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Calabrese, Il
(Encyclopedia)Calabrese, Il: see Preti, Mattia. ...Baciccio, Il
(Encyclopedia)Baciccio, Il: see Gaulli, Giovanni Battista. ...Cerano, Il
(Encyclopedia)Cerano, Il: see Crespi, Giovanni Battista. ...Vecchio, Il
(Encyclopedia)Vecchio, Il: see Amato, Giovanni Antonio d'. ...Rosso, Il
(Encyclopedia)Rosso, Il ēl rôsˈsō [key], 1495–1540, Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism, b. Florence. His real name was Giovan Battista di Iacopo di Gasparre. Influences of Andrea del Sarto and ...Kim Jong Il
(Encyclopedia)Kim Jong Il: see under Kim Il Sung. ...Kim Il Sung
(Encyclopedia)Kim Il Sung kĭm jông ĭl [key], 1941?–2011, was groomed as his successor. Active in the Korean Workers' party leadership from 1964, Kim Jong Il became secretary of its central committee in 1973. I...mannerism
(Encyclopedia)mannerism, a style in art and architecture (c.1520–1600), originating in Italy as a reaction against the equilibrium of form and proportions characteristic of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pont...Eco, Umberto
(Encyclopedia)Eco, Umberto əmbĕrˈtō ĕcō [key], 1932–2016, Italian novelist, essayist, and semiotics scholar. His first novel, the best-selling Il nome della rosa (1980; tr. The Name of the Rose, 1983, film ...Tisi, Benvenuto
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