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arabesque
arabesque [Fr.,=Arabian], in art, term applied to any complex, linear decoration based on flowing lines. In Islamic art it was often exploited to cover entire surfaces. The arabesque in modern usage derives from a Renaissance design which was Greco-Roman in inspiration. ... Read more
Gordium
Gordium , ancient city of Asia Minor, in Phrygia and later Galatia , now in Turkey, 50 mi (80 km) SW of Ankara. It was the capital of Phrygia from c.1000 to 800 BC Excavations conducted since 1950 have revealed Hittite, Phrygian, Persian, Gallo-Grecian, and Greco-Roman remains. Gordius was the ... Read more
Judaea
Judaea or Judea [Lat. from Judah ], region, Greco-Roman name for S Palestine. It varied in size in different periods. In the time of Jesus it was both part of the province of Syria and a kingdom ruled by the Herods. It was the southernmost of the Roman divisions of Palestine, the others being ... Read more
Juan Bautista Mayno
Juan Bautista Mayno , 1578-1649, Spanish painter. He entered the Dominican order in Toledo, where he is thought to have studied with El Greco. He was drawing teacher to the young Philip (later Philip IV). The Reconquest of the Bay of San Salvador and Adoration of the Kings (both: Prado) and Ado... Read more
El Greco
El Greco , c.1541-1614, Greek painter in Spain, b. Candia (Iráklion), Crete. His real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos, of which several Italian and Spanish versions are current. Trained first in the Byzantine school of icon painting, in 1567 he went to Venice, where he is known to have... Read more
Toledo
Toledo city (1990 pop. 60,671), capital of Toledo province, central Spain, in Castile-La Mancha, on a granite hill surrounded on three sides by a gorge of the Tagus River. Historically and culturally it is one of the most important cities of Spain. Tourism is its most important industry, and armame... Read more
Directoire style
Directoire style , in French interior decoration and costume, the manner prevailing about the time of the Directory (1795-99), from which the name is derived. A style transitional between Louis XVI and Empire, it is characterized by a departure from the sumptuousness of the aristocratic regime. Furn... Read more
Dunhuang
Dunhuang or Tunhwang , town, extreme NW Gansu prov., China. Crescent Lake, a noted tourist attraction surrounded by high sand dunes, is there. The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (Mogao Caves) are at nearby Qianfodong. The town and its environs were long a gateway between central Asia and China, a... Read more
Escorial
Escorial or Escurial , monastery and palace, in New Castile, central Spain, near Madrid. One of the finest edifices in Europe, it was built (1563-84) as the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial by Philip II to commemorate the Spanish victory over the French at Saint-Quentin (1557). The somber a... Read more
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the classical Beaux-Arts style by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan, ... Read more

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Piccoli, Michel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Married 1) Eleno Eleonore Hirt (divorced), daughter: Anne-Cordélia; 2) the actress and singer Juliette Greco, 1966 (divorced 1977); 3) Ludivine Clerc, 1978. Career: 1944—film debut in Sortilèges...

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Arts Review: Pop - Juliette Greco
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; JULIETTE GRECO BARBICAN LONDON EVERY PERSON here tonight is drunk with love for Juliette Greco, the "muse of existentialism". Either...announcement that "Le flash distrait Juliette Greco", her little band set up a loose beat...
The Lady in Black who just keeps on singing `Paris sur Scene' at the Barbican Centre: Phil Johnson meets singer Juliette Greco, while Robin Buss previews the Paris film season
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/11/2000; ; 700+ words ; You meet Juliette Greco, appropriately enough, on the left...She looks, of course, exactly like Juliette Greco should: black hair, black mascara...throughout his life right until the end." Juliette Greco's life, like the unique tradition...
Greco remains untamed at 71
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/3/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...lusting after Bardot). Juliette Greco seems to have lived so...Why don't you marry Juliette?". Davis replied...platonic friend - or in Greco's phrase, "a standing...international reputation, with Juliette Greco.
Play mystique for me, Juliette
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/3/2000; 502 words ; JULIETTE Greco has a devoted British following...a Mars bar wrapper. La Greco, queen of chanson, is...could she still sing? If Juliette was terrified she refused...composers' names. Just JULIETTE GRECO ** Barbican Jack Massarik...
GRECO/PERNISI.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 12/7/2003; 399 words ; Juliette Pernisi and David Greco were married Oct. 18 in St. John...brother-in-law of the groom; Tom Greco, cousin of the groom; Juan Blanco...PHOTO NO CREDIT Mr. and Mrs. David Greco ...Juliette Pernisi
Encyclopaedia of Greco-Roman Mythology.
Magazine article from: Folklore; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Encyclopaedia of Greco-Roman Mythology. By Mike Dixon-Kennedy. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO...and less Greek." At 39.95 [pounds sterling] this is not a good investment. Juliette Wood, University of Wales Cardiff
The Essay: Stars in Stripes What do Audrey Hepburn, Lee Marvin, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andy War hol and Jean Paul Gaultier have in common? All have championed the cause of the Breton T-shirt. Trever Adams considers the `outsider' appeal of a fashion staple
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/10/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Cocteau to actress and jazz icon Juliette Greco (who sang "Rien ne sera comme...about Jean-Paul Sartre? And Juliette Greco? And the Tabou?'" During the...club's birth is that one night Juliette Greco had hung her coat on some railings...
Au revoir, bohemia
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/12/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...likes of Sartre, de Beauvoir and Juliette Greco, Saint-Germain is in the process...the world in the late Forties. Juliette Greco could oust General de Gaulle from...in around the mid Sixties. Now Juliette Greco remains the only survivor from...
The art of Elle Grco
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 6/23/2000; ; 700+ words ; Sultry Left Bank chanteuse Juliette Grco has matured like fine wine...smitten FOR legendary French singer Juliette Greco, the Htel Lutetia on Paris's Left...Pres - the area of Paris which made Greco famous. It is also at the Lutetia...
Singer's lament for the Left Bank strikes a false note
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/26/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...fashionable bohemian-literary Left Bank. Juliette Greco, the singer and actress, one of...another pressure group, rejected by Ms Greco as too political, started up with...fabulous literary crucible", as Ms Greco describes it, three decades ago...