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Accolti, Benedetto
(Encyclopedia)Accolti, Benedetto bānādĕtˈtō äk-kôlˈtē [key], c.1415–1466?, Italian humanist and historian. From his history of the First Crusade, Tasso supposedly drew the idea for Jerusalem Delivered. H...Cima, Giovanni Battista
(Encyclopedia)Cima, Giovanni Battista jōvänˈnē bät-tēˈstä chēˈmä [key], c.1459–c.1517, Venetian painter, called Cima da Conegliano. Influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina, he created m...Valdés, Juan de
(Encyclopedia)Valdés, Juan de hwän ᵺā väldāsˈ [key], c.1500–1540, Spanish reformer, b. Cuenca. Suspected by the Inquisition, he went soon after 1530 to Naples, where he became the center of a circle of me...Tourane
(Encyclopedia)Tourane: see Da Nang, Vietnam.Barocchio, Giacomo
(Encyclopedia)Barocchio, Giacomo: see Vignola, Giacomo da. ...Barozzi, Giacomo
(Encyclopedia)Barozzi, Giacomo: see Vignola, Giacomo da. ...Carrucci, Jacopo
(Encyclopedia)Carrucci, Jacopo: see Pontormo, Jacopo da. ...Carucci, Jacopo
(Encyclopedia)Carucci, Jacopo: see Pontormo, Jacopo da. ...danse macabre
(Encyclopedia)danse macabre: see Death, Dance of. ...Voragine, Jacobus de
(Encyclopedia)Voragine, Jacobus de: see Jacobus da Varagine. ...Browse by Subject
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