Biography Category
a series of radioactive metallic elements in group IIIb of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at...
early Jewish work included in the collection known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It was probably written in Hebrew between 100 B.C. and A.D. 10...
(bô´´näv nt ´rä b r´´l ng-gy ´r ) (KEY) , fl. 1235–44, Italian painter. Originally from Lucca, he was the most gifted of a family of Lombar...
(b rnär´d b l-lôt´t ) (KEY) , 1720–80, Venetian architectural and landscape painter, also called Canaletto, after his uncle and teacher Canalet...
( güst´ p r ´) (KEY) , 1874–1954, French architect. He left the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris to join the family construction firm with his b...
(d m ´n k kämpänyô´lä) (KEY) , 1500–c.1564, painter and engraver. Although Campagnola worked exclusively in Italy, there are documents indica...