Biography Category
(py r shärl läNfäN´) (KEY) , 1754–1825, American soldier, engineer, and architect. Born in France, he volunteered as a private in the American R...
[according to the Book of Genesis, Heb.,=father of many nations] or Abram ( ´br m) (KEY) [Heb.,=exalted father], in the Bible, progenitor of the Heb...
American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897–1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–84), and John O. Merrill (18...
(p l m l´ shäbäs´) (KEY) , 1869–1937, French academic painter. He is remembered chiefly for his nude, September Morn, which created a sensation...
called Cavaliere d’Arpino (j z p´p ch ´zär käväly ´r därp ´n ) (KEY) , 1568–1640, Italian late mannerist painter. Cesari’s outstandin...
(käm) (KEY) , pseud. of Amédée de Noé (äm d ´ d n ´) (KEY) , 1819–79, French caricaturist and lithographer. He abandoned a military career ...