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Theophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier , 1811-72, French poet, novelist, and critic. He was a leading exponent of art for art's sake—the belief that formal, aesthetic beauty is the sole purpose of a work of art. An important manifesto of this theory appeared in the preface of his novel Mademoiselle de... Read more |
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Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina , pseud. of Fray Gabriel Téllez , 1584?-1648, outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. His fame rests on El burlador de Sevilla (1630; tr. The Love Rogue, 1924), the earliest known literary version of the Don Juan legend. Among the 300 or 400 plays by... Read more |
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Enrique Rodriguez Larreta
Enrique Rodríguez Larreta , 1875-1961, Argentine novelist. Larreta lived for many years in Spain and France. His fame rests on La gloria de don Ramiro (1908, tr. 1924), a historical novel of the days of Philip II. It is a classic of the polished modernista genre. Larreta's other novels... Read more |
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Jacques Tati
TATI, Jacques Nationality:French. Born:Jacques Tatischeff in Le Pecq, France, 9 October 1908. Education:Attended Lycée de St.-Germain-en-Laye; also attended a college of arts and engineering, 1924. Family:Married Micheline Winter, 1944; children: Sophie... Read more |
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Emile Male
Émile Mâle , 1862-1954, French art historian. Mâle pioneered the study of French art of the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography of the cathedrals of France. He was a director of the Académie de France à Rome and a... Read more |
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more |
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Giuseppe de Nittis
Nittis, Giuseppe de (b Barletta, 25 Feb. 1846; d Saint-Germain-en-Laye, nr. Paris, 21 Aug. 1884). Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and scenes of city life. Early in his career he was associated with the Macchiaioli. He settled in Paris in 1868, became a friend of Degas and Manet, and took part... Read more |
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Chou En-lai
Chou En-lai Chou En-lai (1898-1976) was a Chinese Communist leader and premier of the People's Republic of China. From the 1920s on Chou was among the top leaders of the Chinese Communist party. Chou En-lai was born in Huaian, Kiangsu Province, into a landed family. Both of his parents... Read more |
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Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu or Ch'en Tu-hsiu , 1879-1942, Chinese educator and Communist party leader. He was active in the republican revolution of 1911 and was forced to flee to Japan after taking part in the abortive "second revolution" of 1913 against Yüan Shih-kai . In 1915 he founded the journal ... Read more |
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In search of the real Raphael
...the past. No-one thinks of Monet except in the context of the...father Giovanni Santi, from Perugino, and from others too, as...death, Raphael's teacher was Perugino, represented here by the National...Ansidei Madonna are very close to Perugino in feeling. ... |
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ARTS GUIDE
...Urbino and the early influence of Perugino. It explores his first works for...Jan. 17: ''Turner, Whistler, Monet.'' Monet spent a few months in London at...The display explores the works Monet produced in London in the early... |
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...centuries, with Durham v Laon Cathedrals, Perugino v Bellini, Rubens v Caravaggio. All...Frith v (the radical impressionist) Monet, both of whom painted great station interiors...s Paddington all women in bonnets, Monet's Gare St Lazare all light and steam... |
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The Medicis' Flower Power
...IN THE hands of an artist, is a flower ever just a flower? Monet, van Gogh, O'Keeffe and countless other painters each gave...in Domenico Veneziano's "Madonna and Child." In Pietro Perugino's triptych, flowers depict greater realism, but their purpose... |
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10 top college museums
...objects, among them Hudson River School landscapes, Claude Monet's "Morning on the Seine," Assyrian carvings, a British...Assyrian stone reliefs, as well as works by Europeans from Perugino to Picasso. www.hood museum.dartmouth.edu |