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Sheffield, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Sheffield, city and metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 470,685), N England, at the confluence of the Don River and four tributaries. Sheffield was one of the leading industrial cities of England. It has ...

Rolle of Hampole, Richard

(Encyclopedia)Rolle of Hampole, Richard rōl [key], c.1300–c.1349, English religious writer, a Yorkshire hermit. He wrote mainly in Latin, but his English works are important for the history of the language. Some...

Azay-le-Rideau

(Encyclopedia)Azay-le-Rideau äzāˈ–lə–rēdōˈ [key], village (1993 est. pop. 3,116), Indre-et-Loire dept., N central France, in Touraine. It is the center of a wine-producing area and has a canning industry...

Winterhalter, Franz Xaver

(Encyclopedia)Winterhalter, Franz Xaver fränts ksävârˈ vĭnˈtərhälˌtər [key], 1806–73, German portrait painter. Most of European royalty sat for him, and his decorative pictures of court figures are in l...

filigree

(Encyclopedia)filigree fĭlˈĭgrē [key], ornamental work of fine gold or silver wire, often wrought into an openwork design and joined with matching solder and borax under the flame of the blowpipe. Filigree is u...

Lashkar

(Encyclopedia)Lashkar ləshˈkər [key], city, Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Formerly the capital of Madhya Bharat state, it adjoins Gwalior town and is a modern commercial center and transportation hub. Vic...

Randolph College

(Encyclopedia)Randolph College, at Lynchburg, Va.; United Methodist; est. 1891 as Randolph-Macon Woman's College, opened 1893, renamed and coeducational since 2007. Until 1953 it had a shared administration with Ra...

Ruskin, John

(Encyclopedia)Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, English critic and social theorist. During the mid-19th cent. Ruskin was the virtual dictator of artistic opinion in England, but Ruskin's reputation declined after his deat...

Hui-tsung

(Encyclopedia)Hui-tsung hwē-dzo͞ong [key], 1082–1135, Chinese emperor of the Northern Sung dynasty, painter, and a great patron of art. Politically he was a rather ineffectual ruler, but he was said to have dev...