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Orest Kiprensky Orest Kiprensky
Kiprensky, Orest (b Oranienbaum district, Petersburg province, 24 Mar. 1782; d Rome, 24 Oct. 1836). Russian painter, active for much of his career in Italy. He was the leading Russian portraitist of the Romantic era, combining the then fashionable attitude of ‘Byronic’ melancholy with... Read more
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996) was a major leader in the U.S.-based Catholic Church during the modern progressive era. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin became the symbol, even if unknowingly, of the U.S. Catholic Church's struggle with modernity. A quiet, devout... Read more
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Northwich , town (1991 pop. 32,664), Cheshire, W central England, at the confluence of the Weaver and Dane rivers. Northwich was once the center of England's salt production; however, the manufacture of chemicals has become its leading occupation. It was the site of a Roman station. The rock-salt... Read more
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Pedro Lopez de Ayala Pedro Lopez de Ayala
Pedro López de Ayala , 1332-1407, Spanish statesman, poet, and chronicler. As a royal official in Castile, he served Peter the Cruel, Henry II, John I, and Henry III, rising to become chancellor of Castile (1398-1407). He is best known for his chronicle of the reigns of the four kings he... Read more
Peter Lely Peter Lely
Lely, Peter (1618–80). Portrait painter. Born Pieter van der Faes, ‘Lely’ was a nickname borrowed from his family home at The Hague. He seems to have come to England in the early 1640s as an aspiring landscape artist. His natural enterprise procured him patronage from the... Read more
Sir Peter Lely Sir Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely , 1618-80, Dutch portrait painter in England. His original name was Pieter van der Faes. He studied in Haarlem but worked in England from c.1643. After the death of Van Dyck he became court painter in 1661. Lely painted in turn the great figures of the court of Charles I, the... Read more

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