He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exeget, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb () also Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ) (), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

He was a leading authority on traditional Thai culture and had a polymathic range of interests from Thailand's classical dance to literature.

Twining was polymathic in his interests, and was active in the worlds of model railways, art and design, aeronautics, astronomy and photography, ships and ship models, and stained glass.

The term had appeared much earlier, however, in the work of the polymathic Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve (" Hugh MacDiarmid ") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a " Scottish Renascence as swift and irresistible as was the Belgian Revival between 1880 and 1910.

Farey was polymathic in his interests and contributed text and drawings to a number of periodicals and encyclopaedias.

Thomas Albert Sebeok ( born Sebők in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920 ; died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana ) was a polymathic American semiotician and linguist.

Shen Kuo or Shen Gua () ( 1031 – 1095 ), style name Cunzhong ( 存中 ) and pseudonym Mengqi ( now usually given as Mengxi ) Weng ( 夢溪翁 ), was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

Her first novel ( Speedy Death, 1929 ) introduced Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a polymathic psychoanalyst and author who was featured in a further 65 novels.

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet.

The lordly poet was at low-water mark.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

The epic language was not entirely the servant of the poet ; ;

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

760 d. 18 February 814 ) was a Frank who served Charlemagne as a diplomat, abbot, poet and semi-son-in-law.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Gloomy and unkempt as Red McIver was, he was much the better painter.

Mr. Ball was a house painter.

In a sense, perhaps, Thurber is indebted artistically to the surrealist painter ( was it Salvador Dali??

In the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, right up to the early nineteenth century, the painter was a giant in the world.

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

He was the father of the painter Cristofano Allori ( 1577 – 1621 ).

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

His heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

In Colmar, Dürer was welcomed by Schongauer's brothers, the goldsmiths Caspar and Paul and the painter Ludwig.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background ; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter.

His father, Giovanni Giacometti, was a painter.

Albrecht Altdorfer ( c. 1480-February 12, 1538 ) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.

He acquired an interest in art from his father, Ulrich Altdorfer, who was a painter and miniaturist.

Altdorfer was the pioneer painter of pure landscape, making them the subject of the painting, as well as compositions dominated by their landscape.

Albrecht's brother, Erhard Altdorfer, was also a painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving, and a pupil of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Agostino Carracci ( or Caracci ) ( 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602 ) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

Agostino's son Antonio Carracci was also a painter, and attempted to compete with his father's Academy.