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- List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
179: *[[Hieronymus Bosch]] (ca.[[1460]] - [[1518]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("...
18: ...his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love...
29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
37: ...rentice") and 100 for Salai (named "servant"). In 1518 Salai left Leonardo and returned to Milan, where ...
45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
6: ... of his life yet to accomplish, at his eminence's pleasure. Nor was even this miserable pittance regul...
8: ...iosto to accompany him. The poet excused himself, pleading ill health, his love of study, the care of ...
10: ... of one of these hurried journeys brought on a complaint from which he never recovered, and on his sec...
12: ...overnment satisfied both the sovereign and the people given over to his care; indeed, there is a story...
14: In [[1508]] his play ''Cassaria'' appeared, and the next year ''I Su... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
7: ... father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in order to becom...
12: ...nfluential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as...
17: ...left|[[Woodcut]] by [[Ambrosius Holbein]] for a [[1518]] edition of ''Utopia.'' The traveler Raphael Hy...
19: ... (Indeed, the title of Erasmus's book is partly a play on More's name, the word ''folly'' being ''mori... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...rtugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea explorers|sea explorer]] who sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first ...
15: ...lso told Magellan that he would have no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], ...
17: ==Plans for [[circumnavigation]]==
22: ...h America, which he thought to be the [[Rio de la Plata]], to the Pacific Ocean, forming a large bay-l...
24: ... 22]], [[1518]], King Charles approved Magellan's plan and granted him generous funds. Under the contr... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...er-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new lands to the we...
15: ...rpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia a...
22: ...gods and Christ (to whom Quetzalcoatl was often implicitly compared).
24: ... seen the results of this sort of plunder and had plans to build a working empire of his own. He order...
29: ..., [[La Malinche]] relayed a rumor that the locals planned to murder the Spaniards in their sleep. Alth... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...word ''Sikh'', which means a strong and able disciple. The core beliefs of Sikhism are belief in one ...
4: ... certain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond...
10: ...e True Name, although manifest in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, th...
14: ...d the cycle of [[reincarnation]] by living a disciplined life – that is, by moderating egoism an...
22: ...period that Nanak met [[Kabir]] ([[1441]]–[[1518]]), a saint revered by both Hindus and Muslims. ... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...gs inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]], [[...
14: ...f the [[German language]] and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]...
26: ... to monastic life, the effort to do good works to please [[God]] and to serve others through prayer fo... - Duffy Lewis (1516 bytes)
1: ...was a [[left fielder]] and left-handed batter who played [[Major League Baseball]] for the [[Boston Re...
5: ...e (baseball)|doubles]], 68 [[triple (baseball)|triples]], and 113 [[stolen base]]s in 1459 games.
9: ...k. Duffy Lewis, Boston's first star left fielder, played the steep 10-foot embankment so well, it beca... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ssful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also used a native woman, [[...
6: ...cal trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...es in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
16: ... a pale, sickly child by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]....
18: ...al career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a...
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