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Sanmicheli, Michele

(Encyclopedia) Sanmicheli, MicheleSanmicheli, Michelemēkĕˈlā sänmēkĕˈlē [key], c.1484–1559, Italian architect and engineer. He was influenced by Bramante's works in Rome, and after 1527 worked…

Verrocchio, Andrea del

(Encyclopedia) Verrocchio, Andrea delVerrocchio, Andrea deländrĕˈä dĕl vār-rôkˈkyō [key], 1435–88, Florentine sculptor and painter, whose real name was Andrea di Michele di Francesco di Cioni. He was…

Giambono, Michele

(Encyclopedia) Giambono, MicheleGiambono, Michelemēkĕˈlā jämbōˈnō [key], fl.1420–62, Venetian mosaicist and painter, whose original name was Michele Giovanni Boni. One of the last exponents of the…

Spinello di Luca Spinelli

(Encyclopedia) Spinello di Luca SpinelliSpinello di Luca Spinellispēnĕlˈlō dē l&oomacr;ˈkä spēnĕlˈlē [key], c.1346–1410, Italian painter, usually called Spinello Aretino from his birthplace,…

Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, Fra

(Encyclopedia) Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, FraBartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, Frafrä bärtōlōmĕˈō dē päˈgōlō dĕl fätˌtōrēˈnō [key], 1475–1517, Italian painter, also called Baccio della…

Rossellino, Antonio

(Encyclopedia) Rossellino, AntonioRossellino, Antonioäntôˈnyō rōs-sĕl-lēˈnō [key], 1427–c.1478, Florentine sculptor, whose name was Antonio di Matteo di Domenico Gambarelli. He was the youngest and…

Lea Michele

Name at birth: Lea Michele SarfatiLea Michele played the tightly-wound super-student Rachel Berry in the TV series Glee. By the time that series started in 2009, Lea Michele was already a veteran of…

Brewer's: Michel

or Cousin Michael. A German. Michel means a dolt; thus the French call a fool who allows himself to be taken in by thimble-rigs and card tricks mikel. In Old French the word mice occurs,…

Brewer's: Margherit'a di Valois

married Henri the Béarnais, afterwards Henri IV. of France. During the wedding soleminites, Catherine de Medicis devised the massacre of the French Protestants, and Margherita was at a…

Brewer's: Countess di Civillari

(The). A bog, sewer, cesspool, into which falls the filth of a city. Two wags promised Simon da Villa an introduction to the Countess di Civillari, and tossed him, in his scarlet gown,…