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Italian greyhound
breed of sleek, active toy dog that stands from 13 to 15 in. (32–38 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 7 to 11 lb (3–5 kg). Its short, thin coat is glossy and may be any shade of red, fawn, blue...
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Sillanpää, Frans Eemil
(fräns ´m l s l´länp ´´) (KEY) , 1888–1964, Finnish novelist. As a young man Sillanpää studied natural science at Helsinki and came under the influence of an artistic circle that included the compose...
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Simon of Cyrene
(s r ´n ) (KEY) , in the New Testament, bystander made to carry Jesus’ cross. He was probably an African Jew, and is identified as the father of Alexander and Rufus.
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Perrine, Charles Dillon
(p r n´) (KEY) , 1867–1951, American astronomer, b. Steubenville, Ohio. He was on the staff of Lick Observatory (1893–1909) and was (1909–36) director of the Argentine National Observatory in South Am...
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Dix, Otto
1891–1969, German painter and draftsman. Dix fought in World War I and returned to Düsseldorf haunted by the horrors he had witnessed. Associated with the new objectivity movement in German expression...
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Dosso Dossi
(dôs´s dôs´s ) (KEY) , 1479?–1542, Italian painter of the Ferrarese school, whose real name was Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri. He may have been a pupil of Lorenzo Costa, but was certainly influenced ...
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Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio
(j vän´n äntô´ny b lträf´fy , b l–) (KEY) , 1467–1516, Italian painter, b. Milan. He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, whose style he adhered to faithfully. There are examples of Boltraffio’s work i...
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Frege, Gottlob
(gôt´l p fr ´g ) (KEY) , 1848–1925, German philosopher and mathematician. He was professor of mathematics (1879–1918) at the Univ. of Jena. Frege was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic, and ...
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Carus, Paul
1852–1919, American philosopher, born and educated in Germany. For many years he was editor of the Open Court and the Monist, periodicals devoted to philosophy and religion. His philosophy was monisti...
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Berkeley, George
(bär´kl , bûr–) (KEY) , 1685–1753, Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman, b. Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a scholar and later a fellow there. Most of Berkeley’...
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Cohen, Hermann
(k ´ n) (KEY) , 1842–1918, German philosopher. He was a founder of the Neo-Kantian Marburg school and was known for his commentaries on Kant. His own works include Logik der reinen Erkenntnis (1902), ...
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Brown, Capability
(Lancelot Brown), 1715–83, English landscape gardener, b. Kirkharle, Northumberland. The leading landscape gardener of his time, he is known for designing gardens that broke with the French formal tra...
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Kimball, Fiske
(Sidney Fiske Kimball), 1888–1955, American architect and writer, b. Newton, Mass. He was professor of architecture and fine arts at the Univ. of Michigan (1912–19) and of art and architecture at the ...
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Behrens, Peter
(p ´t r b ´r ns) (KEY) , 1868–1940, German architect, influential in Europe in the evolution of the modern architectural style. He established before World War I a predominantly utilitarian type of ar...
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