Biography Category
( l´vär äl´t ) (KEY) , 1898–1976, Finnish architect and furniture designer. Aalto is considered one of the foremost architects of the 20th cent....
1815–52, American horticulturist, rural architect, and landscape gardener, b. Newburgh, N.Y. With his brother Charles Downing he took over the opera...
(mär´d k) (KEY) , ancient god of Babylonia and chief god of the city of Babylon. His cult rose to prominence in the reign of Hammurabi, and Marduk b...
(f l p´p br n l-l s´k ) (KEY) , 1377–1446, first great architect of the Italian Renaissance, a Florentine by birth. Trained as sculptor and golds...
(gl k´m n) (KEY) , 1911–75, British anthropologist, b. Johannesburg, South Africa, grad. Univ. of Witwatersrand (B.A., 1930) and Oxford (Ph.D., 193...
(h ´gärth) (KEY) , 1862–1927, English archaeologist, keeper (1909–27) of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He explored and excavated (1887–1907) i...