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...
(Claudius Ptolemaeus), fl. 2d cent. A.D., celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He made his observations in Alexandria ...
1858–1938, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1879). He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...
(Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) (pä´bl p kä´s ; r th´ ) (KEY) , 1881–1973, Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist, who worked in Fra...
c.1763–1837, English miniature painter. He was an apprentice to Richard Cosway. His fine portraits are to be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum ...