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quattrocento
quattrocento. Term (Italian: ‘four hundred’) applied to the 15th century (the 1400s) in Italian art. It can be used as a noun (‘painting of the quattrocento’) or as an adjective (‘quattrocento sculpture’). Terms used in the same way for other centuries are:... Read more |
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Boucicaut Master
Boucicaut Master (active early 15th century). Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminator, active in Paris, named after a Book of Hours (Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris) done for Jean II le Meingre Boucicaut (1365–1421), Marshal of France. This manuscript, which probably dates from... Read more |
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Gilded age
Gilded Age The quarter century between the end of Reconstruction and Theodore Roosevelt's accession to the presidency in 1901 obtained its name from an 1873 novel by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, The Gilded Age.The book's satirical, critical tone shaped the way historians viewed the... Read more |
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Sothebys Holdings Inc
Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. 1334 York AvenueNew York, New York 10021U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 606-7000Fax: (212) 606-7107Web site: http://www.sothebys.com Public Company Incorporated: 1744Employees: 1,443Sales: $513.51 million (2005)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: BIDNAIC: 45392 Art Dealers;... Read more |
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Haggadah
Haggadah (plural: Haggadot) (Hebrew: ‘story, parable’). A set of Jewish texts, including the Exodus narrative, to be ritually recited as part of the celebrations of Passover; the term also refers to a book containing these texts, the only Hebrew book with a long and consistent... Read more |
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chapter
chapter2 the main division of a book.chapter and verse an exact reference or authority; originally, the exact reference to a passage of Scripture (the usage is recorded from the early 17th century). Chapter and verse divisions to the scriptures are of comparatively late date; Jewish scholars of the... Read more |
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Neo-primitivism
Neo-primitivism. A movement or trend in Russian painting in the early 20th century in which influences from the Western avant-garde were combined in a deliberately crude way with features derived from peasant art, lubki (brightly coloured popular prints), and other aspects of Russia's artistic... Read more |
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Sixteenth-Century Clothing
Sixteenth-Century Clothing The sixteenth century was one of the most extravagant and splendid periods in all of costume history and one of the first periods in which modern ideas of fashion influenced what people wore. Some of the larger cultural trends of the time included the rise and spread of... Read more |
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Gilbert Seldes
Seldes, Gilbert [Vivian] (1893–1970),graduated from Harvard (1914), was a war correspondent in Europe, and returned to become a journalist, drama critic, and editor of The Dial (1920–23). His books include The United States and the War (1917); The Seven Lively Arts (1924), a critical... Read more |
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Comic books
Comic Books While the comic book genre has traditionally been considered a form of children's entertainment, that distinction has almost never been entirely true. In fact, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the bulk of comic books produced in North America were aimed at an adolescent or... Read more |
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CSO to premiere resident composer's symphony
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