2) children's book illustration. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Beginnings of a GenreAmong the first picture books produced in the West and intended for children is Comenius's Orbis Pictus, a primerlike text written in Latin about...
3) English art and architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...English art and architecture, the distinctive national art and architecture that art may be said to have evolved in the 12th cent. with the Norman style. Building...
4) Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Italian Republic, republic (1995 est. pop. 58,262,000), 116,303 sq mi (301,225 sq km), S Europe. It borders on France in the northwest, the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian...