It was very hard to decide which were my favourites....
Art : I've always liked French impressionists but Rubens is still feels like coming home. It was the first painter I learned to appreciate, probably because I was born and lived in his town, Antwerpen, in Belgium.
As for Literature: Too many to name them all but Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Simenon and Saramago are the ones I always go back to. I know they are all european, but I'm just a European girl, what can I say ?