De La Cruz, Luis De Morales, El Greco, Jose Ribera, Diego Velazquez, Francisco De Zurbaran, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Francisco Goya;
Frans Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Ter Borch, Jan Steen, Willem Claez Hega, Paul Potter, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders, Paul De Vos, Adrian Vandenberg;
Simon Vouet, Louis Le Nain, Valentin, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Pierre Mignard, Francois Girardon, Antoine Vatteau, Francois Boucher, Etienne-Maurice Falconet, Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Jean Houdon, Jean Baptiste Greuse, Guillaume Lethiere, Antoine Gros, Jaques Louis David, Francois Gerard, Jean Dominique Ingres, Théodore Rousseau, Jules Dupré, Charles François Daubigny, Constant Troyon, Jean-François Millet, Gustave Courbet, Camille Corot;
Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Signac, Henri Cross, Henry Rousseau, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Edouard Manet, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Paul Gaugin, Auguste Rodin, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Kees Van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Albert Marquet, Wassily Kandinsky.
Well, it seems reading is what I do for the majority of time lately....I am afraid the list would be even longer than the list of artists who inspire me so I'll just mention some gems and diamonds here... Ever since I was a teen I've had the strong fascination for the English authors starting with early works like "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer finishing up with some contemporaries like John Osborne with wonderful Shakespear, Burns, Byron and of course the one and only Oscar Wilde in between to mention just a few, but these are the guys who I often return to.
French literature is totally different but still I often read novels written in the XIXth century by Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant - the characters in their novels are good when one has to face the black times; Zola is another author I like to read and come back to.
Italian authors I read all come back to the old times but the fave here is I think Boccaccio - his novels are totally different from lots of things you can read. And they help to get through the cold winter nights we have here in the North. Another one, of course, is Dante, but the list has to be short..
American literature is one of the total favourites - Theodore Dreiser with his "American Tragedy", Irwin Shaw with "The Young Lions" are always on the bookshelf.
German Erich Maria Remarque is just breathtaking..."Three Comrades" and "The Arch of Triumph" I often read on an on.
And being a Russian can't skip Russian authors - I'll just name them, cause there's too much to say: Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Lermontov (the best two according to my taste), Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev and Zhukovskiy are the ones worth reading.