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( r´y l äk ´stä) (KEY) , or Uriel da Costa (dä k ´stä) (KEY) , c.1585–1640, Jewish rationalist, b. Oporto, Portugal. His original name was Ga...
(fräNswä´ äNgy ´) (KEY) , 1604–69, French sculptor. He is noted for the monuments of the Longuevilles and of Jacques Souvré (Louvre). His most...
1585–1646, first great English art collector and patron of arts. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he married a goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth...
(j vän´n äntô´ny dämä´t ) (KEY) , 1475–1555, Neapolitan painter, called Il Vecchio [the elder]. He imitated the style of Pietro Perugino. ...
( ´k n) (KEY) or Achar ( ´kär) (KEY) , in the Bible, Judahite who kept some of the spoil from the city of Jericho. For this he was stoned....
(ä´´b -s m´b l) (KEY) or Ipsambul ( p´sämb l´) (KEY) , village, S Egypt, on the Nile River. Its two temples were hewn (c.1250 B.C.) out of roc...