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1768–1821, English landscape painter, b. Norwich. Crome was the principal painter of the Norwich school. He is often called Old Crome to distinguish...
(kr sh´ s) (KEY) , or Kritios (kr t´ s) (KEY) , and Nesiotes (n sh ´t z) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek sculptors, in the time of the Persian ...
(both: l ´käs krä´näkh) (KEY) , the Elder, 1472–1553, German painter and engraver. He settled in Wittenberg c.1504 and was court painter succes...
(kr k´sh ngk) (KEY) , 1792–1878, English caricaturist, illustrator, and etcher; younger son of Isaac Cruikshank (1756–1810), caricaturist. Self-t...
(güstäv´ k rb ´) (KEY) , 1819–77, French painter, b. Ornans. He studied in Paris, learning chiefly by copying masterpieces in the Louvre. An avo...
(hwän d lä thy r´vä) (KEY) , 1895–1936, Spanish aeronautical engineer, inventor of a rotary-wing aircraft called an autogiro. He flew his first...