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Prototype
Prototype Prototypes are working models of entrepreneurial ideas for new products. With certain types of products, prototypes are almost indispensable, and funding and building them the first test of the enterprise. On the other hand, an entrepreneur armed with a good prototype is able to show... Read more |
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James Northcote
James Northcote , 1746-1831, English historical and portrait painter. He worked as assistant to Reynolds and studied at the Royal Academy. From 1777 to 1780 he studied in Italy and on his return painted a series of pictures for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, including the well-known Murder of the... Read more |
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pinacotheca
pinacotheca (Greek: ‘picture repository’). A name originally applied to a picture gallery in the Propylaea (gateway) of the Acropolis at Athens; it was open to the public by the 2nd century ad. The word was adopted by the Romans for galleries of private collectors, and in modern times... Read more |
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Aliyah
ALIYAH Hebrew term for Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Hebrew word for "ascent," aliyah (also aliya ) is the term used in both religious tradition and secular Zionism to refer to Jewish immigration to Palestine. Within those ideological frameworks, emigration from Israel is called... Read more |
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Bonifazio Veronese
Bonifazio Veronese ( Bonifazio de' Pitati) (b Verona, c.1487; d Venice, 19 Oct. 1553). Italian painter, active for all his known career in Venice, where he based his style on Giorgione, Titian, and Palma Vecchio. There are few signed, dated, or documented works by him, but he appears to have run a... Read more |
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Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne , 1839-1906, French painter, b. Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne was the leading figure in the revolution toward abstraction in modern painting. Early Life and Work From early childhood Cézanne was a close friend of Émile Zola , who for a time encouraged the... Read more |
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Andrea Schiavone
Schiavone, Andrea ( Andrea Meldolla) (b Zara, Dalmatia [now Zadar, Croatia], c.1510/15; d Venice, 1 Dec. 1563). Italian painter and etcher. His nickname Schiavone means ‘Slav’, reflecting the fact that he was born in Dalmatia (then under Venetian jurisdiction), although his family... Read more |
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Tintoretto
Tintoretto , 1518-94, Venetian painter, whose real name was Jacopo Robusti. Tintoretto is considered one of the greatest painters in the Venetian tradition. He was called Il Tintoretto [little dyer] from his father's trade. Early Life and Work According to tradition, Tintoretto studied for a brief... Read more |
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