Biography Category
(shärl n kôlä´ kôsh N´) (KEY) , 1715–90, French engraver, designer, writer on art, and painter to the French court. His works, more than 1,500...
the representation of a usually fictional character on stage or in films. At its highest levels of accomplishment acting involves the employment of te...
1867–1947, American architect, b. Kentucky. He designed many buildings for Yale, his alma mater. Among them are the Sterling Memorial Library, the S...
1783–1867, German painter. He studied at Düsseldorf and in Rome, where he joined the German Nazarene group and collaborated with other members in t...
(äbä´t f l p´p bäld n t´ch ) (KEY) , 1624–96, Italian art historian and philologist. Baldinucci was a pioneer in research techniques and amo...
in chemistry, minimum energy needed to cause a chemical reaction. A chemical reaction between two substances occurs only when an atom, ion, or molecul...