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Vivarini

(Encyclopedia)Vivarini vēvärēˈnē [key], Italian family of painters originating in Murano. They executed innumerable altarpieces that reflect the trends of the 15th cent. in northern Italian painting, from Gent...

Baciccio, Il

(Encyclopedia)Baciccio, Il: see Gaulli, Giovanni Battista. ...

Cerano, Il

(Encyclopedia)Cerano, Il: see Crespi, Giovanni Battista. ...

Conegliano, Cima da

(Encyclopedia)Conegliano, Cima da: see Cima, Giovanni Battista. ...

Vecchio, Il

(Encyclopedia)Vecchio, Il: see Amato, Giovanni Antonio d'. ...

Medici, Giovanni de' (Leo X), 1475–1521, pope

(Encyclopedia)Medici, Giovanni de', 1475–1521: see Leo X. ...

Pisano, Nicola

(Encyclopedia)Pisano, Nicola pēzäˈnō [key], b. c.1220, d. between 1278 and 1287, major Italian sculptor, believed to have come from Apulia. He founded a new school of sculpture in Italy. His first great work w...

Huggins, Charles Brenton

(Encyclopedia)Huggins, Charles Brenton, 1901–97, American surgeon and urologist, b., Halifax, N.S., M.D. Harvard Univ., 1924. He was a professor at Arcadia Univ. at the time of his retirement in 1979 but spent th...

Fiesole

(Encyclopedia)Fiesole fyāˈzōlā [key], town, Tuscany, central Italy. The villas and gardens of this tour...

Bastian, Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Bastian, Adolf äˈdôlf bäsˈtyän [key], 1826–1905, German anthropologist. Often called the father of ethnography, he recorded his observations of peoples and cultures in Der Mensch in der Geschi...