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Titina Maselli is an Italian pop-art artist and stage designer.
Born into a creative family, she has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and New York.
Maselli's works futuristically depict the modern dynamic life of big cities with their skyscrapers, nighttime traffic lights and neon signs. In Titina Maselli's cities athletes compete, cyclists race, boxers fight furiously - the artist was able to portray all this best in pop-art style.
Titina Maselli has also worked as a stage designer, creating sets and costumes for famous theatrical productions.
Magdalo Mussio is an Italian artist, animator, editor and writer.
In painting he created abstract landscapes and participated in many exhibitions in Italy. In the 1960s he worked as an editor for several Italian cultural publications. Mussio was also the creative artist of a number of animated films and published several books about his work.
Heinrich Schliemann, full name Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann, was a German self-taught archaeologist, entrepreneur, and writer.
He conducted business in Russia and the United States, but at the age of 36, he realized his long-held dream and engaged in prehistoric archaeology. Schliemann traveled extensively in Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany, France, and Syria before traveling around the world, visiting India, China, and Japan and writing a book about the latter two countries.
Schliemann became known for his archaeological excavations of the legendary Troy, Mycenae, and his books and publications on the findings were a success with the public. Critics, however, perceived his work in the field as unprofessional, believing that he did more damage to ancient artifacts than actually served the study of history.
Renzo Vespignani was an Italian painter, printmaker, and illustrator, co-founder of II Pro e II Contro (Pro and Con), which sought to develop new directions in neo-realism. Vespignani's 1944 drawings realistically depicted the destruction of German-occupied Rome. He also illustrated works by Boccaccio, Kafka, and T. S. Eliot.
Benjamin Zix was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator.
He is known for accompanying Napoleon's military campaign, producing many battlefield drawings. Zix also painted portraits, mythological scenes, allegories, landscapes, and caricatures.