For a century the firm's core business was taking and publishing photographs of the Victorian public and social, artistic, scientific and political luminaries.

Strange he should just happen to mention these artistic luminaries.A more direct hint comes when I ask him if he has influenced Government policy.

ON a brilliant afternoon last May, a constellation of political and artistic luminaries from Israel and America gathered on the lumpy asphalt of a parking lot in a dreary corner of this ancient, contested capital.

Madame de Noailles supported artistic luminaries such as Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñuel, and Man Ray.

The documentary scants few famous visitors to Tangiers and environs, which magnetized an illustrious roster of artistic and musical luminaries throughout the 30's, 40's and 50's.

Nono is buried on the island of San Michele, alongside other such artistic luminaries as Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Ezra Pound.

Rebay studied art in Germany and France, meeting many of the artistic luminaries of the day.

It is here that literary, artistic and political luminaries would gather.

Carpentier died in Paris in 1980 and was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery with other Cuban political and artistic luminaries.

Handling this material playfully, he tosses together the film's artistic luminaries and allows them to indulge in outrageous antics, like the scene that finds Sand pleading for Chopin's affections and telling him she needs only a minute of his time to explain her feelings.