1) Durand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Durand, family: see Duran.... 2) Durand, Asher Brown. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Durand, Asher Brown, (dyoorand´) (KEY) , 1796-1886, American painter and engraver, b. near Newark, N.J. He established a reputation by his engravings of Trumbull's... 3) Duran. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Duran, Durand (both: duraN´) (KEY) , or Durante (duraNt´) (KEY) , Jewish family of scholars. Profiat Isaac ben Moshe ha-Levi Duran, 1350-1414, called Efodi, was born... 4) Durand, Charles Auguste Emile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001 ...Durand, Charles Auguste Émile, see Carolus-Duran.... 5) Carolus-Duran. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...(KEY) , 1837-1917, French painter whose original name was Charles Auguste Emile Durand. He was influenced by Courbet and studied in Lille and Paris. In 1861 he won... 6) Elliott, Charles Loring. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...over 700. His principal works include the portraits of Matthew Vassar (Vassar); A. B. Durand (Corcoran Gall.); several governors of New York (City Hall, New York... 7) Durandus, Gulielmus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Durandus, Gulielmus, (guleel´ms dyooran´ds) (KEY) , 1237?-1296, French canon jurist and theologian. Educated at the Univ. of Bologna, he served several 13th-century... 8) impressionism, in painting. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Morisot, and later with Degas, Manet, the critics Duret and Riviere, and the art dealer Durand-Ruel. The painters repudiated academic standards and reacted against... 9) Waziristan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...fastness, the Wazirs and Mahsuds historically resisted British authority. When the Durand Line was established as the border between Afghanistan and British India... 10) botanical garden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...as part of Harvard); Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y. (est. 1910); Highland and Durand-Eastman parks, Rochester, N.Y.; Bartram's Gardens, Philadelphia (founded... |