Biography Category
(p vz´n r) (KEY) , 1902–83, English architectural historian, b. Germany. Influenced by Heinrich Wölfflin, Pevsner contended in his many works that...
( mb r´t b t-chô´n ) (KEY) , 1882–1916, Italian futurist painter and sculptor. He played a primary role in the drafting of the manifesto of futu...
( k´´ rn ´n ) (KEY) , region of ancient Greece, between the Achelous River and the Ionian Sea. The chief city was Stratos. The Acarnanians sided w...
(äNr ´ väN d v ld) (KEY) , 1863–1957, Belgian designer and architect. Beginning as a painter, critic, and crafts designer in Belgium and in Fran...
(zhôz f´ zhäk räm ´) (KEY) , 1764–1842, French architect. He left France in 1792 and was active in Germany (where he built the Hamburg Exchange...
(äNdr ´ l n ´tr ) (KEY) , 1613–1700, French landscape architect. Lenôtre’s first important design, the park of Vaux-le-Vicomte, attracted the ...