Shibata Zeshin is revered as history’s greatest lacquer artist, recognized worldwide for his detailed lacquered boxes, panels, sword mounts, and other objects, as well as scrolls painted in both ink and lacquer.

Famous as the Master of Urushi, Zeshin was born in Tokyo when it was still called Edo on March 15, 1807.

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The American photographer, Diane Arbus, is celebrated as one of the most unique Post-Modern American photographers.

Best-known for her intimate black-and-white provocative images, Arbus was born Diane Nemerov on March 14, 1923, in New York, NY.

The Russian avant-garde painter and art theoretician, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, is revered as the pioneer of geometric abstract art and the founder of the art movement Suprematism.

The revolutionary of Russian art was born Kazimierz Malewicz on February 23, 1878, in Ukraine to parents of Polish origin.

The Russian painter and stage designer, Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev, is honored among those innovative artists who worked to create a new socialist culture in the early 20th century.

Born in Astrakhan on March 7, 1878, into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic, Kustodiev lost his father at a young age.

The American illustrator, painter, and author, Howard Pyle, is celebrated as America’s most popular illustrator and storyteller, who produced dozens of classic illustrated volumes, including fables, fairy tales and adventure stories at the end of the 19th century.

Revered as the “Father of American Illustration”, Pyle was born on March 5, 1853, in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Italian Baroque Era painter, Mattia Preti, is celebrated as a prominent Italian artist of the late Baroque style, whose work extended the reputation of Neapolitan painting throughout Italy and internationally during the second half of the 17th century.

Best-known for adorning the baroque churches of Malta, Preti was born in Taverna, a small town in the south of Italy, in the Calabria region, on 24th February 1613.

The American photographer, Arnold Abner Newman, is acclaimed as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, whose pictures of major cultural figures set a standard for artistic interpretation and stylistic integrity in the postwar age of picture magazines.

Renowned for pioneering and popularizing the environmental portraits, Newman was born on March 3, 1918, in New York, and grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersy and Miami Beach, Florida.

The Austrian painter, and writer, Oskar Kokoschka, is celebrated for his dark, emotionally turbulent figurative paintings and intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.

One of the leading exponents of Expressionism, Kokoschka was born on March 1, 1886, in Pochlarn, a small town on the Danube, 100 kilometers west of Vienna.

The Italian artist, Marino Marini, is acclaimed as the most celebrated Italian sculptor who was instrumental in the revival of the art of portrait sculpture in Italy during the first half of the 20th century.

Best-known for his figurative equestrian sculptures, Marini was born on February 27, 1901, in the Tuscan town of Pistoia, Italy.

The prolific French caricaturist, painter and sculptor, Honore Daumier, is revered for his cartoons and drawings focusing on the foibles of 19th-century France.

Known as the “Michelangelo of Caricature”, Daumier was born on February 26, 1808, in the South of France in the port city of Marseille.