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71Tintoretto — /tin teuh ret oh/; It. /teen taw rddet taw/, n. Il /eel/, (Jacopo Robusti), 1518 94, Venetian painter. * * * orig. Jacopo Robusti born с 1518, Venice, Republic of Venice died May 31, 1594, Venice Italian painter. His father was a silk dyer… …
72whimsy — /hwim zee, wim /, n., pl. whimsies. 1. capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression: a play with lots of whimsy. 2. an odd or fanciful notion. 3. anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or… …
73Cowley, Abraham — born 1618, London died July 28, 1667, Chertsey, Eng. British poet and essayist. He was a fellow at the University of Cambridge but was ejected for his political opinions during the English Civil Wars; he joined the queen s court, performing… …
74South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
75Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
76Fathers of the Church — • The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ: Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Fathers of the Church …
77Maarten van Heemskerck — Marten van Heemskerck Self portrait detail from his painting of the Colosseum. Birth name Maerten Jacobsz Born …
78Mandeville, John — (fl. 1357) Although most people in the 14th and 15th centuries who were familiar with MARCO POLO’s Travels (Le divisament dou Monde, 1299) decried his account as fantastic and as a pack of lies, the much more imaginary and fanciful Travels by… …
79imaginary — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fancied, illusory, fanciful, unreal, invented, visionary, shadowy, chimerical, dreamy, dreamlike, hypothetical, theoretical, delusive, deceptive, imagined, hallucinatory, ideal, notional, whimsical, fabulous,… …
80notional — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. imaginary abstract, conceptual, visionary, dreamed, fanciful. 2. whimsical fanciful, capricious, frivolous. ANT.: 1. real, proven, tangible, sensory. 2. practical, down to earth II (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
