portraiture
111Museum of Bad Art — Informations géographiques Pays États Unis Ville Dedham (Massachusetts) et Somerville (Massachusetts) Adresse 580 High Street in Dedham Square, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 1845, États Unis Coordonnées …
112drawing — /draw ing/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that draws. 2. a graphic representation by lines of an object or idea, as with a pencil; a delineation of form without reference to color. 3. a sketch, plan, or design, esp. one made with pen, pencil …
113photography — /feuh tog reuh fee/, n. 1. the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays. 2. cinematography. [1839; PHOTO +… …
114Bronzino, Il — orig. Agnolo di Cosimo born Nov. 17, 1503, Monticelli, duchy of Milan died Nov. 23, 1572, Florence Italian painter active in Florence. He was the student and adopted son of Jacopo da Pontormo. He excelled as a portraitist and was court painter to …
115Central Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and parts of China and Russia. The term usually denotes only those traditions not influenced by the… …
116Hilliard, Nicholas — born 1547, Exeter, Eng. died Jan. 7, 1619, London British painter. The son of a goldsmith, he trained as a jeweler and began painting miniatures in his youth. In 1570 he was appointed miniature painter to Elizabeth I. He produced many portraits… …
117Peale, Rembrandt — born Feb. 22, 1778, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, U.S. died Oct. 3, 1860, Philadelphia, Penn. U.S. painter and writer. A son of Charles Willson Peale, he studied with his father at the Royal Academy in London. In Paris 1808–10 he was offered the… …
118Penn, Irving — born June 16, 1917, Plainfield, N.J., U.S. U.S. photographer. He aspired to be a painter but at 26 took a job designing photographic covers for Vogue and soon was established as a fashion photographer. His austere fashion images communicated… …
119Sargent, John Singer — born Jan. 12, 1856, Florence, Italy died April 15, 1925, London, Eng. U.S. British painter. Son of wealthy American parents, he was born in Italy and grew up in Europe, not seeing the U.S. until 1876. Having studied painting in Paris, in 1879 he… …
120English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
