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( p l´´ dôr´ s) (KEY) , fl. 430–400 B.C., Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model for...
(b rnär´d b l-lôt´t ) (KEY) , 1720–80, Venetian architectural and landscape painter, also called Canaletto, after his uncle and teacher Canalet...
(yûr´g n hä´bûrmäs) (KEY) , 1929–, German philosopher. He is a professor at the Univ. of Frankfurt (emeritus since 1994) and is the best-known...
( m´bl k s) (KEY) , d. c.330, Syrian philosopher, a leading exponent of Neoplatonism. A pupil of Porphyry, he was deeply impressed by the doctrines ...
1948–, British theatrical composer. A member of a successful musical family, he began composing musicals as a teenager; Joseph and the Amazing Techn...
(y n ´p s) (KEY) , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His cont...