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( ks k´ s) (KEY) , c.555–530 B.C., Greek potter and painter. He worked mainly in the black-figure style. Eleven vases and a series of fifteen plaq...
(y t k´ d z) (KEY) , fl. early 3d cent. B.C., Greek sculptor from Sicyon; pupil of Lysippos. Records exist of several of his works, among which the b...
( rkô´l d r b r´t ) (KEY) , 1456?–1496, Italian painter of the Ferrarese school. He probably began his career by assisting Francesco Cossa in t...
1752–1829, English miniature painter. He studied with Sir Joshua Reynolds and made copies in miniature of Reynolds’s paintings. Court miniaturist ...
(y d k´s s, n ´d s) (KEY) , 408?–355? B.C., Greek astronomer, mathematician, and physician. From the accounts of various ancient writers, he appea...
1882–1944, British astronomer and physicist. He was chief assistant (1906–13) at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and was from 1913 Plumian profe...