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Passion fruit
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passion music
passion music choral music whose text depicts events immediately surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus. The earliest passions, composed from the 9th to the 14th cent., were monophonic and employed the actual biblical text of one of the four Evangelists. Polyphonic passions originated in England in... Read more |
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Passions
PASSIONS PASSIONS. In the twenty-fifth of his Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733), Voltaire took on the defense of human nature against the seventeenth-century philosopher Pascal's misanthropic vision, which was centered around the notion of original sin. Intellectual acuity and strong... Read more |
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Passion cycle
Passion cycle in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most ambitious of projects. The scenes depicted generally include the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the washing of his feet,... Read more |
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Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio , c.1450-1522, Venetian painter, influenced by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. His delightful narrative paintings reflect the pageantry of 15th-century Venice. They also offer a fanciful view of the Middle East, gained through contemporary drawings. His style is notable for its rich... Read more |
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Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda , 1814-73, Spanish poet, b. Cuba. She went to Spain in 1836. Her passionate and poignant verses reflecting an unhappy love affair won her a high place among Spanish romantic poets. She also wrote problem novels, such as the antislavery El Mulato Sab (1841), and... Read more |
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Andrea del Castagno
Andrea del Castagno , c.1423-1457, major Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. His first recorded painting (1440; now destroyed), effigies of hanged men, enemies to the Florentine regime, brought him fame in spite of its disconcerting subject. Two years later he was in Venice, frescoing the... Read more |
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis , 1883?-1957, Greek writer, b. Crete. After obtaining a law degree he studied philosophy under Henri Bergson in Paris and traveled widely in Europe and Asia. Attracted to Communism early in life, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary materialism and rationalism. As the Greek... Read more |
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Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong 1898–1971 Jazz musician Mother Deterred Early Interest in Music Exposed to Jazz in Chicago Navigated Rocky Career and Marriage Performed Heavily During Marriage Breakdown Lost Passion for Music Selected discography Sources Lil Hardin Armstrong was a... Read more |
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Master Francke
Master Francke German painter, active in Hamburg in the early 15th century. His major surviving work is an altarpiece (now fragmentary) for the guild of merchants trading with England (1424, Kunsthalle, Hamburg), showing scenes from Christ's Passion and incidents from the life of St Thomas à ... Read more |
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