Biography Category
(j vän´n bät s´tä p äts t´tä) (KEY) , 1682–1754, Italian painter. An exponent of the Venetian school, Piazzetta combined soft colors with a...
(gäspär´ p s N´) (KEY) , 1615–75, French landscape painter, b. Rome. The son of a Frenchman named Dughet, he adopted the name of his brother-in-...
(fränch s´k pr mät t´ch ) (KEY) , 1504–70, Italian painter, called Le Primatice by the French. He was influenced by Correggio and by Michelange...
(hwän pänt ´hä th lä kr th) (KEY) , 1553–1608, Spanish portrait painter, court painter to Philip II and Philip III; pupil and follower of Alon...
(kärl f n p l ´t ) (KEY) , 1826–86, German historical painter; son of Ferdinand Piloty (1786–1844), a noted German lithographer. Karl first won ...
1899–1935, American aviator, b. Grand Plain, Tex. He won fame in 1931 when he and Harold Gatty flew around the northern part of the earth in 8 days ...