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Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti , 1830-94, English poet; sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Publication of some of her poems in her brother William's magazine the Germ was her only contribution to Pre-Raphaelite activities. She was a devout Anglican and lived the last 15 years of her life as a reclus...
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein 1874-1946, American author and patron of the arts, b. Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa. A celebrated personality, she encouraged, aided, and influenced—through her patronage as well as through her writing—many literary and artistic figures. After attending (1893-97)...
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Fouquet, Jean
Fouquet, Jean (or Jean Foucquet) (b Tours, c.1420; d Tours, c.1481). The outstanding French painter of the 15th century, active mainly in his native Tours. Between 1446 and 1448 he was in Rome, where he painted a portrait, now lost, of Pope Eugenius IV. Much has been made of this Italian journ...
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones, having outlasted nearly all of their 1960s contemporaries, continue to belt out hits well into middle age. Original members included lead singer Mick Jagger (Michael Philip Jagger, born July 26, 1943, in Dartford, Kent, England); guitarist Keith Richard (sur...
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Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour , 1593-1652, French painter. By 1618 he was settled at Lunéville, in his native Lorraine. He bore the title of painter to the king in 1639. La Tour painted religious and genre pictures, many of which show the influence of Dutch modifications of Caravaggio's style. La Tour's...
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Tours
Tours , city (1990 pop. 133,403), capital of Indre-et-Loire dept., W central France, in Touraine, on the Loire River. It is a wine market and a tourist center, with metallurgical, chemical, electrical, clothing, and printing industries. An old Gallo-Roman town, it grew rapidly after the death (397) ...
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham 1894-1991, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, b. Pittsburgh. Her family moved from Allegheny, Pa., to Santa Barbara, Calif., when she was 14. After 1916, Graham attended the Denishawn School, Los Angeles; in 1920 she made her debut in Ted Shawn's Xochitl, which was created...
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hieroglyphic
hieroglyphic [Gr.,=priestly carving], type of writing used in ancient Egypt . Similar pictographic styles of Crete, Asia Minor, and Central America and Mexico are also called hieroglyphics (see Minoan civilization ; Anatolian languages ; Maya ; Aztec ). Interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphi...
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White House
White House official name of the executive mansion of the President of the United States. It is on the south side of Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., facing Lafayette Square. The building, constructed of Virginia freestone, is of simple and stately design. The porte-cochere on the north front, ...
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Saint Gregory of Tours
Saint Gregory of Tours 538-94, French historian, bishop of Tours (from 573), b. Clermont-Ferrand, of a prominent family. He had a distinguished and successful career as bishop. Gregory wrote accounts of miracles of the saints, an astronomical work to determine movable feasts, and a commentary on th...
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