Biography Category
(ändr ´ä p zä´n ) (KEY) , c.1290–c.1348, Italian sculptor, also called Andrea da Pontedera. His most important work, the first bronze doors of ...
(mät-t ´ä pr ´t ) (KEY) , 1613–99, Italian baroque painter, called Il Calabrese for his birthplace. Preti went to Rome c.1630 and studied with L...
(fränth s´k päch ´k ) (KEY) , c.1564–1654, Spanish portrait and religious painter. Although fine examples of his work are in the galleries of M...
(zhäN p t t ´) (KEY) , 1607–91, French painter in enamel, b. Switzerland. He was apprentice and later partner to a goldsmith, Pierre Bordier, whom...
(b rnär´ päl s ´) (KEY) , c.1510–c.1589, French potter. For 16 years he worked in vain to imitate white-glazed pottery (probably Chinese), even ...
(m kh´ä l pä´kh r) (KEY) , c.1435–1498, German religious painter and probably a wood carver, a native of the Tyrol. He painted figures reminisce...