Biography Category
pottery decorated with various colors of slip, a thin mixture of clay and water. Slip may form a design on a contrasting background, or lines may be s...
1790–1868, English art collector and philanthropist. He endowed the Slade professorships of fine arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and at Un...
(py ´tr än´j l s k´k ) (KEY) , 1818–78, Italian astronomer, a Jesuit priest. He was director of the observatory of the Gregorian Univ., Rome, ...
(lw zhäN mär ´ d bäNtôN´) (KEY) , 1716–1800, French naturalist. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1778; his work touched many...
1923–, American poet, b. Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He began teaching at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1959. Using ...
(r b r´ näNtö´y ) (KEY) , 1623?–1678, French draftsman and engraver. His pastel portraits gained him popularity, and in 1658 Louis XIV made him ...