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Leopold Rottmann was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a landscape painter who worked in oil painting and watercolor.
Leopold Rottmann was a proponent of naturalistic and heroic-historical painting. He was the drawing teacher of the future King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Later commissioned by Ludwig, who was inspired by Richard Wagner, Rottmann created the artwork for the production of the composer's opera Lohengrin in 1861.
Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, was an early Baroque Italian painter characterised by his elegant and graceful style, particularly in his depiction of religious and mythological scenes.
Giovanni Mannozzi was in charge of decorating the facade of the Palazzo del Antella in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence between 1619 and 1620. His masterpiece is the frescoes in the chapel of St Catherine inside the Palazzo Rospigliozza Pallavicini in Pistoia.
Herman Melville was an American writer, poet, and sailor.
Melville's hardship-filled youth ended on a whaling ship. He returned from his adventures in the South Seas in October 1844, and wrote "Taipi" the following spring. The book was based on the events surrounding Melville's desertion from the whaling ship Acushnet in 1842 and subsequent adventures in the Marquesas Islands.
Melville wrote several other novels and short stories and many poems, but during his lifetime his works were little appreciated by his contemporaries. Only in the 1920s began to rethink Melville, and he was recognized as a classic of world literature. World fame Melville already in the 20th century brought irrational novel "Moby Dick".
