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quattrocento quattrocento
quattrocento. Term (Italian: ‘four hundred’) applied to the 15th century (the 1400s) in Italian art. It can be used as a noun (‘painting of the quattrocento’) or as an adjective (‘quattrocento sculpture’). Terms used in the same way for other centuries are:... Read more
rood-screen rood-screen
rood-screen. Term in Christian church architecture for a screen separating the chancel (reserved to the clergy) from the nave (assigned to the laity). It is named after the Crucifixion figure or group, known as the rood (Old English for ‘cross’ or ‘crucifix’), that... Read more
Minsk Minsk
Minsk , city (1990 est. pop. 1,610,000), capital of Belarus and of the Minsk region, on a tributary of the Berezina. It is a railroad junction with machine, machine-tool, tractor, automobile, textile, and food-processing factories. It is the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States .... Read more
Symbolism Symbolism
SYMBOLISM. The symbolist movement began in France in the 1880s as a literary phenomenon. The term symbolism, however, quickly came to encompass a range of arts, from painting and sculpture to theater and music. While the movement is often said to have spanned the years 1885–1895, the ideas... Read more
Bogomils Bogomils
Bogomils , members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th cent. Their creed, adapted from the Paulicians and modified by other Gnostic and Manichaean sources, is attributed to Theophilus or Bogomil, a Bulgarian priest of the... Read more
Flemish art and architecture Flemish art and architecture
Flemish art and architecture works of art and structures produced in the region of Europe known for centuries as Flanders . Netherlandish art is another term sometimes used for these works. Art produced in Flanders achieved special eminence c.1200 and in the 15th and 17th cent. Flanders was among... Read more
Food processing plants Food processing plants
FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY Food processing techniques have been evolving since the Stone Age. But it was not until these procedures met with the machinery, scientific discoveries, mass production, and population changes of the nineteenth century that the activity of food processing surged ahead and... Read more
Dionysius Exiguus Dionysius Exiguus
Dionysius Exiguus , d. c.545, Roman monk, chronologist, and scholar, a transmitter of Greek thought to the Middle Ages. He made collections of 5th-century papal decretals and the canons of the early church councils. Dionysius, in an attempt to improve the reckoning of the date of Easter, was the... Read more
Lugano Lugano
Lugano , city (1990 est. pop. 26,100), Ticino canton, S Switzerland, near the Italian border. A commercial center in the Middle Ages, Lugano is a popular resort noted for its scenery and climate. Aside from tourism, international banking is the city's major source of revenue. Machinery, textiles,... Read more
Venus de Milo Venus de Milo
Venus de Milo. A marble statue of Aphrodite (Venus), the best known of all ancient statues, found on the small Greek island of Melos (or Milos) in 1820 and now in the Louvre, Paris. A plinth (now lost) that was found with the statue was signed ‘…andros [Alexandros or Agasandros] of... Read more

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