Biography Category
(py r püzh ´) (KEY) , 1622–94, French painter and sculptor. At 17 he went on foot to Italy, where he worked for Pietro da Cortona on the ceilings ...
(g ´ôrkh p nts) (KEY) , c.1500–1550, German painter and engraver of the Nuremberg school. He probably studied with Dürer in Nuremberg. He was ban...
(sl ´v n) (KEY) , city (1993 pop. 106,958), E central Bulgaria, at the foot of the Balkan Mts. A textile center, it also produces carpets, wood and m...
(v l´ brôrt sn l, sn l s) (KEY) , 1591–1626, Dutch mathematician. He is generally credited with the discovery (1621) of the law of the refraction...
(s kel ä´n s) (KEY) , 1884–1951, Greek poet and playwright. One of Greece’s most important 20th-century lyric poets, he emphasized national hist...
(ändr ´ä d l sär´t ) (KEY) , 1486–1531, Florentine painter of the High Renaissance. He painted chiefly religious subjects. In 1509 he was commi...