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(Encyclopedia)navigation, science and technology of finding the position and directing the course of vessels and aircraft. The next great revolution in navigation occurred in the 20th cent., when radio signals ...madrigal
(Encyclopedia)madrigal, name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent. The poetic madrig...Arias de Ávila, Pedro
(Encyclopedia)Arias de Ávila, Pedro pāᵺräˈryäs [key], c.1440–1531, Spanish colonial administrator. He was sent (1514) as governor to Darién (now part of Panama), then under the rule of Vasco Núñez de Ba...Sangallo
(Encyclopedia)Sangallo säng-gälˈlō [key], three Italian Renaissance architects, two brothers and their nephew. Giuliano da Sangallo, 1445–1516, designed the Church of Santa Maria delle Carceri at Prato and pa...Brazilian literature
(Encyclopedia)Brazilian literature, the writings of both the European explorers of Brazil and its later inhabitants. In 1902 Euclides da Cunha wrote his masterly description of an uprising in the Brazilian northe...Cima, Giovanni Battista
(Encyclopedia)Cima, Giovanni Battista jōvänˈnē bät-tēˈstä chēˈmä [key], c.1459–c.1517, Venetian painter, called Cima da Conegliano. Influenced by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina, he created m...Tourane
(Encyclopedia)Tourane: see Da Nang, Vietnam.Barocchio, Giacomo
(Encyclopedia)Barocchio, Giacomo: see Vignola, Giacomo da. ...Barozzi, Giacomo
(Encyclopedia)Barozzi, Giacomo: see Vignola, Giacomo da. ...Carrucci, Jacopo
(Encyclopedia)Carrucci, Jacopo: see Pontormo, Jacopo da. ...Browse by Subject
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