Biography Category
(m ´g s) (KEY) , Samaritan sorcerer who attempted to buy spiritual power from the apostles. From this comes the term simony. He is mentioned in the A...
(both: sm ´b rt) (KEY) , 1688–1751, American portrait painter, b. Scotland, the first skillful painter in New England. After his apprenticeship to ...
(s mk ´v ch) (KEY) , 1867–1951, American social worker, b. Chestnut Hill, Mass., grad. Boston Univ., 1890. After further study at Radcliffe, Columb...
(pärm jän ´n ) (KEY) or Parmigiano (–jä´n ) (KEY) , 1503–40, Italian painter and etcher, one of the most sensitive mannerist artists (see ma...
(äntä´näs sm ´t nä) (KEY) , 1874–1944, Lithuanian dictator. A lawyer, he became a leader of the Lithuanian autonomists under the czarist regim...
(p ´n s) (KEY) , Gr. Paionios, fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek sculptor from Mende in Thrace. An inscription on the triangular base of the statue of Nike...