Biography Category
(r zäl´bä kär-r ´rä) (KEY) , 1675–1757, Italian portrait and miniature painter, one of the greatest of her day. At 24 she had achieved a repu...
(h b´l ) (KEY) , pseud. Phiz, 1815–82, English illustrator. At 21 he was chosen by Charles Dickens to illustrate Pickwick Papers. His success was i...
(p l dô´r käldä´rä dä käräväd´j ) (KEY) , c.1496–1543, Italian painter. His surname, Caravaggio, came from his birthplace. A student of ...
(ä´dôlf l s) (KEY) , 1870–1933, Austrian architect. His rationalist design theories were strongly influenced by his stay in the United States fro...
( k n´sh s) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, young man who loved Cydippe. He met her at a festival of Artemis and threw before her an apple inscribed, “...
(ärkh p n´k ) (KEY) , 1887–1964, Ukrainian-American sculptor. As a youth in Paris he began to adapt cubist technique to sculpture. In 1910 he open...