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A Dada periodical founded by Picabia in Barcelona in 1917; subsequent issues were published in New York, Lausanne, Zurich, and Paris until 1924. The name was meant to recall Stieglitz's short-lived...

(fl. mid-19th century),

French draftsman and lithographer active in the USA and Peru. He lived briefly in the USA, where in 1852 he published a book containing 32 woodcuts depicting ...

(1884–1962)

An American inventor of note and originator of the Erector constructional toy in 1913, Gilbert originally trained at Yale Medical School before going on to found the Mysto Manufacturing...

(b Antwerp, 31 Mar. 1739; d Brussels, 30 Mar. 1822).

Flemish painter and writer on art, active mainly in Antwerp (until 1781) and then Brussels. In 1764–8 he lived in Rome, where he was strongly...

(b Leerdam, 11 Jan 1901; d Wassenaar, 19 Dec 1991).

Dutch glass designer. He worked at the royal glass factory in Leerdam (see Leerdam glass), where his father was head ...

(b Bebek, Turkey, 5 Sept 1855; d New York, 21 March 1926),

architect and architectural historian. Hamlin was the author of the first American textbook survey of Western architecture and ...

(1881–1952)

American collector, writer on art, and painter, born into a wealthy family. His earliest collecting interests were in Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler, but in the 1920s he began buying more...

Glass is said to be à la façon de Venise when it imitates the style of Venetian glass. Such glass was made from the late 16th century in the Netherlands, the Rhineland and by Giacomo Verzelini in...

A term used to describe an elaborate canopy over a bed, heavily draped and culminating in a peaked, tent-like structure.