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Santa María, Domingo
(Encyclopedia)Santa María, Domingo dōmēngˈgō sänˈtä märēˈä [key], 1825–89, Chilean historian and statesman, president of Chile (1881–86). A liberal statesman, scholar, and author of several historic...Cresilas
(Encyclopedia)Cresilas or Kresilas both: krĕsˈĭləs [key], fl. c.450 b.c., Greek sculptor, b. Crete. He worked at Athens. His statue of Pericles is the earliest Greek portrait statue that has been identified. ...Manilius, Marcus
(Encyclopedia)Manilius, Marcus mənĭlˈēəs [key], fl. a.d. 10, Roman poet. Of his didactic poem on astrology, the Astronomica, five books remain. These may or may not have constituted the whole work. ...Athenaeus
(Encyclopedia)Athenaeus ăthˌənēˈəs [key], fl. c.200, Greek writer, b. Naucratis, Egypt. His anthological work, the Deipnosophistae (Banquet of the Sophists), is a collection of anecdotes and excerpts from anc...Dalmáu, Luis
(Encyclopedia)Dalmáu, Luis lo͞oēsˈ dälmouˈ [key], fl. 1428–60, Spanish painter, court painter to Alfonso of Aragon. His only undisputed work, Virgin with Councilors (Barcelona), shows the influence of Jan v...Damophon
(Encyclopedia)Damophon dămˈəfŏn [key], fl. 2d cent. b.c., Greek sculptor of Messene. He is remembered for colossal heads of Demeter and Artemis, found in Arcadia. He was a skilled worker in ivory and gold. ...Judas of Galilee
(Encyclopedia)Judas of Galilee, fl. a.d. 6, a leader of the Zealots, a radical revolutionary Jewish sect. He raised an insurrection against the taxation census of Cyrenius (a.d. 6) on the grounds that no one but Go...Eutropius, Roman historian
(Encyclopedia)Eutropius yo͞otrōˈpēəs [key], fl. 4th cent. a.d., Roman historian, a protégé of the emperors Julian and Valens. His Breviarium ab urbe condita (10 books) is a summary of Roman history. ...Bridges, Charles
(Encyclopedia)Bridges, Charles, fl. 1683–1740, English portrait painter, active (c.1735–c.1740) in Virginia. He was the most skillful practitioner of aristocratic portrait painting in the South. Among the works...Butades of Sicyon
(Encyclopedia)Butades of Sicyon bo͞oˈtədēz, sĕˈshēŏn [key], fl. c.600 b.c., semilegendary Greek sculptor. He worked at Corinth and was supposed to have been the first to model in clay. ...Browse by Subject
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