Discussing Divine Comedy with Dante: Famous painting with famous faces

“Discussing Divine Comedy with Dante” is the title of painting made by three Taiwanese painter Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, & Zhang An around 2006. Pictures below are copy of their artwork (the right one has been numbered). There are 106 famous faces from around the world in this painting (most of them are Chinese). By the way, “Divine Comedy” is one of widely considered Dante’s central epic poem of Italian literature, one of the greatest works of world literature.

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So who are they…? These are list of those people:

1. DAI DUDU – painter
2. DANTE ALIGHIERI – Poet
3. SONG QINGLING – Politician
4. MOTHER TERESA – Humanitarian
5. LI TIEZI – painter
6. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV – National leader
7. ZHANG AN – painter
8. KOFI ANNAN – Seventh secretary-General of the United Nations
9. LIU XIANG – Sport star
10. PRINCE CHARLES – Prince of England
11. DOWAGER CIXI – Empress of China
12. OSAMA BIN LADEN – Militant
13. GEORGE W. BUSH – National leader
14. LUCIANO PAVAROTTI – Singer
15. SALVADOR DALI – Artist
16. CLAIRE LEE CHENNAULT – Military leader
17. JULIUS CAESAR – Roman caesar
18. YASSER ARAFAT – National leader
19. MARILYN MONROE – Artist
20. MARLON BRANDO – Actor
21. FIDEL CASTRO – National leader
22. LAO TZE – Philosopher
23. CHE GUEVARA – Revolutionary
24. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE – Philosopher
25. ZHOU ENLAI – National leader
26. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE – Political leader
27. MAO ZEDONG – National leader
28. MARIE CURIE – Scientist
29. ABRAHAM LINCOLN – National leader
30. GENGHIS KHAN – Mongolian emperor leader
31. PABLO PICASSO – Artist
32. STEVEN SPIELBERG – Movie director
33. FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE – Philosopher
34. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Musician
35. KARL MARX – Founder of communism
36. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Writer
37. LEONARDO DA VINCI – Artist
38. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER – Scientist
39. HENRI MATISSE – Artist
40. JOSEPH STALIN – National leader
41. ELVIS PRESLEY – Musician
42. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT – National leader
43. WINSTON CHURCHILL – National leader
44. BRUCE LEE – Actor
45. ALFRED NOBEL – Scientist
46. MARGARET THATCHER – National leader
47. PETER THE GREAT – Russian emperor leader
48. CHARLES DE GAULLE – National leader
49. BILL CLINTON – National leader
50. MAXIM GORKY – Political activist
51. PAVEL KORCHAGIN – Based on character played by Vasily Lanovoy in How the steel Was Tempered
52. RAMSES II – Based on character played by Yul Brynner in the Ten commandments
53. VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN – Politician
54. GUAN YU – Chinese historical figures
55. CUI JIAN – Musician (The Father of Chinese Rock)
56. HOMER – Poet
57. BILL GATES – Microsoft owner
58. PELE – Soccer player
59. ADOLF HITLER – National leader
60. SADDAM HUSSEIN – National leader
61. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – Musician
62. AUDREY HEPBURN – Actress
63. BENITO MUSSOLINI – National leader
64. NORMAN BETHUNE – Scientist
65. LEI FENG – Heroic soldier
66. HENRY FORD – Engineer
67. CHARLIE CHAPLIN – Actor
68. ERNEST HEMINGWAY – Writer
69. SUN YAT-SEN – National leader
70. DENG XIAOPING – National leader
71. SIGMUND FREUD – Psychiatrist
72. MIKE TYSON – Boxer
73. JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH – Sport official, one of president of the International Olympic Committee
74. CHIANG KAI-SHEK – National leader
75. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN – Poet
76. VLADIMIR PUTIN – National leader
77. LU XUN – Historical figure
78. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN – Poet
79. QUEEN ELISABETH II – Queen from England
80. SHIRLEY TEMPLE – Actress
81. LEO TOLSTOY – Novelist
82. ALBERT EINSTEIN – Scientist
83. LI BAI – Poet
84. MOSES – Prophet
85. CONFUCIUS – Philosopher
86. CORNELIU BABA – Artist
87. MOHANDAS GANDHI – Political and spiritual leader
88. AUGUSTE RODIN – Artist
89. DWIGHT EISENHOWER – National leader
90. VINCENT VAN GOGH – Artist
91. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC – Artist
92. MARCEL DUCHAMP – Artist
93. MICHAEL JORDAN – Basketball player
94. ARIEL SHARON – National leader
95. HIDEKI TOJO – National leader
96. MICHELANGELO – Artist
97. YI SUN-SIN – Historical figure
98. QI BAISHI – Artist
99. QIN SHI HUANG – Chinese emperor leader
100. RUN RUN SHAW – TV producer
101. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU – Philosopher & Political critic
102. RABINDRANATH TAGORE – Poet & philosopher
103. OTTO VON BISMARCK – National leader
104. CHARACTER inspired by the photo taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson in Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948
105. DOLLY – The cloned sheep
106. And… SCHRODINGER’S CAT on the left side…

Amazing artwork, right…?

Source: http://i.gae.ro/painting/

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