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Melozzo da Forlì
Melozzo da Forlì , 1438-94, Umbrian painter. His extant works, though few, reveal him as a painter of power and individuality. He is especially notable for his bold foreshortening, in the use of which, particularly in vaultings, he was a pioneer. His known works include the great fresco of th... Read more
Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio or Pintoricchio [Ital.,=little painter], c.1454-1513, Umbrian painter whose real name was Bernardino di Betto. A prolific and facile painter, he was influenced by Perugino, with whom he collaborated on the frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. Pinturicchio worked chiefly in Perugia, Rom... Read more
Terni
Terni , city (1991 pop. 108,248), capital of Terni prov., Umbria region, central Italy, on the Nera River. Its manufactures include iron and steel, munitions, textiles, machinery, and chemicals, and it has movie studios. Hydroelectric power is generated at nearby waterfalls, which were formed in 272... Read more
Italic languages
Italic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. The most important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one... Read more
Perugia
Perugia , city (1991 pop. 144,732), capital of Umbria and of Perugia prov., central Italy, situated on a hill overlooking the valley of the Tiber River. It is a commercial, industrial, and tourist center. Manufactures include chocolate, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and machinery. Perugia was inhabited... Read more
Perugino
Perugino , c.1445-1523?, Umbrian painter, b. near Perugia. His real name was Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci. Perugino is, after Raphael, the greatest painter of the Umbrian school. His tenderness of color and simplicity of style evolved into a more contemplative expression in his later years. He stud... Read more
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli , 1441?-1523, Italian painter of the Umbrian school, who probably studied with Piero della Francesca. He worked in Cortona, where some of his paintings have remained. Subsequently he worked in the Cathedral of Perugia, in Volterra, and at Monte Oliveto before undertaking (1499) the d... Read more
Etruscan civilization
Etruscan civilization highest civilization in Italy before the rise of Rome. The core of the territory of the Etruscans, known as Etruria to the Latins, was northwest of the Tiber River, now in modern Tuscany and part of Umbria . The Latins called the people Etrusci or Tusci, and the Greeks call... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Umbrian"

Umbrian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Umbrian , extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages .
Italic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one to survive antiquity...1000 BC and that the speakers of Oscan and Umbrian probably arrived somewhat later. Umbrian, which was current in the region of Umbria...
Perugia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...machinery. Perugia was inhabited by the Umbrians and the Etruscans before it came under...and gradually gained hegemony over other Umbrian cities. Although nominally under papal...was the artistic center of Umbria. The Umbrian school of painting (13th-16th cent...
Perugino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Perugino , c.1445-1523?, Umbrian painter, b. near Perugia. His real name was Pietro di Cristoforo...Vannucci. Perugino is, after Raphael, the greatest painter of the Umbrian school. His tenderness of color and simplicity of style evolved...
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio; 14831520)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...height of a long, successful career, his soft, colorful Umbrian style underpinned by a stately grandeur that lent his paintings...master. In 1503 Raphael worked in Siena with another popular Umbrian painter, Bernardino Pinturicchio (c. 1454 – 1513...
Piero della Francesca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...across the panel's surface are lit by the limpid, luminous Umbrian light. To the left, a trio of angels restricts the view into...awesome vigor of a Byzantine Pantocrator. Behind Christ a mauve Umbrian landscape is lit by the moist, pearly light of dawn, and...
Lo Spagna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...nickname. His real name was Giovanni di Pietro. His art belongs to the Umbrian school and reveals his indebtedness to Perugino and Pinturicchio and to Raphael in the Umbrian period. His works include frescoes and altarpieces in Assisi, Virgin...
Etruscan civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the Italian peninsula at the time—Villanovans, Umbrians, and Picenes. As a result, many scholars long upheld the...height c.500 BC, a time in which they had consolidated the Umbrian cities and had occupied a large part of Latium. During this...
Clare of Assisi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Favaronne in Assisi, a hillside town in central Italy, in July of 1194. She was the eldest daughter in an affluent, landowning Umbrian family that had links to the Roman nobility of the past. Her father was Favorino Scifi, count of Sasso-Rosso, and her...
Clement XI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...In his book The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, author J.N.D. Kelly noted that the Albani family was of "aristocratic Umbrian stock." His grandfather had been a Roman senator, and his uncle served as a prefect (a high-ranking official) of the...

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Umbrian School
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Umbrian School a Renaissance school of Italian painting developed in Umbria in central Italy in the 15th century, to which Raphael and Perugino belonged.
ubication
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...o ), f. ubicāre (cf. Sp. ubicarse be in a determinate place), f. L. ubī́ where = Umbrian pufe , Oscan puf :- * quubī (cf. L. alicubī elsewhere, necubī nowhere), f. base of qu...
Assisi
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Assisi. A city in the Umbrian Hills, famous as the birthplace of St Francis . The remains of St Francis and St Clare rest in two of its basilicas. The Portiuncula chapel is in a basilica in the plain below Assisi.
Italic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English I·tal·ic / iˈtalik; īˈtal- / • adj. relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages. • n. the Italic group of languages.
Perspective
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...67 – 1337) — all working in the new basilica dedicated to the recently canonized Saint Francis in the Umbrian town of Assisi (Fig. 1), inadvertently began a revolution that was to radically change the style, and ultimately the content...
carnal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology carnal XV. — ChrL. carnālis , f. carō , carn- flesh, rel. to Umbrian karu , Oscan carneis (g.) part, Gr. keírein cut; see -AL 1 . So carnality XIV.
pre-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...the adv.-prep. præ (of place, rank, time) before, in front, in advance, OL. prai = Oscan prai , prae- , Umbrian pre , cogn. with (O)Ir. ar before, at, in OSl. pri near, and rel. to the groups of PER , prī- (repr...
Kolb, Barbara
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...1980); Cavatina , vn. (or va.) (1983, rev. 1985); Time … and Again , ob., str. qt., tape (1985); Umbrian Colours , vn., gui. (1986); Introduction and Allegro , gui. (1988); Extremes , fl., vc. (1989).KEYBOARD...
Jacopone da Todi
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...who sought to live according to the original rigour of the rule. He is famed for his deeply emotional devotional poems ( Laude ), in Latin and the Umbrian dialect, which became very popular (amongst them, probably, the Stabat Mater ).
Bolsena, Miracle of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Bolsena, Miracle of. According to the traditional story, a German priest celebrating Mass in the Umbrian town of Bolsena was disturbed by doubts about the transubstantiation of the bread and wine; these were resolved when he saw blood...

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Umbrian Glee club sings 105th concert
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 6/1/2000; 650 words ; Umbrian Glee Club sings 105th concert Members of the Umbrian Glee Club are performing their 105th anniversary concert...kind in the United States. Throughout its existence, the Umbrian Glee Club has been a tradition in Chicago and has supported...
Musicians salute Umbrians' 105/106th season
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 10/7/2000; ; 671 words ; Musicians salute Umbrians' 105/106th season Very...a century, however the Umbrian Glee Club has been organized...together to celebrate the Umbrian Glee Club's 105/106th...Howard Savage Jr. Since the Umbrian Glee Club was organized...
UMBRIAN WINES LACK TUSCANY'S GLAMOUR, BUT NOT ITS QUALITY.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/21/1999; 700+ words ; ...country. It is not as though there are no Umbrian wine heroes. For the longest time the Lungarotti family defined all that was Umbrian wine. For nearly 40 years, founder and...Until recently, few could name another Umbrian wine producer. While others in Umbria...
Umbrians & McLin climax Dorsey centennial
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 1/11/2000; 676 words ; Umbrians & McLin climax Dorsey...with the 105-year-old Umbrian Glee Club and artist Mark...considered classic gospel. The Umbrian Glee Club with Joy Wright...experience. Some of the tunes the Umbrian Glee Club sang were "In His...
Umbrian's season kickoff reflected great tradition
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 10/19/2000; ; 599 words ; Umbrian's season kickoff reflected great tradition...Musicians of Chicago brought to the Chicago Umbrian Glee Club's inauguration of its 105th...Jackson at the piano. Climaxing the Umbrian Club's ce??? ebration was the Chatham...
`Jennie's Reflections' presents Umbrian Glee Club on Channel 19
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 5/24/2000; 500 words ; `Jennie's Reflections' presents Umbrian Glee Club on Channel 19 Jennie Scott Washington...Jennie's Reflections" is presenting the Umbrian Glee Club in a historical perspective...places and important events. For the Umbrian Glee Club's program, the 105-year...
Umbrian fare at Cavallini's
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 7/16/2001; ; 509 words ; ...B. New Straits Times 07-16-2001 Umbrian fare at Cavallini's Byline: Minder...offering its guests authentic Italian- Umbrian food. Chef de cuisine Alex Leong Mun...grape sauce (RM47.50). As for the Umbrian desserts, try the rocciata di assisi...
Travel: Hot time in old town tonight When she arrived in Perugia for the Umbrian Jazz Festival, Carolle Doyle scarcely paused to find a bed before making for the music - she guessed she would be too rapt in the rhythms to sleep
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/25/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...10 days and nights in mid-July, the Umbrian Jazz Festival invades every corner of...as a way to bring tourists into quiet Umbrian towns that had been overlooked in favour...plunging down to olive groves and the Umbrian hills. Four Italian girls, like leggy...
The Independent Traveller: Crossing the Tiber, after Luton Trails of the unexpected: travellers can now fly direct to Perugia, the Umbrian capital - but because there are no non-stop flights back, you must fly home fro m Rome. Here is the ideal course between the two cities. By Simon Calder
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/19/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...summit of the town of Spoleto across to the Umbrian hills, I paused and gazed down into the...takes you non-stop from Luton to the Umbrian capital, Perugia. The trouble is, for...taken advantage of a brief respite in the Umbrian hills to plant a runway on the plain between...
Umbrian dreams. (poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 12/22/1995; ; 458 words ; ...Nothing is flat-lit and tabula rasaed in Charlottesville, Umbrian sackcloth, stigmata and Stabat mater, A sleep and a death...Iacopo, hear me out, St. Francis, have you a word for me?) Umbrian lightfall, lambent and ichorous, mists through my days...