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71NOTRE DAME — celebrated metropolitan church of Paris, situated on the Ile de la Cité ; it was begun to be erected in 1163 on the site of a prior Merovingian cathedral, which itself had superseded a pagan temple on the spot, and completed, at least the… …
72OVERBECK, FRIEDRICH — celebrated German painter, born at Lübeck; was head of the new Romantic or Pre Raphaelite school of German art; had devoted himself to religious subjects, abjured Lutheranism, and joined the Roman Catholic Church; is famed for his frescoes… …
73OWEN, SIR RICHARD — celebrated English naturalist and comparative anatomist, born in Lancaster; wrote extensively, especially on comparative anatomy and physiology, in which, as in everything that occupied him, he was an enthusiastic worker, being a disciple of… …
74PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DE — celebrated composer of sacred music, surnamed the Prince of Music, born at Palestrina; resided chiefly at Rome, where he wrought a revolution in church music, produced a number of masses which at once raised him to the foremost rank among… …
75PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD — celebrated Arctic explorer, born at Bath; visited the Arctic Seas under Ross in 1818, conducted a second expedition himself in 1819 20, a third in 1821 23, a fourth in 1824 26 with unequal success, and a fifth in 1827 in quest of the North… …
76PETÖFI, SANDOR — celebrated Magyar poet and patriot, born in the county of Pesth, of poor parents; first announced himself as a poet in 1844; wrote a number of war songs; fought in the cause of the revolution of 1848, and fell in the battle of Schässburg; his… …
77PLUTARCH — celebrated Greek biographer and moralist, born at Chæronea, in Boeotia; studied at Athens; paid frequent visits to Rome, and formed friendships with some of its distinguished citizens; spent his later years at his native place, and held a… …
78PYTHIAN GAMES — celebrated from very early times till the 4th century A.D. every four years, near Delphi, in honour of Apollo, who was said to have instituted them to commemorate his victory over the Python; originally were contests in singing only, but after …
79QUINTILIAN, MARCUS FABIUS — celebrated Latin rhetorician, born in Spain; went to Rome in the train of Galba, and began to practise at the bar, but achieved his fame more as teacher in rhetoric than a practitioner at the bar, a function he discharged with brilliant… …
80RAPHAEL, SANTI — celebrated painter, sculptor, and architect, born at Urbino, son of a painter; studied under Perugino for several years, visited Florence in 1504, and chiefly lived there till 1508, when he was called to Rome by Pope Julius II., where he spent …
