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Amboise, Georges d'

(Encyclopedia)Amboise, Georges d' zhôrzh däNbwäzˈ [key], 1460–1510, French statesman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He became archbishop of Rouen in 1493. In 1498, as an intimate friend of the new ki...

Finn mac Cumhail

(Encyclopedia)Finn mac Cumhail, Fionn mac Cumhail, or Finn MacCool all: fĭn məko͞olˈ [key], semimythical Irish hero. His exploits are recorded in long narrative poems by Ossian and in many ballads, called Feni...

Velde, Henri van de

(Encyclopedia)Velde, Henri van de äNrēˈ väN də vĕld [key], 1863–1957, Belgian designer and architect. Beginning as a painter, critic, and crafts designer in Belgium and in France, he received his first grea...

Orvieto

(Encyclopedia)Orvieto ōrvyĕˈtō [key], city (1991 pop. 21,419), in Umbria, central Italy, on the Poglia River. Situated at the top of a rocky hill, it is a tourist and pilgrimage center. Orvieto is probably loca...

Paderborn

(Encyclopedia)Paderborn päˌdərbôrnˈ [key], city (1994 pop. 130,130), North Rhine–Westphalia, NW Germany. It is an agricultural market and industrial center; manufactures include chemicals, building materials...

Jefferson City

(Encyclopedia)Jefferson City, city (1990 pop. 35,481), state capital and seat of Cole co., central Mo., on the south bank of the Missouri River, near the mouth of the Osage; inc. 1825. The state government is the m...

handkerchief

(Encyclopedia)handkerchief. In classical Greece pieces of fine perfumed cotton, known as mouth or perspiration cloths, were often used by the wealthy. From the 1st cent. b.c., Roman men of rank used an oblong cloth...

Anguissola, Sofonisba

(Encyclopedia)Anguissola or Anguisciola, Sofonisba sōfōnēsˈbä ängˌēsōˈlä, –shōlä [key], c.1535–1625, Italian painter. Born to a noble family, she studied with Bernardino Campi and later with Michel...

Harnoncourt, Nikolaus

(Encyclopedia)Harnoncourt, Nikolaus (Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt), 1929–2016, Austrian conductor, b. Berlin, studied Vienna Music Academy (1948–52). A pioneer in the early-mu...

pendentive

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Pendentives pendentive, in architecture, a constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, whic...