Biography Category
( l´´k m ´n z) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Athenian sculptor, said to have been a pupil and rival of Phidias. He worked in gold, ivory, and bronze....
( k´m sts) (KEY) , school of Russian poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. Gorodetsky and Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev as a reaction against the mystici...
(fränch s´k bärt lôt´s ) (KEY) , 1727–1815, Italian engraver. In Florence he studied drawing and painting and formed a lifelong friendship wit...
a series of radioactive metallic elements in group IIIb of the periodic table. Members of the series are often called actinides, although actinium (at...
(f d r ´g bärôt´ch , –ch ) (KEY) , c.1530–1612, Italian painter, b. Urbino, where he was continually employed throughout his life. In the 155...
or yeti (y t´ ) (KEY) , humanlike creature so named because it is associated with the perpetual snow region of the Himalayas. A figure unknown except...