Biography Category
(äk-käd ´m ä d l´lä kr s´kä) (KEY) [Ital.,=academy of the chaff], Italian literary society founded in Florence in 1582 to maintain the purity...
(m k´ nt r´´) (KEY) , 1757–1811, American architect and woodcarver, b. Salem, Mass. He developed high skill as a joiner and housewright and in wo...
(k l m´ k s) (KEY) , fl. 2d half of 5th cent. B.C., Greek sculptor from Athens. He was famous as the maker of the gold lamp in the Erechtheum and a s...
(j vän´n bät-t ´stä ch ´mä) (KEY) , c.1459–c.1517, Venetian painter, called Cima da Conegliano. Influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello...
(ält ky ´r dä ts v´y ) (KEY) , c.1330–c.1395, Italian painter, follower of Giotto. He worked in Verona and then Padua. His frescoes in the chur...
1850–91, American architect, b. Lumpkin, Ga. He worked in New York City with James Renwick and became a partner of D. H. Burnham in Chicago. The fir...