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(Encyclopedia) Vaga, Perino del: see Perino del Vaga. ...

(Encyclopedia) Enzina, Juan del: see Encina, Juan del. ...

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(Encyclopedia) Perino del Vaga pyārēˈnō [key], 1500–1547, Italian mannerist painter, whose real name was Perino or Pierino Buonaccorsi. He worked chiefly in Rome and Genoa. He worked for Raphael in the loggia ...

(Encyclopedia) Del City, city (2020 pop. 21,822), Oklahoma co., central Okla., a residential suburb of Oklahoma City; inc. 1948. ...

(Encyclopedia) Browning, Robert, 1812–89, English poet. His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents—in particular his father, a London bank clerk of inde...

(Encyclopedia) Concepción del Uruguay dĕl o͞oro͞ogwīˈ [key], city, Entre Ríos prov., NE Argentina, a port on the Uruguay ...

(Encyclopedia) Viña del Mar vēˈnyä dĕl mär [key] [Span.,=vineyard by the sea], city (1990 est. pop. 281,100), central Chile. Practically a suburb of Valparaiso, Viña del Mar is one of the most famous and popu...

(Encyclopedia) Costa del Sol kōˈstä ᵺĕl sōlˈ [key], a strip of coastline, S. Spain, in Andalusia, extending from Motril to Estepona The area has become famous as a Mediterranean coastal resort, and its touri...

(Encyclopedia) del Toro, Guillermo (Guillermo del Toro Gómez), 1964–, Mexican film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in special effects and makeup before becoming a writer and director. Del Toro has...