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51gamelan — /gam euh lan , leuhn/, n. an Indonesian orchestra consisting of bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and a great variety of percussion instruments. Also, gamelin /gam euh lin/. [1810 20; < Javanese, equiv. to gamel song accompanied by a gamelan +… …
52impressionism — /im presh euh niz euhm/, n. 1. Fine Arts. a. (usually cap.) a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of… …
53pitta — /pit euh/, n. any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests. [1830 40; < Telugu pitta bird] * * * ▪ bird any of about 23 species of exceptionally colourful Old World …
54Inness, George — born May 1, 1825, Newburgh, N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 3, 1894, Bridge of Allen, Stirling, Scot. U.S. landscape painter. He was largely self taught. His early paintings were influenced by the Hudson River school. He spent much time in Europe studying… …
55South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
56Latin American art — Introduction artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present. This article… …
57teichopsia — The jagged, shimmering visual sensation resembling the fortifications of a walled medieval town; the scintillating scotoma of migraine. [G. teichos, wall, + opsis, vision] * * * n. shimmering coloured lights, accompanied by blank spots in the… …
58Diné Bahaneʼ — (Navajo: Story of the People ), the Navajo creation story, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajos, and centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo people. This story forms the basis for the… …
59Messiah Part I — The Annunciation to the Shepherds by Franz Xaver Merz, Windberg Abbey, 1755 Messiah (HWV 56), the English language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, is structured in three parts. This article covers Part I and describes the… …
60Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi — Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi, born in c. 936, became the chief court poet to the Fatimid Caliph Imam, Al Mu izz. Most of his collected poems are in praise of the Fatimids against the claims of the Abbasids and the Umayyads of Spain. He… …
