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80 matches to Manchester School
Liberalism, Economic. 19C. Striving for personal profits and liberty. Manchester School. Cobden.
Manchester School. 19C British free-trade movement. Cobden.
Bridgewater Canal. 1761. Brindley. First British canal. Brought coal to Manchester stimulating industrialization.
Libraries. 1700BC Chaldean. 540BC Athens. 284BC Alexandria. 167 Rome. 355 Constantinople. 1446 Vatican. 1520 Paris. 1757 British Museum. 1598 Oxford Bodleian. 1653 Manchester, First free public. 1800 US Library of Congress.
Peterloo Massacre. 1819. Peaceful Manchester demonstration for parliamentary reform suppressed by cavalry. 500 casualties. Ultra tories limit freedom of press, assembly.
Academia Palatina. 9C school founded by Charlemagne.
Academy. c387BC-529. Greek school founded by Plato dedicated to exploration of science and philosophical truth. Closed by Justinian.
Alexandrian School. 2C. First Christian school of higher learning.
Arcadian. Venetian paintings with Greek gods in Italian dress.
Arius. c256-336. Alexandrian advocate of Arianism. Council of Nicaea.
Ashcan. 20C US school of modern art.
Avignon School. 14-15C. Style of painting influenced by Sienese and Flemish painters during papal residence.
Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.
Bérulle, Cardinal Pierre. 1575-1629. Founder of Oratory. ‘French’ school of spiritual thought. Congregation of priests...Lazarites. Congregationalists.
Borromeo, St. Charles. 1538-84. Milan Cardinal. First Sunday school, 1580.
Burgundian. Dominant European musical school in 15C. Dufay.
Canaletto. 1697-1768. Venetian painter of Venice scenes.
Canova, Antonio. 1757-1822. Venetian graceful Neoclassical sculptor. Tomb of Clement XIII. Orpheus 1779. Daedalus 1779. 3 Graces 1815.
Caravaggist School of Painting. Themes of courtesan, cheaters. e.g. George de la Tour.
Che. 15C school of Ming painters in 12-13C style.
Chicago School. 19C. US architectural style. Skyscrapers. Wright.
Colet, John. 1467-1519. English theologian. Founded St. Paul’s School, 1509.
Corot, Camille. 1796-1875. French painter, forerunner of Barbizon school of Art. Narni Bridge 1827.
Cyrenaics. 4C BC. Greek school of philosophy. Pleasure is the highest good. Epicureanism.
De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.