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1821–1905, American financier, b. Sandusky, Ohio. He founded Jay Cooke & Company, which marketed the huge Civil War loans of the federal government....
(fr ´dr kh ä´dôlf pä´n t) (KEY) , 1887–1958, Austrian chemist. He was educated at Vienna, Munich, and Glasgow. He held a number of teaching po...
(f l p´) (KEY) , 1850–1917, Canadian sculptor, b. Halifax, N.S. He studied in Italy (1869–71) and in Paris, and after 1902 he became the most not...
(är´´t m ´zh j n´´t l s´k ) (KEY) , c.1597–c.1652, Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi, b. Rome. She studied under Agos...
(üb r´ grävl ´) (KEY) , 1699–1772, French engraver. Gravelot was instrumental in introducing the French rococo pictorial tradition to England. T...
(noum gä´b ) (KEY) , 1890–1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner. Gabo lived in Munich and Norway un...