Raphael was born the son of Giovanni Santi and Màgia di Battista Ciarla, who died in 1491. His father was a poet and a painter for the court of Mantua, and at the time of Raphael's birth, he was the head of a well known studio in Urbino. Giovanni instructed his son in painting and introduced him to the humanist court of Urbino, which at the end of the 15th century, was one of the most active cultural centres in Italy under the rule of Federico da Montefeltro, who had died seven months before Raphael's birth. There, Raphael could have encoun ...

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Weldon was the second child of the journalist and industrial chemist, Walter Weldon, and his wife Anne Cotton. Medicine was his intended career and he spent the academic year 1876/7 at University College London. Among his teachers were the zoologist E. Ray Lankester and the mathematician O. Henrici. In the following year he transferred to King's College London and then to St John's College, Cambridge in 1878. Weldon studied with the morphologist Francis Balfour who influenced him greatly; Weldon gave up his plans for a career in medic ...

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Raphael or Raffaello (Urbino, Italy, April 6, 1483–Rome, April 6, 1520) was a master painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and softness of his paintings. He was also called Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello de Urbino or Rafael Sanzio de Urbino. Raphael - Biography. Raphael was born the son of Giovanni Santi and Màgia di Battista Ciarla, who died in 1491. His father was a poet and a painter for the cour ...

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Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (15 March 1860 — 13 April 1906) was an English evolutionary zoologist and biometrician. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon - Biography. Weldon was the second child of the journalist and industrial chemist, Walter Weldon, and his wife Anne Cotton. Medicine was his intended career and he spent the academic year 1876/7 at University College London. Among his teachers were the zoologist E. Ray Lankester and the mathematician O. Henrici. In the following year he transferred to King ...

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Israel Azriel Hildesheimer was a German rabbi, and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering "Moderniser" of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and is sometimes regarded as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Azriel Hildesheimer - Biography. Hildesheimer was born in Hildesheim, a small town near Hanover, Germany (Some believe he was born in Halberstadt) May 20, 1820; he was the son of Rabbi Löb Glee Hildesheimer. He attended the "Hasharat Zwi" school in Halberstadt, and, from age sevente ...

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• Azriel Hildesheimer - Modernisation within Orthodoxy
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Comparison with Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Orthodox Opposition
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Writings

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St. Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the Departed Bishop of Fayoum and Giza, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor", is a well-known modern-day Coptic Orthodox saint. Abraam Bishop of Fayoum - Biography. The child Paul (Boulos) Gabriel was born in 1545 A.M. (1829 A.D.) in Calad, a village in Upper Egypt. His parents were righteous and loved God. They sent him to the Church School. His teacher Raphael took care of him, taught him reading, writing, arithmetic, the Holy Scriptures and psalms, ecclesiastic hymns and ps ...

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Professor Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. His poems are known for the insightful way in which they explore loss and desolation. Raised in Stisted near Braintree in Essex, he was educated at Radley College. When he was 16, his mother had a riding accident and spent the next ten years in and out of a coma before she died. During this time, he read English at University College, Oxford and studied the poetry of Edward Thomas for his MLitt. degree. Motion has said that he tried to ...

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Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American Revolution. Born in Springfield, Pennsylvania (now Swarthmore) as the tenth child of an innkeeper. Benjamin West was an autodidact. While excelling at the arts, "he had little [formal] education and, even when president of the Royal Academy, could scarcely spell."(Hughes, 70) From 1746 to 1759, West worked in Pennsylvania painting portraits while fostered by the provost of the College ...

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Rabbi Chaim Joseph David ben Isaac Zerachia Azulai (1724, 21 March 1807), commonly known as the Chida (by the acronym of his name), was a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings. Chaim Joseph David Azulai - Biography. He was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education from some local prominent scholars, including Chaim ibn Attar (the Or ha-Chaim). At an early age he showed proficiency in Talmud, Kabbalah and Jewish histor ...

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Urbino is a city in the Marche in Italy, southwest of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site with a great cultural history during the Renaissance as the seat of Federico da Montefeltro. It has retained some of its picturesque medieval aspect on steep sloping ground, though tourists' carparks occupy the former fields below. Urbino is home to the University of Urbino, founded in 1564, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino (see below). Its great urbanistic feature is the Palazzo Ducale, rebuilt by Luciano Laurana, an architect ...

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• Urbino - Archbishops of Urbino
• Urbino - Majolica
• Urbino - Luciano Laurana and the Palazzo Ducale
• Urbino - Urbino as a city of art

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Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (gnostic). "Apelles" was also a pseudonym used by the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots. Apelles (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (N.H. 35.36.79-97 and passim) rated him first of all who preceded him and who came after. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had pr ...

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Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore, Gualfonda, Florence, 1487 - Florence, 1531) was a painter of the Italian Renaissance. Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training. This celebrated painter of the Florentine school was born in either 1486 or 1487 one of four children to Agnolo, a tailor (sarto). Since 1677 some have attributed the surname Vannucchi with little documentation. By 1494 Andrea apprenticed to a goldsmith, and then to a skillful woodcarver and in ...

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• Andrea del Sarto - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence
• Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France
• Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence
• Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies
• Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life
• Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy
• Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák (pronounced "Dvor-zhack"-listen ▶ (help·info)) (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music. Antonín Dvořák - Biography. Dvořák was born in Nelahozeves near Prague (today the Czech Republic) where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's only Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and slowly developed himself as an accomplished violinist and violist. Through ...

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• Antonín Dvořák - Dvořák's Symphonies

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In various religions, Gabriel (גַּבְרִיאֵל, Standard Hebrew Gavriʼel, Latin Gabrielus, Tiberian Hebrew Gaḇrîʼēl, Arabic جبريل Ǧabrīl Jibrael) is an angel who serves as a messenger from God. He appears first in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. The name Gabriel can mean "man of God", "hero of God", or "God has shown himself mighty." According to the Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an archangel who serves as a messenger from God. He is sometimes regarded as t ...

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William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Though largely unrecognised during his lifetime, today Blake's work is almost universally considered that of a genius. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic opus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, in particular his engravings: "[Blake] is far and away ...

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• William Blake - The Royal Academy
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Daniel Lapin is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the founder of Toward Tradition,the Pacific Jewish Center, the Commonwealth Loan Company and the Cascadia Business Institute. Daniel Lapin - Background. Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. His father, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Lapin, a nephew of Rabbi Elya Lopian 1872-1970, served as a prominent and outspoken Orthodox rabbi in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and eventually established an Orthodox synagogue (Am EchadIncluding:

• Daniel Lapin - Background
• Daniel Lapin - Pacific Jewish Center
• Daniel Lapin - Radio show in Seattle
• Daniel Lapin - Conservative Judeo-Christian values vs. liberalism
• Daniel Lapin - Support for conservative Christians
• Daniel Lapin - Defense of a Holocaust Denier
• Daniel Lapin - Judaism is a non-proselytizing religion
• Daniel Lapin - Opposition to Jewish liberalism
• Daniel Lapin - Allies
• Daniel Lapin - Wealth
• Daniel Lapin - Relationship with Jack Abramoff
• Daniel Lapin - Fake awards for Jack Abramoff
• Daniel Lapin - Money laundering
• Daniel Lapin - Writings

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Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the only non episcopal country house, in England, to hold the title "palace". The Palace, one of England's greatest houses in every sense of the word, was built between 1705 and circa 1722. Its construction was originally intended to be a gift to the 1st Duke of Marlborough from a grateful nation in return for military triumph against the French. However, it soon became the subject of political infighting which led to Marlborough ...

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• Blenheim Palace - Funding the construction
• Blenheim Palace - Design and architecture
• Blenheim Palace - Interior
• Blenheim Palace - The Park and gardens
• Blenheim Palace - Failing fortunes
• Blenheim Palace - The 9th Duke of Marlborough
• Blenheim Palace - Blenheim today
• Blenheim Palace - Blenheim on film
• Blenheim Palace - Footnotes

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598, Naples – November 28, 1680, Rome) was a towering baroque artist in 17th century Baroque Rome, where he is known mainly for his often overlapping skills as a sculptor and architect. He was also a painter, draftsman, designer of stage sets, fireworks displays, and funeral trappings. Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Early Works. Bernini was born in Naples to a Florentine family and accompanied his father Pietro Bernini, a capable Mannerist sculp ...

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• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Fountains in Rome
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bernini's Marble Portraiture
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Other works
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - List of Works
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Sculpture
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Paintings
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Charles Sanders Santiago Peirce (pronounced purse), (September 10, 1839, Cambridge, Massachusetts – April 19, 1914, Milford, Pennsylvania) was an American polymath. Although educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, he is now mostly seen as a philosopher. He is the greatest American builder of architectonic systems, and his admirers deem him the most important systemat ...

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• Charles Peirce - Pragmatism
• Charles Peirce - Scholastic realism
• Charles Peirce - Formal perspective
• Charles Peirce - Dynamics of representation
• Charles Peirce - Normative sciences
• Charles Peirce - Parallels with Leibniz
• Charles Peirce - Bibliography
• Charles Peirce - Primary literature
• Charles Peirce - Secondary literature

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