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Overview page. Subjects: Warfare and Defence — Maritime History.
Of a ship, to sink at sea, generally understood to be by the flooding of its hull either through springing a leak or through striking a rock. Other causes of a ship sinking, such as...
Poitevin, Alphonse Louis
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Photography and Photographs; Architecture; 19th-Century Art. 239 words.
(b Conflans-sur-Anille, Sarthe, ?1819; d Conflans-sur-Anille, March 4, 1882).
French photographer, engineer and chemist. He began photographic research in 1842 while studying...
Nizzoli, Marcello
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture; Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Photography and Photographs; 20th-Century Art. 80 words.
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1887, in Boretto; died 1969, in Nervi.
Collage artist, photomontage artist.
Marcello Nizzoli studied architecture in Parma, then...
Gasparini, Paolo
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Photography and Photographs; Architecture; Latin American and Caribbean Art; 20th-Century Art. 176 words.
(b Gorizia, 1934).
Venezuelan photographer of Italian birth. He moved to Venezuela in 1954, working as a photographer of architecture. At the same time he depicted the...
Lagos
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Landscape Art and Architecture; Photography and Photographs; African Art (Sub-Saharan). 1302 words.
[Yoruba Eko]
Capital city of Nigeria, on the Gulf of Guinea. Aerial photography reveals a mosaic of land use patterns: large traditional compound spaces in such neighbourhoods...
