Biography Category
( b´s nth) (KEY) , an emerald-green liqueur distilled from wormwood and other aromatics, including angelica root, sweet-flag root, star anise, and di...
(äl zhäd ´ny ) (KEY) [Port.,=little cripple], 1730–1814, Brazilian sculptor. His real name was Antônio Francisco Lisboa. Although he was maimed...
(märyôt´t älb rt n l´l ) (KEY) , 1474–1515, Italian painter. A product of the Florentine school of the High Renaissance, Albertinelli was infl...
(vôks) (KEY) , 1824–95, American landscape architect, b. London. He emigrated (1857) to the United States with A. J. Downing, with whom he was firs...
(ä´b bäk´ r) (KEY) , 573–634, 1st caliph, friend, father-in-law, and successor of Muhammad. He was probably Muhammad’s first convert outside ...
1864–1943, American architect, b. New York City, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. He began practice in New York City in 1894. Later he joined w...