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(both: häns b rk´m r) (KEY) , 1473–1531, German engraver, woodcut designer, and painter. Having learned woodcutting from Schongauer, he settled i...
(bäldäs-sä´r p r t´ts ) (KEY) , 1481–1536, Italian architect and painter of the High Renaissance and mannerist periods. His outstanding archit...
(ôt´ väg´n r) (KEY) , 1841–1918, Austrian architect. A structural rationalism was exhibited in his stations for the Vienna city railroad, built...
( krä´, k´r ) (KEY) , city (1984 pop. 867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It is Ghana’s largest city and its administrativ...
musical instrument consisting of a rectangular bellows expanded and contracted between the hands. Buttons or keys operated by the player open valves, ...
1925–, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period. He...