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Masaccio

(Encyclopedia)Masaccio mäzätˈchō [key], 1401–1428?, Italian painter. He is the foremost Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance in the early 15th cent. Masaccio's original name was Tommaso Guidi. He was...

Giordano, Luca

(Encyclopedia)Giordano, Luca lo͞oˈkä jōrdäˈnō [key], 1632–1705, Italian decorative painter, b. Naples. He was the pupil of Ribera and Pietro da Cortona. He imitated the works of the great masters with amaz...

Perpendicular style

(Encyclopedia)Perpendicular style, term given the final period of English Gothic architecture (late 14th–middle 16th cent.) because of the predominating vertical lines of its tracery and paneling. It is also call...

Scarlatti, Alessandro

(Encyclopedia)Scarlatti, Alessandro älĕs-sänˈdrō skärlätˈtē [key], 1660–1725, Italian composer. He may have studied with Carissimi in Rome, where his first opera was produced in 1679. In 1684 he went to ...

Civitali, Matteo

(Encyclopedia)Civitali, Matteo mät–tĕˈō chēvētäˈlē [key], 1436–1501, Italian sculptor and architect, born and worked in Lucca, where his work is best represented. Trained in Florence, he executed elabo...

Bürglen

(Encyclopedia)Bürglen bürkˈlən [key], town, Uri canton, central Switzerland. It is the legendary birthp...

San Isidro

(Encyclopedia)San Isidro sän ēsēˈᵺrō [key], city (1991 pop. 299,022), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. San Isidro grew around a chapel...

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

(Encyclopedia)Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da jōvänˈnē pyārlo͞oēˈjē päˌlāstrēˈnä [key], c.1525–1594, Italian composer whose family name was Pierluigi; b. Palestrina, from which he took his name. ...

Mission

(Encyclopedia)Mission, city (1990 pop. 28,653), Hidalgo co., extreme S Tex.; inc. 1910. It is a processing and canning center for citrus fruits (especially grapefruit) and vegetables grown in the irrigated lower Ri...

Ormskirk

(Encyclopedia)Ormskirk ôrmzˈkûrk [key], town (1991 pop. 27,308), Lancashire, N England. Ormskirk is a market town. Silk and cotton textiles and metal goods are made. The church, with an embattled tower, contains...