Biography Category
(by ´ k) (KEY) , 1753–1828, English wood engraver. Bewick pioneered in the revival of original wood engraving. Among his famous early works are his...
(Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) (v tr ´v s) (KEY) , fl. late 1st cent. B.C. and early 1st cent. A.D., Roman writer, engineer, and architect for the Empero...
(m ´ r) (KEY) , 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York “Five” ...
movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following dec...
(y ´hän bältäsär´ noi´män) (KEY) , 1687–1753, German architect. He traveled (1718) in Austria and N Italy and studied (1723) in Paris. Neuma...
1905–82, Mexican architect. Trained by Villagran Garcia, O’Gorman produced designs adapting the International style to Mexican requirements. O’G...