Biography Category
(Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) (bôl´th s, b l´–) (KEY) , 1908–2001, Polish-French painter, b. Paris. Balthus is widely regarded as one of...
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. ...
(jä´k m d l´lä pôr´tä) (KEY) , c.1540–1602, Italian architect and sculptor. After working with Vignola and Michelangelo, he completed severa...
1831–1915, English architect. His influence, together with that of R. N. Shaw and W. E. Nesfield, established after the mid-19th cent. a revival of ...
( ´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....