In 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer was born.
Schopenhauer enjoyed Italy, where he studied art and socialized with Italian and English nobles
 His friends in Dresden were Johann Gottlob von Quandt, Friedrich Laun, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause and Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, a young painter who made a romanticized portrait of him in which he improved some of Schopenhauer's unattractive physical features

