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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Language; Encyclopedias
Great English landscape painter, born probably in London, the son of a hairdresser; had little education, and grew up illiterate, as he remained all his days; took to art from his ...
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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Great French "persifleur" and "Coryphaeus of Deism," born in Paris, son of a lawyer; trained to scoff at religion from his boyhood, and began his literary career as a satirist and ...
Virgil
Language; Encyclopedias
Great Latin poet, born near Mantua, author in succession of the "Eclogues," the "Georgics," and the "Aeneid"; studied at Cremona and Milan, and at 16 was sent to Rome to study ...
Sir Anthony Vandyck
Language; Encyclopedias
Great portrait-painter, born in Antwerp; studied under Rubens, whose favourite pupil he was; visited Italy, and devoted himself to the study of the great masters; on his return to ...
Diego de Silva Velasquez
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Greatest of Spanish painters, born at Seville, of Portuguese family; studied under Francisco Herrera, who taught him to teach himself, so that but for the hint he was a ...
Zosimus
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Greek historian; wrote a history of the Roman emperors from the time of Augustus to the year 410, and ascribed the decline of the empire to the decay of paganism (408-450).
Zeno
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Greek philosopher of the Eleatic school, and who flourished in 500 B.C.; was the founder of the dialectic so successfully adopted by Socrates, which argues for a particular truth ...
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