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List of names featured in the mural
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), Macedonian general, ruler
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B.C.E.- C.E. 18), Roman poet
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrian, C. E. 76-138), Roman ruler
Richard I (The Lion Heart, 1157-1199), British ruler
Rumi (Jelal al-Din, 1207-1273), Persian poet, mystic
Hafiz (Shams ud-Din Mohammed, d. 1389?), Persian poet
Donatello (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardo, 1386-1466), Italian sculptor
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist, inventor, scientist
Vasco de Gama (1460-1524), Portuguese admiral, explorer
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman, philosopher
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian artist
Raphael (Raphael Santi, 1483-1520), Italian artist
Correggio (Antonio Allegri Correggio, 1494-1534), Italian artist
Suleiman I (1494-1566), Turkish sultan
Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini, 1500-1571), Italian sculptor, writer
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1569-1609), Italian artist
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian ruler
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British writer
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S poet
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse, reformer
Karl Ulrichs (1825-1895), German lawyer, sociologist, reformer
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet
Seiku Okuhara (1837-1913), Japanese poet
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
We'Wha (Two-Spirit, 1849-1896) Zuni weaver, potter
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish writer
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German sociologist
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer
Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. writer
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Goudeket, 1873-1954), French writer
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.-born writer, patron of the arts
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), U.S. choreographer, dancer
Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), Polish musician
Aaron Copland (1900-1991), U.S. composer
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), English-born U.S. writer
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter
W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973), British poet, critic, scholar
Jean Genet (1910-1986), French writer
Bayard Rustin (1910-1987), U.S. political activist
Francis Bacon (1910-1992), Irish-born British painter
Tennessee Williams (1911-1985), U.S. playwright
Benjamin Britten (1913-1977), British composer
Carson McCullers (1917-1967), U.S. writer
James Baldwin (1924-1988), U.S. writer
Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970), Japanese writer
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), U.S. playwright
Harvey Milk (1930-1978), U.S. politician, political activist
Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentine writer
Audre Lorde (1934-1992), U.S. writer
Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), Cuban-born U.S. writer
Randy Shilts (1951-1994), U.S. journalist, writer

Into the Light is the trompe l'oeil mural created especially for the ceiling of the Gay and Lesbian Center in San Francisco by Mark Evans and Charley Brown. The design took a year and a half to evolve, and the executions involved a process rarely used in this country in which the canvas was covered with a mix of marble dust and polymers to create a smooth, plaster-like surface, over which aluminum leaf was then applied.
The mural depicts an allegorical construction site in which men, women, and children are working together to move from the darkness of ignorance into the light of knowledge. Photographing friends and colleagues as models, the artists then altered the figures to render them largely unrecognizable. (sfpl.org)