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Brewer's: Black Art

The art practised by conjurors, wizards, and others, who professed to have dealings with the devil. Black here means diabolical or wicked. Some derive it from nigromancy, a corruption of…

Brewer's: Liberal Arts

Book-learning (Latin, liber); viz., Grammar, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Liberal…

Brewer's: Ligurian Arts

Deception, trickery. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Ligurian RepublicLiguorians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…

Brewer's: Fine Arts

Those arts which chiefly depend on a delicate or fine imagination, as music, painting, poetry, and sculpture. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fine as…

Brewer's: Hermetic Art

The art or science of alchemy; so called from the Chaldean philosopher, Hermes Trismegistus, its hypothetical founder. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Tesserarian Art

The art of gambling. (Latin, tessera, a die.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TesterTerza Rima A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…

Art Garfunkel Biography

Art Garfunkel(Arthur Garfunkel)singer; actorBorn: 11/5/1941Birthplace: Forest Hills, Queens, New York Garfunkel is best known as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel (1962–70), formed with…

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, Wis.Designed in 2001 by Santiago Calatrava photo by Carol M. Highsmith The American Institute of Architects and Harris Interactive selected Milwaukee Art Museum…

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, Minn.Designed in 2005 by Edward Larrabee Barnes photo by Carol M. Highsmith The American Institute of Architects and Harris Interactive selected the Walker Art…

Weisman Art Museum

Minneapolis, Minn. Designed in 1990 by Frank Gehry photo by Carol M. Highsmith The American Institute of Architects and Harris Interactive selected Weisman Art Museum as one of America's…