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87 matches to Paul
Abstract Art. 20C. Color, line and form without subject. Begun by Cezanne.
Baroque Art. 1600-1750. Orig in Italy, spread across W. Europe. Architecture: Ornate style characterized by stucco, frescoes, rood screens. Vanbrugh. Bernini’s Barberini Palace. Music: Counterpoint vs Renaissance polyphony. Opera, cantata. Bach. Monteverdi. Vivaldi. Painting: Dynamic, emotional. Caravaggio. Reni. Rubens.Van Dyck. Rococo.
Barras, Paul. 1755-1829. French Directory founder. Led Army of Interior.
Bellaud. 1532-88. Provencale truculent poet who inspired Marat, Rabelais and Petrarch.
Bernardin de St. Pierre, Jacques. 1737-1814. French writer. Propagated JJ Rousseau’s back to nature philosophy. Paul et Virginie 1788.
Bethmann-Hollweg. 1856-1921. German Chancellor, 1909-17. Tried to mediate before WWI. Overthrown by Hindenburg and Ludendorf.
Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider). 1911-14. Organization of Abstract Expressionist artists. Kandinsky. Klee.
Brill, Paul. 1554-1626. Flemish Mannerist landscape painter.
Britten, Benjamin. 1913-76. Influential English composer of operas and symphonies. Paul Bunyan 1941. Billy Budd 1951. War Requiem 1962. Death in Venice 1973.
Broca, Paul. 1824-80. French pathologist; discovered brain’s speech center.
Bunyan, Paul. Legendary US giant lumberjack with blue ox Babe.
Cezanne, Paul. 1839-1906. French Post-Impressionist painter. Illusion of depth by color. Card Players 1892.
Claudel, Paul. 1868-1955. French writer: Satin Slipper 1924.
Colet, John. 1467-1519. English theologian. Founded St. Paul’s School, 1509.
Corday, Charlotte. 1768-93. Killed Marat July 13, 1793.
Cordeliers. 1790-4. French moderate revolutionaries. Met at convent. Petitioned vs king. Most executed. Marat.
Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.
Delaroche, Paul. 1797-1859. French portrait and historical painter. Death of Queen Elizabeth. Children of Edward.
Dirac, Paul. 1902-84. English quantum physicist.
Donne, John. 1572-1631. English metaphysicist. Dean of St. Paul’s 1621-31. Elegies, Songs, Sonnets, Devotions. “No man is an island.”
Doumer, Paul. 1857-1932. French President 1931-. Assassinated.
Dukas, Paul. 1865-1935. French composer. Ariane, Barbe-Bleue. Sorcerer’s Apprentice 1897.
Ehrlich, Paul. 1854-1915. German bacteriologist. Salvarsan syphilis treatment, 1909. Idea of specific drugs as “magic bullets”.
Éluard, Paul. 1895-1952. French surrealist poet.
Existentialism. Philosophy. Existence is concrete. Man has choice. Responsibility, freedom. Anti-conformism. Kierkegaard. Sartre. Heidegger.