Behn, Mrs Afra
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Behn, Mrs Afra or Mrs Aphra Behn (1640–89), was employed in 1666 by Charles II as a spy in Antwerp in the Dutch war. Her first play,
The Forced Marriage (1670) was followed by some 14 others, including her most popular,
The Rover (in two parts, 1677–81), dealing with the adventures in Naples and Madrid of a band of English cavaliers during the exile of Charles II;
The City Heiress (1682), a characteristic satiric comedy of London life; and
The Lucky Chance (1686), which explores one of her favourite themes, the ill consequences of arranged and ill-matched marriages. She also wrote poems and novels. Her best remembered work is
Oroonoko, or The History of the Royal Slave (1688), perhaps the earliest English philosophical novel. Despite her success she had even in her lifetime to contend with accusations of plagiarism and lewdness, attracted in her view by her sex. V. Woolf in
A Room of One's Own (1928) acclaims her as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing, ‘with all the plebeian virtues of humour, vitality and courage’.
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Gentile's gold.(Art)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...born within its wails about 1370. Gentile was his given name but, even by...contemporaries, he was known as Gentile da Fabriano. Gentile's stature as an artist not only earned him his "da Fabriano" surname, but also more than...
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Masolino da Panicale.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...handed manner, although one might quibble with her dating of certain works. Roberts concludes, reasonably, that Gentile da Fabriano's influence, and to some extent Starnina's and Lorenzo Monaco's, was more lasting on Masolino than Masaccio...
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COFFEE BREAK EXTRA: QUIZOPEDIA.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 1/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...common? i) Lucas Cranach, ii) Gentile Da Fabriano, iii) Parmigiano, iv) Pietro Perugino, and v) Antonello da Messina. 6. Which part of a rattlesnake...Thief"/1530, ii) Gentile Da Fabriano (c1370-1427/Fabriano, Northern...
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Crivelli--and more: Thomas Tuohy reviews a study of a favourite quattrocento painter that goes well beyond the conventional boundaries of a monograph.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...ready market for their skills. Gentile da Fabriano was a rare and influential export...that city but for also Camerino, Fabriano, Matelica and Ancona. Crivelli...done by Signorelli and Melozzo da Forli had little local impact...
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Pisanello Redux. (Review Essay).(Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...monastic libraries. Trained in the Gothic vocabulary of Gentile da Fabriano and Michelino da Besozzo, Pisanello's study of classical motifs...verse to Pisanello's art, starting with Guarino da Verona in 1427, followed by Ulisse degli Aleotti...
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Dream to Reality: The Enigmatic Pisanello
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/29/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the painter who had the greatest impact on Pisanello. Gentile da Fabriano's altarpiece now in the Brera, Milan, which may...Sant'Anastasia in Verona, evidently influenced by Gentile's ''Adoration of the Magi'' done in 1423. But...
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The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...period of apprenticeship with Lorenzo da Bicci, was introduced to the friars...of Masaccio," in proposing Bicci da Lorenzo as the one responsible for...fact, Masaccio was overshadowed by Gentile da Fabriano. Thanks to Vasari's vita, Masaccio...
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Journey for art lovers
Newspaper article from: The Press; 6/26/2000; 655 words
; ...employed. Artists and their works to be discussed include Gentile da Fabriano, Jacopo Bellini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Filippo...Alberti, Veneziano, Uccello, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bellini, Titian, Giorgione...
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shoddy treatment for a master of mystery
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Sforza family in Milan (later patrons of Leonardo da Vinci), and the record of a self portrait in Venice...on him in Rome by frescos, now destroyed, painted by Gentile da Fabriano, the last great International Gothic Italian painter...
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Rescued altarpiece; Italy loans painting to National Gallery as a thank-you present for earthquake aid.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 6/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...notes the elegant, gold-trimmed drapery and canopy in the central scene are similar to the flowing garments in Gentile da Fabriano's Madonna and Child Enthroned, an Italian painting from around 1420 in the National Gallery's collection...
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Gentile da Fabriano
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gentile da Fabriano Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1370-1427) was the leading Italian painter of the International Gothic style. Gentile da Fabriano, whose real name was Gentile di Niccolò di Giovanni di Massio, came from Fabriano in...
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Fabriano
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fabriano , town (1991 pop. 28,721), in the Marche, central Italy, in...school of painting, founded by Allegretto Nuzi in the 14th cent., had Gentile da Fabriano as its best-known figure.
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Pisanello
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...may have been a pupil of Stefano da Verona, whose influence is seen...was in Venice collaborating with Gentile da Fabriano on the frescoes for the Great Council...to Rome after the death of Gentile da Fabriano in 1428 to complete Gentile...
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Pisanello (ca. 1395–1455)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...Quails . By 1415 he was working as an assistant to Gentile da Fabriano, who had a strong influence on his style. The two...John Lateran that had been left unfinished by Gentile da Fabriano on his death. He returned to Verona in 1432 and spent...
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Bellini, Jacopo (ca. 1400–1470)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...family of artists. His two sons Gentile and Giovanni also emerged as prominent...Venice, where he studied with Gentile da Fabriano, a famous painter who had workshops...about 1414, Bellini followed Fabriano to Florence. While Bellini was...
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