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91Stradivari, Antonio — born 1644?, Cremona, Duchy of Milan died Dec. 18, 1737, Cremona Italian musical instrument maker. An apprentice of Nicolò Amati (from с 1666), he established his own business in Cremona, eventually working with his sons Francesco (1671–1743) and… …
92Anselm of Canterbury, Saint — born 1033/34, Aosta, Lombardy died April 21, 1109, possibly at Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day April 21 Founder of Scholasticism. Anselm entered the Benedictine monastery at Bec (in Normandy) in 1057 and became abbot in 1078. In 1077 he wrote… …
93Arnold, Matthew — born Dec. 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, Eng. died April 15, 1888, Liverpool English poet and literary and social critic. Son of the educator Thomas Arnold, he attended Oxford and then worked as an inspector of schools for the rest of his life.… …
94Champlain, Samuel de — born 1567, Brouage, France died Dec. 25, 1635, Quebec, New France French explorer. He made several expeditions to North America before founding Quebec in 1608 with 32 colonists, most of whom did not survive the first winter. He joined with the… …
95Close, Chuck — born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Wash., U.S. U.S. artist. After early Abstract Expressionist experiments, in his first solo exhibition Close showed a series of enormous black and white portraits that he had painstakingly transformed from small… …
96David, Jacques-Louis — born Aug. 30, 1748, Paris, France died Dec. 29, 1825, Brussels French painter. At 18 he entered the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1775 he went to Rome and became a proponent of the Neoclassical style, but also studied the work of… …
97Eakins, Thomas — born July 25, 1844, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died June 25, 1916, Philadelphia U.S. painter. After early training at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1866–70), he spent most of his life in his native Philadelphia. He reinforced his study of the… …
98Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint — born с 330, Arianzus, near Nazianzus, in Cappadocia, Asia Minor died с 389, Arianzus; Eastern feast day January 25 and 30; Western feast day February 2 One of the Church Fathers of Eastern Orthodoxy. He was ordained a priest in Nazianzus in 362.… …
99Homer, Winslow — born Feb. 24, 1836, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Sept. 29, 1910, Prouts Neck, Maine U.S. painter. He served an apprenticeship with a Boston lithographer, then became a freelance illustrator in New York City. He exhibited at the National Academy of… …
100Kant, Immanuel — born April 22, 1724, Königsberg, Prussia died Feb. 12, 1804, Königsberg German philosopher, one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment. The son of a saddler, he studied at the university in Königsberg and taught there as privatdocent… …
