Biography Category
(lw l v ) (KEY) , 1612–70, French architect, involved in most of the important building projects for Louis XIV. He settled on the Île Saint-Louis...
1907–83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge Univ. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the hist...
(g r t´ t ´m s r t´f lt) (KEY) , 1888–1965, Dutch architect and furniture designer. At first a cabinetmaker, Rietveld created (c.1917) a chair th...
1804–87, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In 1819 he entered the office of William Strickland in Philadelphia as a student. In 1830 he began pra...
(k ´t äch ´ämpông) (KEY) , 1931–79, government official in Ghana, b. Kumasi. He taught before joining (1959) the army, where he advanced to co...
1834–1902, English historian, b. Naples; grandson of Sir John Francis Edward Acton and of Emmerich Joseph, duc de Dalberg. Denied entrance into Camb...