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Alexander John Forsyth
Alexander John Forsyth , 1769-1843, Scottish inventor. He invented in 1807 the first workable percussion cap for the ignition of gunpowder in firearms. Forsyth refused an offer from Napoleon of £20,000 for the secret and was later pensioned by the British government. ... Read more
Luca Cambiaso
Luca Cambiaso , 1527-85, leading Italian painter and sculptor of the Genoese school, known also as Luchetto da Genova; son and pupil of Giovanni Cambiaso, a fresco painter. His inventiveness and facile execution in both oil and fresco won him early recognition. His best works are in churches and pal... Read more
Ludwig von Siegen
Ludwig von Siegen , c.1609-1680, German engraver, b. Holland, educated in Germany. He is said to have invented (c.1640) the mezzotint process of engraving. Among his seven known plates are portraits of Amalia Elisabeth of Hesse and of William II, prince of Orange, and his wife, Mary. His new method ... Read more
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Felix Octavius Carr Darley 1822-88, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter, b. Philadelphia. He is best known for his pen-and-ink drawings, which, for their inventiveness, versatility, vigorous style, and technical facility, placed him in the front rank of American illustrators. He illustr... Read more
Pausias
Pausias , fl. 1st half of 4th cent. BC, Greek painter. He was celebrated for his decorative paintings, particularly in encaustic , a method which he is said to have invented. His most famous single work, A Sacrifice, containing an admirably foreshortened and modeled figure of a bull, was preserve... Read more
Antoine Joseph Wiertz
Antoine Joseph Wiertz , 1806-65, Belgian historical painter. He enjoyed such prestige that the government built him a studio in Brussels, now the Wiertz Museum. He delighted in painting complicated, philosophical subjects and scenes from ancient history. Wiertz invented a type of mat painting and wr... Read more
Johann Gutenberg
Johann Gutenberg , c.1397-1468, German inventor and printer, long credited with the invention of a method of printing from movable type, including the use of metal molds and alloys, a special press, and oil-based inks: a method that, with refinements and increased mechanization, remained the princip... Read more
stone age
stone age Used to describe the period starting with the invention of the first computer (1949) up to the mid-1950s.... Read more
Gaudenzio Ferrari
Gaudenzio Ferrari , c.1480-1546, Italian painter, one of the leading representatives of the Lombard school. He worked chiefly in the churches of Varallo (N Piedmont), Vercelli, and Milan and produced many paintings, most of them now in the galleries of Lombardy and Piedmont. At its best his art is c... Read more
Juan de Valdés Leal
Juan de Valdés Leal , 1622-90, Spanish baroque painter and etcher, active mainly in Seville and Córdoba. He is especially famous for grimly moralizing subjects, as in Allegory of Vanity (Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Conn.) and Hieroglyphs of Death (Seville). He also executed movi... Read more

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Kandinsky, Wassily
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...France Russian painter and graphic artist The Russian painter and graphic artist...the university's law faculty. Beginnings...French impressionist painters that was shown in...attracted Kandinsky's attention. In Monet...intermixed. That was the secret of Kandinsky's...splendid ...
Military
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...although an aggressor's single most potent tactic...cannon. Indeed, the invention of standardized trunnions...has been credited as the secret behind the terrifying reputation of Charles VIII's artillery when in 1494...Architect, engineer, painter, and sculptor Francesco...

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liberal arts
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...for creating the idea of the painter as a creative thinker. His...for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the...in Baldassare Castiglione's influential Book of the Courtier...the miniaturist can work in secret and his portraits are intended...
Bellmer, Hans
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...German-French graphic artist, painter, sculptor, photographer...Ursula and partly by memories of secret sexual encounters of his adolescence...exercises, or strange anatomical inventions made up of of sexual apertures...the uniqueness of Bellmer's erotic art in that they are...

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Northern Lights Assessing Italy's Debt to Dutch-Flemish Painters
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...that there were painters painting just...after Van Eyck's death, he was...the greatest painter of the century...painting was a real invention and a craft secret that northern painters were not going...native Flemish oil painter to be sure of...
The supreme visualiser Leonardo da Vinci's secret was that he explored science with a painter's eye, says Martin Gayford
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...is to find subjects and inventions, gathering them as they...model for Machiavelli's Prince. Additionally...concise guide to Leonardo's mental landscape. Leonardo...he did so always with a painter's eye. He was, as Kemp...
History's Matter Of Truth
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/2/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...figure," says Painter. Her secret: "a power that...became a symbol. Painter and others insist...was the invention of writer Frances Dana Gage. Gage, Painter explains, attributed...before women's suffrage. Stanton...
PUT TRUTH IN WOMEN'S SUFFAGE STATUE
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/9/1997; 700+ words ; ...of black women's strength, independence...says Nell Irvin Painter, a Princeton University...Painter says. "Today's stereotype of black...says Painter. Her secret: "a power that millions...woman?" -was the invention of writer Frances...the symbol. Truth's feminist legacy ...
The Last Supper and the "da Vinci Code" frenzy.
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...as the keeper of a secret that has been jealously...Christ. THE MASTER PAINTER is said to have planted...one of the Priory's great dignitaries...number mention Christ's marriage and descendants. But Brown's principal source remains...megalomaniac that we owe the invention of the ...
Remembering George Bireline: Artists, critics, colleagues, friends remember how an influential painter taught ?the art of the question?
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly; 9/18/2002; 700+ words ; ...visual record. It?s an extraordinary diptych...gives up one more secret. The image of an...spirit of playful invention. Yet he clearly contemplated...State University?s School of Design...drama of Bireline?s abstract paintings...flourish. His work as a painter opened a door on the...
Photographism. (Art)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 3/29/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...fulfilling Hegel's agenda, Joseph Nicephore...later, in 1839, the invention of photography was...acting on Daguerre's behalf, and by the...question of the theft of secrets. Rather, simultaneous independent inventions, as of the calculus...of one another's existence. The ...
Ingenues of ingenuity Women are often mothers of invention
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/6/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...she saw a sign painter who simply covered...wanted some of her secret coverup. But once...career as a women's historian. As she...only gossip that's been around a long...records at the U.S. Patent & Trademark...down women and their inventions. Often, the patents...1988, "Mothers of ...
Kelly's coup. (painter Ellsworth Kelly)(Kelly Read)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...heart. But what is the secret of such endurance? It...was happening in the U.S. and with almost no local...that what I call Kelly's "initial program...life, was like Ariadne's thread: What is the use...all the paths this non-invention allowed Kelly to explore...
Pigments of the imagination Alasdair Palmer enjoys this near- encyclopedic survey of colour in art, from the origins of Imperial purple to the invention of the paint tube
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/30/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip...American portrait painter who is now almost...was kept in a pig's bladder, and liable...on to the artist's palette, but usually...after the great man's death, some of his...colours. What was their secret? Ball is honest enough...