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121Songye — The Songye people are a tribal group based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). They were founded in the 16th century following an exodus from the neighbouring Shaba area, settling near to the Lualuba River. There are around… …
122art nouveau — /ahrt nooh voh , ahr /; Fr. /annrdd nooh voh /, (often caps.) Fine Arts. a style of fine and applied art current in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized chiefly by curvilinear motifs often derived from natural forms. [1900 05; <… …
123Jupiter — /jooh pi teuhr/, n. 1. Also called Jove. the supreme deity of the ancient Romans: the god of the heavens and of weather. Cf. Zeus. 2. Astron. the planet fifth in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 88,729 mi. (142,796 km), a mean …
124Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …
125Stella, Frank (Philip) — born May 12, 1936, Malden, Mass., U.S. U.S. painter. He moved to New York City after studying history at Princeton University and there began his innovative black paintings (1958–60), incorporating symmetrical series of thin white stripes that… …
126Stella, Frank — ▪ 2002 After keeping a low profile throughout the 1990s, American artist Frank Stella returned to the limelight in a big way, with large public sculptures. In 2001 the 65 year old completed work on The Prince of Homburg, a massive mostly… …
127Beardsley, Aubrey — ▪ English artist in full Aubrey Vincent Beardsley born August 21, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, England died March 16, 1898, Menton, France the leading English illustrator of the 1890s and, after Oscar Wilde (Wilde, Oscar), the outstanding figure in …
128Massim style — type of stylized, curvilinear carving found in the Massim region, one of the major stylistic areas of Papua New Guinea. The Massim region, located in the southeast, includes the Trobriand, D Entrecasteaux, and Woodlark islands; the… …
