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( m l´ äNtwän´ b rd l´) (KEY) , 1861–1929, French sculptor; son of a cabinetmaker of Montauban. He went to Paris in 1884, where he studied succ...
(b rnär´d b l-lôt´t ) (KEY) , 1720–80, Venetian architectural and landscape painter, also called Canaletto, after his uncle and teacher Canalet...
( g´´ r k´r t s) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Athenian sculptor born on the island of Paros, said to have been the favorite pupil of Phidias. His be...
( ´r sä´r n n) (KEY) , 1910–61, Finnish-American architect, son of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen’s reputation was established with his design of th...
1788–1854, American architect of the classic revival, b. Navesink, New Jersey. He studied under B. H. Latrobe. In his buildings Strickland sought to...
change in the velocity of a body with respect to time. Since velocity is a vector quantity, involving both magnitude and direction, acceleration is al...