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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , 1780-1867, French painter, b. Montauban; son of a sculptor. He studied with J. L. David in Paris and in 1801 won the Prix de Rome. The French government could not afford to award the prize until 1806. In the Salon of that year Ingres exhibited his portrait of Madame... Read more |
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Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier , 1685-1766, French painter; son of the painter Marc Nattier and the miniaturist Marie Courtois. His early works include historical and mythological paintings as well as portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia. From 1737 he exhibited portraits regularly at the salons... Read more |
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir , 1841-1919, French impressionist painter and sculptor, b. Limoges. Renoir went to work at the age of 13 in Paris as a decorator of factory-made porcelain, copying the works of Boucher. In 1862 he entered M. C. Gleyre's studio, where he formed lasting friendships with Bazille,... Read more |
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard , 1732-1806, French painter. He studied with Chardin, Carle Van Loo, and intensively with Boucher, whose style he assimilated. He won the Prix de Rome and studied in Italy from 1756 to 1761; there he was particularly attentive to the works of Tiepolo. In 1765 he was... Read more |
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Alfred emile Stevens
Alfred Émile Stevens 1823-1906, Belgian portrait and genre painter. He often lived in Paris and exhibited there regularly. His chief subjects, painted with admirable technique and color, were society women, fashionable Parisian interiors, and marine scenes. His Japanese Robe is in the... Read more |
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Hippolyte Jean Flandrin
Hippolyte Jean Flandrin 1809-64, French painter; student and follower of Ingres. Influenced by the primitivism of Giotto, he is best known for his religious paintings, such as St. Clair Curing the Blind (1837; cathedral, Nantes); his decorations for the Church of St. Séverin, Paris; and... Read more |
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Jean Baptiste Oudry
Jean Baptiste Oudry , 1686-1755, French animal painter. A pupil of Largillière, he became court painter to Louis XV, recording the king's hunts in his paintings and tapestry designs. He was also director of the Beauvais and the Gobelin tapestry works. He is known for his illustrations of La... Read more |
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , 1796-1875, French landscape painter, b. Paris. Corot was one of the most influential of 19th-century painters. The son of shopkeepers, he worked in textile shops until 1822, when he began to study painting. The classical landscape painters Michallon and Bertin were his... Read more |
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Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur , 1822-99, French painter of animals. She was a pupil of her father, Raymond Bonheur. Her paintings were regularly exhibited in the Salon from 1841. Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity,... Read more |
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Paul emile Chabas
Paul Émile Chabas , 1869-1937, French academic painter. He is remembered chiefly for his nude, September Morn, which created a sensation when it was exhibited in 1912. It was sold to a Russian, hidden during the Russian Revolution, and in 1935 rediscovered in a private collection in Paris.... Read more |
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chin
...profile of adult human faces and are said to be...at the bottom of the face, and being the most...being ‘in it up to your chin’ and ‘chin deep...As the size of the face relative to the...adult and infant human faces, and especially the... |
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freckles
...the skin, often seen on the face but capable of occurring in freckled individuals on any...freckles and not handsome in the face.’ In a subtle line that none the...makeup and skin care, Woman's Face, advises the freckled to avoid...makeup: ‘Instead, rejoice in ... |
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ballet
...floating; your ribs a mile from your hips. Your shoulders press down on your rigid spine. Your head floats on its elongated neck. Gently curved...body or to the audience, rather than full-face (en face) — ... |
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bile
...of yellow bile to make them choleric.But let your friends in verse supposeWhat ne'er shall be allowed...wrapping. The hydrophobic aspect of the bile salt faces inwards, and the hydrophilic aspect faces outwards into the aqueous component of bile... |
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Berlin, Irving
...His first complete score was for Watch Your Step (1914), followed by Stop! Look...Cocoanuts (1925), the Great Depression spoof Face the Music (1932), and the masterful revue...proved to be his biggest hit, Annie Get Your Gun. Berlin wrote and co‐produced... |
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Shaftesbury Theatre
...and Pieces. A year later the Gershwin's musical comedy Funny Face began a long run. Two dramatizations of stories by Edgar Wallace...still owns it. Its first production was Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife, which continued its run at other theatres. The Shaftesbury... |
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weathering
weathering The skin on your face and the paint on your car can suffer from the weather, a process so obvious that ‘weathering’ is a term used in everyday language. It may take a little longer, but rocks also suffer from weathering, with... |
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Auster, Paul
...end, Walt believes we all have it in us to fly—you let your self evaporate, and then you lift off. Auster published prolifically in the 1990s, including the novels Blue in the Face (1995), Smoke (1995), Lulu on the Bridge (1998), and... |
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blind spot
...for the left eye. You can confirm Mariotte's observation and find your own blind spot by viewing Fig. 1. Close your right eye, hold the book about a foot away from your face and look fixedly at the little black dot on the page. Keep looking... |
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Lend-Lease
...towards intervention, particularly in the face of intense domestic opposition. As a...strict (pay) cash-and-carry (them in your own ships) basis. British and French...Wheeler warned that ‘you can't put your shirt-tail into a clothes wringer and... |
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face
face the face that launched a thousand ships...Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604).in-your-face blatantly aggressive or provocative...child is fair of face, don't cut off your nose to spite your ... |
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in-your-face
in-your-face •abase, ace, apace, backspace, base, bass, brace...chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace... |
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light
...saw light dawn on the woman's face. ∎ spiritual illumination...brighten the natural lights in your hair. 4. a match or lighter...light up in prohibited areas face dismissal. • adj. 1...with reference to a person's face or eyes) suddenly become or... |
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laugh
...spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive...uncontrollably. laugh in someone's face show open contempt for someone...and muggers who laugh in the face of the law. the laugh is...laughing out the other side of your mouth ... |
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white
...paper. ∎ approaching such a color; very pale: her face was white with fear. ∎ fig. morally or spiritually...tr.] archaic paint or turn (something) white: your passion hath whited your face. PHRASES: bleed someone/something white drain... |
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blow
...blew a cloud of smoke into his face the spire was blown down during...he blew cigar smoke in her face. ∎ [tr.] cause to breathe...of blowing one's nose: give your nose a good blow...something. blow up in one's face (of an action, project, or... |
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aerospace
...backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace... |
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apace
...backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace... |
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brace
...backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace... |
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carapace
...backspace, base, bass, brace, case, chase, dace, efface, embrace, encase, enchase, enlace, face, grace, interlace, interspace, in-your-face, lace, mace, misplace, outface, outpace, pace, place, plaice, race, space, Thrace... |
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burn
...blacken, brand, sizzle; scald. 4. her face burned synonyms: be hot, be warm, be feverish...an experienced cook, you're likely to burn your vegetables, char your meat, and, if you put your face too close to the stove, you might even... |
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look
...Broadway synonyms: command a view of, face, overlook, front. 3. they looked shocked...once-over, squint. 2. the look on her face synonyms: expression, mien. 3. that...open/peeled, keep an eye out; watch your step. look something over he looked over... |
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laugh
...light of, discount, shrug off.See laugh at 2 (above).laugh on the other side of one's face you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the police catch up with yousynonyms: show sudden disappointment, be dejected, be disheartened... |
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evidence
...visible, on view, on display, plain to see; palpable, tangible, unmistakable, undisguised, prominent, striking, glaring; informal as plain as the nose on your face, sticking out like a sore thumb, staring someone in the face. |
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back
...underside; verso; informal flip side.antonyms: front, face. • adverb 1. he pushed his chair back synonyms: backward...ground; shrink back, cower, quail, quake.back down all your begging is useless because I am not going to back downsynonyms... |
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bend
bend • verb 1. the frames can be bent to fit your face synonyms: curve, angle, hook, bow, arch, flex, crook, hump, warp, contort, distort, deform.antonym: straighten. 2... |
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energetic
...synonyms: forceful, vigorous, high-powered, all-out, determined, bold, powerful, potent; intensive, hard-hitting, pulling no punches, aggressive, high-octane; informal punchy, in-your-face.antonym: halfhearted. |
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evident
evident • adjective synonyms: obvious, clear, apparent, plain, plain as daylight, plain as the nose on your face, unmistakable, noticeable, conspicuous, perceptible, visible, discernible, transparent, manifest, patent, palpable, tangible... |
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get
...bag, score.antonym: give. 2. I got your letter synonyms: receive, be sent, be...receipt of, be given.antonym: send. 3. your tea's getting cold synonyms: become...come along, materialize, show one's face; informal show (up), roll in/up... |
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improve
...help, advance, upgrade, revamp, modernize; inf. give a face-lift to, gentrify. 2. things are improvingsynonyms: get...mend, turn the corner.phrase: improve on can you improve on your offersynonyms: increase, make larger, raise; inf. jack up... |
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FACE READING - HOW MUCH CAN YOU TELL ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER FROM THE SHAPE OF...
...lives. Everyone's face is unique. From our...features. 'We all read faces to some degree every...Moser, 35, a fulltime face reader who believes the face holds the key to your personality. 'For instance...personality. Even the shape of ... |
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Faces
...observation. We talk about "saving face," a matter of pride, a sense...the term "putting on a good face" to mean making the best of...praiseworthy to show different faces in different settings, meaning that our face represents us and what we stand...It is as ... |
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Face.com: Facial Recognition For The Masses
...key safeguard in place: Face.com built its technology so that it can't scan faces across the entire Internet. It can only find faces that are connected within...given permission to view your photo can't use Face.com's recognition software to ... |
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FACES SPEAK VOLUMES FOR EVERY PERSON
...brought life back into our faces, too. One day while...one of those mountain faces that my mother would...a closer look at his face. His jowls hung down...You be sure to enjoy your life," he said to us...resemblance of his brother's face. ... |
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Faces.com Photo Service Launches With Unlimited Prints for Low Monthly Fee.
...During the next two weeks, Faces.com will begin to offer...http://graphics.faces.com/public/downloads...photo blogging, makes Faces.com an ideal community...at a time for upload to your photo album. With PhotoSync...to download photos from ... |
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Face time.(Connections)
...has a feature called "face-time." The feature...face-to-face with your caller if you both have...year, I recognize that "face time" was an integral...makers needed to see your face and hear ... |
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Not all face masks are created equal what is best for you?(a detail on masks)
...Introduction: Not all surgical face masks are created equal...the best face mask for your protection. This issue...questions related to your face mask-wearing habits...you frequently pull down your face mask ... |
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Face-to-face communication comes face-to-face. (applying of face-to-face...
...my article extolled the virtues of face-to-face communication, which every communicator...our supervisors do not communicate face-to-face with people as frequently...source of information somewhere on your audit. Although my audit did not... |
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Not All Face Recognition Solutions are Insecure.
...recent Black Hat presentation about hacking face recognition COVERT, Mich. -- Sensible Vision, the leading supplier of face authentication systems, today responded to the "Your face is NOT your password" presentation made at the recent... |
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The face of Christmas: it is the face of God reflected in the person of Jesus...
...tear stains on her cheeks. The face of Christmas at the Avalon Mall...frighten a little girl. The face of Christmas was not a happy...with a look of confusion on her face. She wasn't at all frightened...polite company if you went over your shoes in icy ... |
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