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Giovanni, Bertoldo di
(Encyclopedia)Giovanni, Bertoldo di: see Bertoldo di Giovanni. ...Duccio, Agostino di
(Encyclopedia)Duccio, Agostino di: see Agostino di Duccio. ...Buoninsegna, Duccio di
(Encyclopedia)Buoninsegna, Duccio di: see Duccio di Buoninsegna. ...Cambio, Arnolfo di
(Encyclopedia)Cambio, Arnolfo di: see Arnolfo di Cambio. ...Lorenzetti
(Encyclopedia)Lorenzetti lōrān-tsĕtˈtē [key], two brothers who were major Sienese painters. Pietro Lorenzetti, c.1280–c.1348, was first influenced by Duccio di Buoninsegna and Giovanni Pisano. His earliest k...Széll, Kálmán
(Encyclopedia)Széll, Kálmán kälˈmän sāl [key], 1845–1915, Hungarian premier (1899–1903). A close associate of Deak, he was a deputy from 1867, minister of finance (1875–78), and later premier. ...Giottino
(Encyclopedia)Giottino jōt-tēˈnō [key], early Florentine painter of the school of Giotto. He is supposed to have lived in the first half of the 14th cent. and has been variously identified as Giotto di Stefano,...Nanni d'Antonio di Banco
(Encyclopedia)Nanni d'Antonio di Banco nänˈnē däntônˈyō dē bängˈkō [key], c.1384–1421, Florentine sculptor. After study with his father, Antonio di Banco, who worked on the cathedral of Florence, Nanni...manes
(Encyclopedia)manes māˈnēz [key], in Roman religion, spirits of the dead. Originally, they were called di manes, a collective divinity of the dead. Manes could also refer to the realm of the dead and, later, to ...Tierra del Fuego
(Encyclopedia)Tierra del Fuego tyĕˈrä dĕl fwāˈgō [key], [Span.,=land of fire], archipelago, 28,476 sq mi (73,753 sq km), off S South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan. It consist...Browse by Subject
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