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Goes, Hugo van der

(Encyclopedia) Goes, Hugo van derGoes, Hugo van derh&oomacr;ˈgō vän dĕr g&oomacr;s [key], d.1482, Flemish painter. Probably born in Ghent, he was a member of the painters' guild there in 1467…

Ipswich, city, England

(Encyclopedia) Ipswich, city and district, Suffolk, E England, on the Orwell estuary 12 mi (19 km) from its entry into the North Sea. Ipswich is the…

Limoges

(Encyclopedia) LimogesLimogeslēmôzhˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 136,407), capital of Haute-Vienne dept., W central France, on the Vienne River. It is famous for its ceramics industry, which uses the…

Klein, Yves

(Encyclopedia) Klein, Yves, 1928–62, French painter. With critic Pierre Restany, he was a leader of the avant-garde movement called Nouveau Réalisme (founded 1960). In the 1950s Klein began to work…

Leeds

(Encyclopedia) Leeds, city and metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 445,242), N central England, on the Aire River. It lies between one of England's leading manufacturing regions on the west and south and…

Pepper, Beverly

(Encyclopedia) Pepper, Beverly, American sculptor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived in Italy from the 1950s. Pepper began as a social realist painter but soon turned to sculpture, inspired by the carvings…

Stirling, Sir James Frazer

(Encyclopedia) Stirling, Sir James Frazer, 1924–92, British architect., b. Glasgow, grad. Univ. of Liverpool school of architecture (1950). Settling in London, Stirling worked in partnership (1956–63…

Pietermaritzburg

(Encyclopedia) PietermaritzburgPietermaritzburgpēˌtərmărˈĭtsbûrgˌ [key], city, part and seat of Msunduzi local municipality and capital of KwaZulu-Natal prov., E South Africa, in the foothills of the…

Helsinki

(Encyclopedia) Helsinki Helsinki hĕlˈsĭngkē [key], Swed. Helsingfors, city (2020 pop. 653,835…

Benton, Thomas Hart, American painter

(Encyclopedia) Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889–1975, American regionalist painter, b. Neosho, Mo.; grandnephew of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton and son of Rep. Maecenas E. Benton. In 1906 and 1907 he attended…