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Brewer's: Torso
A statue which has lost its head and members, as the famous “torso of Hercules.” (Italian, torso.) The Torso Belvedere, the famous torso of Hercules, in the Vatican, was discovered in the…1997 NAIA D2 College Football Playoffs Results
First Round (Nov. 22)at New Haven (Conn.) 47Glenville St. (W.Va.) 7at Slippery Rock (Pa.) 30Ashland (Ohio) 20at NW Missouri St. 39North Dakota St. 28at Carson-Newman (Tenn.) 21North Alabama…Brewer's: Leda and the Swan
This has been a favourite subject with artists. In the Orléans gallery is the chef-d'-oeuvre of Paul Veronese. Correggio and Michael Angelo have both left paintings of the same subject.…<i>Eclipse</i> Trivia
Learn about the symbolism, origin of names, and other interesting tidbits about Twilight Related Links Twilight Page Twilight Quiz…Pulitzer Prizes: Feature Writing
1979 Jon D. Franklin (Baltimore Evening Sun) 1980 Madeleine Blais…Brewer's: Cinque Cento
An epithet applied to art between 1500-1600; called in France Renaissance, and in England Elizabethan. It was the revival of the classical or antique, but is generally understood as a…Brewer's: Rococo Architecture
A debased style, which succeeded the revival of Italian architecture, and very prevalent in Germany. The ornamentation is without principle or taste, and may be designated ornamental…Brewer's: Angel
Half a sovereign in gold; so called because, at one time, it bore the figure of the archangel Michael slaying the dragon. When the Rev. Mr. Patten, vicar of Whitstable, was dying, the…Brewer's: Marian'a
One of the most lovable of Shakespeare's characters. Her pleading for Angelo is unrivalled. (Measure for Measure.) Tennyson has two Marianas among his poems. Mariana. Daughter of the…Brewer's: Mausoleum
One of the seven “wonders of the world;” so called from Mausolus, King of Caria, to whom Artemisia (his wife) erected at Halicarnassos a splendid sepulchral monument B.C. 353. Parts of…Trending
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