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Meiss, Millard

(Encyclopedia) Meiss, MillardMeiss, Millardmēs [key], 1904–75, American art historian, b. Cincinnati. Meiss taught art history at Columbia from 1934 to 1953 and thereafter was professor at Harvard…

Foppa, Vincenzo

(Encyclopedia) Foppa, VincenzoFoppa, Vincenzovēnchĕnˈtsō fôpˈpä [key], c.1427–c.1515, Italian painter. Giving new life to the art of the Lombard school, he exercised a great influence upon northern…

Friedlaender, Walter

(Encyclopedia) Friedlaender, WalterFriedlaender, Walterfrēdˈlĕndər [key], 1873–1966, American art historian, b. Germany. Friedlaender pursued a distinguished academic career in Germany until 1934 and…

Breuil, Henri

(Encyclopedia) Breuil, HenriBreuil, HenriäNrēˈ bröˈyə [key], known as Abbé BreuilAbbé Breuiläbāˈ [key], 1877–1961, French archaeologist, paleontologist, and cleric. He taught at the Institut de…

Wright, Willard Huntington

(Encyclopedia) Wright, Willard Huntington, pseud. S. S. Van Dine, 1888–1939, American art critic and mystery story writer, b. Charlottesville, Va. He attended college in California and later studied…

Locke, Alain LeRoy

(Encyclopedia) Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1885–1954, American writer, educator, philosopher, and cultural critic, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard (A.B., 1907; Ph.D., 1918), first African-American Rhodes…

Santa Fe, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) Santa FeSanta Fesănˈtə fā [key], city (1990 pop. 55,859), alt. c.7,000 ft (2,130 m), state capital and seat of Santa Fe co., N N.Mex., at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mts. It is an…

arabesque

(Encyclopedia) arabesquearabesqueărəbĕskˈ [key] [Fr.,=Arabian], in art, term applied to any complex, linear decoration based on flowing lines. In Islamic art it was often exploited to cover entire…

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

(Encyclopedia) Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 1834–1903, American painter, etcher, wit, and eccentric, b. Lowell, Mass. Whistler was dismissed from West Point for insufficient knowledge of chemistry…

Mexican art and architecture

(Encyclopedia) Mexican art and architecture, works of art and structures produced in the area that is now the country of Mexico. Such arts were already highly developed in the ancient civilizations…