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111D'Annunzio, Gabriele — born March 12, 1863, Pescara, Italy died March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, on Lake Garda Italian writer and military hero. He was a journalist before turning to poetry and fiction. His prodigious output includes The Child of Pleasure (1898),… …
112García Lorca, Federico — born June 5, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada province, Spain died Aug. 18 or 19, 1936, between Víznar and Alfacar, Granada province Spanish poet and dramatist. García Lorca studied literature, painting, and music and later was a founder, director …
113Greco, El — orig. Doménikos Theotokópoulos born 1541, Candia, Crete died April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain Cretan born Spanish painter, the first great master of Spanish painting. Documentation on his early life is limited, but it is known that he was in Venice с …
114Rubens, Peter Paul — born June 28, 1577, Siegen, Westphalia died May 30, 1640, Antwerp, Spanish Neth. Flemish painter and diplomat. After apprenticeships in Antwerp, he was admitted to its painters guild in 1598. He went to Italy in 1600 and until 1608 worked for the …
115South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
116Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista — or Giambattista Tiepolo born March 5, 1696, Venice died March 27, 1770, Madrid Italian painter and etcher. In the 1730s and 40s the Venetian clergy and nobility vied for his works. In 1750 he went to Würzburg with his sons and collaborators,… …
117active galactic nucleus — Small region at the centre of a galaxy that emits a prodigious amount of energy in the form of radio, optical, X ray, or gamma radiation or high speed particle jets. Many classes of active galaxies have been identified; they appear similar in… …
118folk literature — Introduction also called folklore or oral tradition the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of cultures having no written language. It is transmitted by word of mouth and consists, as does written literature, of both prose and… …
119nonfictional prose — Introduction any literary work that is based mainly on fact, even though it may contain fictional elements. Examples are the essay and biography. Defining nonfictional prose literature is an immensely challenging task. This type of… …
120technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
