Biography Category
(äNr ´ r s ´) (KEY) , 1844–1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was, from the first, entirely self-taught, and his work remained consiste...
(r m´br nt, Du. r m´bränt här´m ns n vän r n) (KEY) , 1606–69, Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman, b. Leiden. Rembrandt is acknowledged as t...
( lä´ s, ´l röm´ r) (KEY) , 1644–1710, Danish astronomer. He is noted for his discovery that light travels at a definite speed and does not m...
(kr s´tyän dä´ny l roukh) (KEY) , 1777–1857, German sculptor. After studying in Rome (1804–11 and again later), where his work was influenced ...
(übâr´ rôb r´) (KEY) , 1733–1808, French painter and landscape architect. A follower of Piranesi and Pannini, Robert was known as a painter of ...
1918–98, American choreographer and dancer, b. New York City as Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz. Robbins began his career dancing in musical comedy (1937)....