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- Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...at [[Bessines-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suz...
8: ... haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangove...
12: ...rth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of ...
22: ...jpg|thumb|200px|left|''The Hangover''. [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]].]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Printmaking (6788 bytes)
1: ...s created indirectly, through the transfer of ink from the surface upon which the work was originally ...
3: ...at stones, or a porous fabric mesh stretched in a frame. Small prints can even be made using the surfa...
18: [[Helen Frakenthaler]],
23: [[Frans Masereel]],
35: ...l and [[contour]]s. [[line (art)|Lines]] can vary from smooth to sketchy. - Pope Fabian (2703 bytes)
6: ...arbonne|Paul]] to [[Narbonne]], [[Saturnin]] to [[Toulouse]], [[Denis]] to [[Paris]], [[Austromoine]] to [[C... - Pope Innocent I (2364 bytes)
3: ...deities; the pope happened, however, to be absent from the city on a mission to [[Flavius Augustus Hon...
5: ...f the synod of the province of [[proconsular]] [[Africa]] held in [[Carthage]] in [[416]], which had b... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
1: ''This article refers to the former French president, Charles de Gaulle. For the [[Paris...
10: | [[President of France]]
13: | From [[January 8]], [[1959]]<br> to [[April 28]], [[...
40: ...|French military]] leader and statesman. ({{audio|fr-Charles_de_Gaulle.ogg|pronunciation of his name}}...
42: ...ism]], which left a major influence in subsequent French politics. - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...istery (Florence)|Baptistery]] gates in [[1402]], from which Ghiberti emerged victorious over [[Filipp...
10: ...gradual maturation is visible. It can be followed from a [[Gothic]] stiffness of attitude and draping ...
14: ...m life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
23: ...]]. At the time of its creation, it was the first free-standing [[nude]] statue since ancient times. C... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against ...
7: ...rdano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[...
9: ...t [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[...
13: ...ernicus|Copernicanism]] and forced to leave for [[France]].
15: In [[1579]] he arrived in [[Toulouse]], where he briefly had a teaching position. At t... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...ember 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential [[France|French]] [[Renaissance]] writer, generally consider...
6: ...Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised...
8: ...g at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de...
16: ...ce, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry o...
18: ...one]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, par... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
1: {{French Revolution}}
2: ...]]'', and eclipses both subsequent revolutions in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the ...
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
21: ...tial creditors of the confidence and stability of France's finances. - Medieval Inquisition (8204 bytes)
3: ...lar [[Catharism]] and [[Waldensians]] in southern France and northern Italy.
11: ...y rested with local officials based on guidelines from the Pope, but there was no central top-down aut...
13: ...rowing [[Cathars|Catharist]] heresy in southern [[France]]. It is called "episcopal" because it was ad...
15: ...ing first-person speech by medieval peasants come from papal inquisition records.
27: ...d heretics. Blood relationship did not exempt one from the duty to testify against the accused. Senten... - Canal (2513 bytes)
1: ...90px|The [[Canal du Midi]]<br> in [[Toulouse]], [[France]]]]
9: ...decay. A movement that began in Great Britain and France to use the picturesque early industrial canal... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
28: ...ch has come to delineate the interior of the city from the surrounding suburbs. This has given rise to...
33: ...stern & Atlantic Railroad]], for lines connecting from [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Chattanoo...
38: ... of the economy away from agriculture and a shift from the "Old South" attitudes of slavery and rebell...
41: ... commuted in 1915, riots broke out in Atlanta and Frank was [[lynching|lynched]].
43: ...ters for Disease Control]] was founded in Atlanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices an... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ... he drove the western emperor [[Valentinian III]] from his capital at [[Ravenna]] in [[452]].
9: ...n or proto-[[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] nomad tribes from north-eastern [[China]] and [[Central Asia]]. T...
14: ... steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Danube river to the Baltic Sea]]
15: ...ns. The Huns, satisfied with the treaty, decamped from the empire and departed into the interior of th...
17: ...ations and that the [[bishop]] of Margus (not far from modern Belgrade) had crossed the Danube to rans... - Roman road (3913 bytes)
4: ...e that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in c...
14: ===[[France]]===
15: ...e Via Domitia, to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] across [[Toulouse]] and [[Bordeaux]],
16: * [[Via Domitia]] ([[118 BC]]), from [[Nimes]] to the [[Pyrenees]], where it joins t...
20: * [[Via Aemilia]], from [[Rimini|Ariminum]] to [[Piacenza]] - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
2: ...side of [[Europe]]. Both [[knight]]s and peasants from many different nations of [[western Europe]], w...
5: ...ral, and of the First Crusade in particular, stem from events earlier in the [[Middle Ages]]. The brea...
7: ...Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Spain from [[Muslim]] raids.
12: ... were politically and, to some extent, culturally fragmented at the time of the First Crusade, which c...
16: ...rusalem to the Seljuks in 1076, but recaptured it from the Ortoqids in 1098 while the crusaders were o... - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
11: ...ng friendship, would join the company later. This friendship is amply documented in the large collecti...
18: ... of [[color]], favoring dark tones, set him apart from his teacher.
22:
27: ...to enhance the brilliance of each. A lovely quote from one of his letters: "I want to use colors that ...
30: ... left ear, which he gave to a startled prostitute friend. Gauguin left in December 1888. - Drawing (17083 bytes)
2: ...of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. These marks m...
5: ...ing'') on previous layers so that light reflected from below the surface comes through, or color strok...
29: ...variety of different sizes and qualities, ranging from newspaper grade for practice up to high quality...
35: ...seful are tracing paper, a circle compass, ruler, frisket film, fixative, and drafting tape. Certain '...
37: ...ve models, or a landscape or other scene. Drawing from a picture can be easier in some respects as the... - Lithography (5288 bytes)
6: Lithography, from the Greek words for "stone" and "to write," was...
22: ...s artists like Francisco Goya and later, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, used lithography to great effect, creati...
37: ...t the time, the most complete range of line color from white to black.
39: ...st's lithographs" that sparked a flood of (mostly French) artists who dabbled in lithography, includin... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
19: * [[January 7]] - [[Alferd Pecker]] is released from prison after serving 18 years for [[Cannibalism...
38: ...]] after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from the First National Bank in [[Austin, Texas]].
72: * [[January 16]] - [[Frank Zamboni]], American inventor (d. [[1988]])
74: * [[January 27]] - [[Willy Fritsch]], actor (d. [[1973]])
113: * [[July 31]] - [[Jean Dubuffet]], French painter (d. [[1985]])
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