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Fuga, Ferdinando

(Encyclopedia) Fuga, FerdinandoFuga, Ferdinandofārdēnänˈdō f&oomacr;ˈgä [key], 1699–1781, Italian architect. Fuga is best known for his rebuilding of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. He served as…

Flores, island, Azores

(Encyclopedia) Flores Flores flôˈrĭz, Port. flôˈrəsh [key], island , 58 sq mi (150 sq…

Fort Pickens

(Encyclopedia) Fort Pickens, fortification on the western end of Santa Rosa Island at the entrance to Pensacola Bay, NW Fla. When Florida joined the Confederacy in Jan., 1861, Fort Barrancas on the…

Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da

(Encyclopedia) Cortona, Pietro Berrettini daCortona, Pietro Berrettini dapyāˈtrō bār-rĕt-tēˈnē dä kōrtôˈnä [key], 1596–1669, Italian baroque painter and architect, b. Cortona. The Barberini family…

Benedetto da Majano

(Encyclopedia) Benedetto da MajanoBenedetto da Majanobānādĕtˈtō dä mäyäˈnō [key], 1442–97. Italian sculptor and architect of the Florentine school. His pulpits, altarpieces, and other church…

New Mexico, University of

(Encyclopedia) New Mexico, University of, main campus at Albuquerque; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1889, opened 1892. It maintains graduate centers at Los Alamos and Santa Fe and…

Cimarron

(Encyclopedia) CimarronCimarronsĭmˈərŏnˌ [key], river, 698 mi (1,123 km) long, rising in NE N.Mex., and flowing generally E to the Arkansas River, W of Tulsa, Okla. It follows the direct route of the…

Écija

(Encyclopedia) Écija Écija āˈthēhä [key], city, Seville prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on a hill overlooking…

Giunta Pisano

(Encyclopedia) Giunta PisanoGiunta Pisanoj&oomacr;nˈtä pēzäˈnō [key], fl. 1236–1255, Italian painter of Pisa. Among his signed works are three very large depictions of the Crucifixion executed…

Bolsena

(Encyclopedia) Bolsena Bolsena bōlsĕˈnä [key], town, Latium, central Italy, on picturesque Lake Bolsena, near the…