Spelvin, George
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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Spelvin, George. This name was given to a character or an actor in a play to hide his real identity. It was employed as early as 1886 by Charles A. Gardner in his
Karl, the Peddler. William Collier jokingly credited Spelvin as co‐author of
Hoss and Hoss (1893). Its use was most widely popularized by Winchell
Smith, who first employed the name for a performer in
Brewster's Millions (1906). The success of the play prompted Smith to revive the name in many of his subsequent shows. John
Golden also used the name in several of his productions. At one time
Theatre Arts Monthly gave the name to a critic who wrote on other critics. The name “Harry Selby” has sometimes been similarly employed. In England the false name used for similar occasions is “Walter Plinge.”
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Machiavelli's 'Art of War': a reconsideration.(book by Italian political philosopher)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...been noted, evokes the garden setting of Cicero's De natura deorum and the more recent Paradiso degli' Alberti of Leone Battista Alberti.(2) Also noted is the influence of Platonic dialogue technique in Machiavelli's shift from narrative...
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Camoes e a divina proporcao.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...sharp comments on the relationship of Camoes's thinking and literary production and the ideas of Erasmus or Leone Battista Alberti, as well as an overview of the problems of translation during the Renaissance, particularly the translation...
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The Triumph of Vulcan: Sculptors' Tools, Porphyry, and the Prince in Ducal Florence.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...tools tempered in goat's blood (the achievement attributed, anachronistically, to no less a personage than Leone Battista Alberti), and finally, under princely aegis, the ability to make the fabulous stone - "the red stone with minute...
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National celebration; Gallery opens exquisite West Building collection.(ARTS)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/28/2002; 700+ words
; ...their tracks as they are confronted with the colors of candy in a bonbon store. Certain masterpieces stand out. Leone Battista Alberti's impressive, Roman Emperor-like bronze profile plaque "Self-Portrait" (c. 1435), for instance...
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Donaciones de Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, "ignoradas o extraviadas" en el INAH.(Carta al editor)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 6/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Nueva York, aunque tambin fue donado por m. Adems, se ha omitido vincular a mi persona con la exposicin sobre Leone Battista Alberti (de la cual forman parte un grupo de nefitos, designados por el propio Instituto), cuyo ejemplar del tratado...
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The National Gallery of Art. (Museum Matters).
Magazine article from: Art Business News; 11/1/2002; 354 words
; ...the most extensive renovation project the Gallery has undertaken in the last two decades. Highlights include Leone Battista Alberti's bronze "Self-Portrait" plaque (c. 1435); Honore Daumier's entire bronze sculptural oeuvre, including...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The Da Vinci victim; Art expert obsessed with conspiracy took a deadly overdose.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...University of Rome, who asked Miss Eldridge if she could help him translate a book he was writing about the artist Leone Battista Alberti. She agreed to do it in return for the chance to attend the professor's lectures on art, and moved to Rome...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/18/1994; 619 words
; Births: Leone Battista Alberti, painter, poet, musician and architect, 1404; Mary I, Queen of England, 1516; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, statesman...
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Creating heritage at Le Domaine.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/12/2004; 700+ words
; ...lobby are reminiscent of Architect Leone Battista Albertis famous works. An admirer of ancient Roman structures, Alberti believed that architecture was...Italian Renaissance architect Leone Alberti, whose designs are echoed in...
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'La Princesse de Cleves' and the politics of Versailles garden design.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Adams points out that the architectural theorist Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was perhaps the first to consider "the...attitude toward life" (30). A 1553 translation of Alberti's work, L'Architecture et art de bien bastir...
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Alberti, Leone Battista
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Alberti, Leone Battista ( b . Genoa, Italy, 18 February...technology. In the twelfth century Alberti ’ s ancestors were feudal...foreign branches of their firm. Thus Leone Battista Alberti, the son of Lorenzo Alberti, came...
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Leone Battista Alberti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Leone Battista Alberti 1404-72, Italian architect, musician...court, Florence, Rimini, and Mantua. Alberti was the first architect to argue for...Rucellai in Florence (c.1452-70), Alberti used tiers of superimposed classical...
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buildings and the body
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...centuries earlier, on the other hand, the architect Leone Battista Alberti (1404–72) unreflectingly used the natural...and depth, and also obliquely across.’ Alberti's verbal description is evocative, but imprecise...
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Bramer, Benjamin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of Galileo. The problem of central perspective obtained by means of instruments, which had been taken up by Leone Battista Alberti in 1435 and for which instruments had been designed by Albrecht D ü rer in 1525 and by B ü rgi...
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classicism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Roman orders of architecture were also revived during the Renaissance and applied to ecclesiastical designs. Leone Battista Alberti wrote the first of several Renaissance treatises on architecture (1485), based on his reading of Vitruvius...
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