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80 matches to Manchester School
Notre-Dame. 12-13C School of early polyphonic music. Léonin.
Novgorod School. 12-16C. Russian icon and mural painting.
Paris School. 1900-30. Bohemian golden age of arts in Montparnasse.
Parnassians. 1867-99. French detached anti-Romantic poetry school. Leconte de Lisle. Sully-Prudhomme. Verlaine. Gautier. Baudelaire.
Pisano, Nicola. 1220-84. Founded school of sculpture at Pisa. Influenced Renaissance. Pisa Baptistery pulpit 1255-60.
Pont-Aven. 1886-88. School of Synthesism led by Gauguin.
Ptolemy. c140. Alexandrian. First cartographer. Promoted Hipparchus’ geocentric theory of solar system. Copernicus. Columbus studied his Geography.
Pythagoras. c582-500BC. Greek philosopher: numbers are key to understanding the universe. Founded first school of higher learning at Crotona, Italy.
Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.
Renaissance Art. 14-15C. Approaches ideal depiction of nature. Perspective, proportion, sfumato. Florentine. Venetian.
Rhodes. <1000BC Minoan. Dorian. 5C BC Delian League. 43BC Rome alliance. 653 Saracen. 1309 Knights of St John. 1522 Turks. 1912 Italy. 1947 Greece. c1C BC School of rhetoric.
Scarlatti, Alessandro. 1660-1725. Italian composer of oratorios and operas. Neapolitan School. Influenced classical harmony.
Scopes Trial. 1925. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee high school. Bryan. Darrow.
Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.
Sheridan, Richard. 1751-1816. British comedy dramatist: School for Scandal 1777.
Soweto. 1976 Violent riots in Black South Africa township over compulsory Afrikaans in schools. 236-600 dead.
Spanish Riding School. 16C. Vienna. Lippizaner stallions.
Sullivan, Louis. 1856-1924. US architect. Skyscrapers. Carsonn Pirie Scott Store, Chicago 1899-1904.
Sunday School. 1580 Milan. 1780 England. 1786 Virginia. Raikes.
Suprematism. 20C. Russian school of geometric abstract art.
Terman, Lewis. 1877-1956. Introduced IQ tests to US school system.
Tintoretto. c1518-94. Venetian Mannerist painter. Sought colors of Titian with drawing of Michelangelo. Last Supper 1547. Susanna Bathing c1550.
Titian. c1489-1576. Venetian painter of dynamic composition and brilliant color. Assumption of Virgin 1518. Charles V 1548. Rape of Europa 1562. Piéta 1576.
Tubman, William. 1895-1971. Liberia. President 1941-. Women’s and native suffrage. School system.