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Andrea del Sarto Also known as Andrea d’Agnolo Profile Painter . His work shows the influence of Fra Bartolommeo and Leonardo da Vinci. His well-known Madonna of the Harpies, painted in 1517 , and so called from the decoration of the pedestal, is now in the Uffizi gallery. He was called to France in 1518 … Continue reading “Andrea del Sarto”

Andrea d’Agnolo Also known as Andrea d’Agnolo Profile Painter . His work shows the influence of Fra Bartolommeo and Leonardo da Vinci. His well-known Madonna of the Harpies, painted in 1517 , and so called from the decoration of the pedestal, is now in the Uffizi gallery. He was called to France in 1518 by … Continue reading “Andrea d’Agnolo”

Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603) Physician, philosopher, and botanist , born Arezzo, Italy ; died Rome, Italy . He was educated at the University of Pisa where he later taught philoaophy, medicine, and botany ; directed the botanical gardens at Pisa, 1554 -1558 ; and was professor of medicine at Sapienza, and physician to Pope Clement VIII. … Continue reading “Andrea Cesalpino”

Andrea, Antonio an Arragonese, a Franciscan friar, and a disciple of Scotus, flourished about the beginning of the 14th century. He wrote, among other works, a treatise on the Principles of Gilbert de la Porree (Venice, 1512, 1517). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Andrea priest and canon OF BERGAMO, lived near the close of the 9th century. He wrote a History from the time of the entry of the Lombards into Italy down to the death of the emperor Louis II, about A.D. 874. This History was published by Muratori in vol. 1 of his Antiquitates Italica. See … Continue reading “Andrea”

Andre, Yves Marie a French Jesuit, was born May 22, 1675, at Chateaulin, in Lower Brittany, and settled at Caen, where he was professor regius of mathematics from 1726 to 1759. He died Feb. 26, 1764. He is chiefly known by Essai sur la Beau, of which a new edition was given in the collection … Continue reading “Andre, Yves Marie”

Andre, John George a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Michlen, duchy of Nassau, Germany, Aug. 22, 1828. He emigrated to New Orleans in 1846, and in the following spring settled in Louisville, Ky. In 1848 he was converted; in 1850 received license to preach; and six years later entered the travelling connection of the … Continue reading “Andre, John George”

Andre Dumont Catholic geologist . Born 1809; died 1857. Drew up a masterly geological map of Belgium. Did renowned research on the stratigraphy of European geological formations. Devised nomenclature for certain divisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Ages. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Andre De Saint-Nicolas a French Carmelite friar, was born at fIemiremont, in Lorraine, about 1650, and died at Besangon in 1713. He wrote, De Lapide Sepulchrali, Antiquis Burgundo-Sequanormn Conzitibus, Vesuntione, in Sancti Joannis Evangeliste Basilica recens Posito (Besaln-on, 1693): Lettres en Forme de Dissertation sur la Pretendue DIcouuerte de la Ville d’Antre en Franzche-Comte (Dijon, … Continue reading “Andre De Saint-Nicolas”

Andras van Wesele Born December 1514 at Brussels, Belgium; died June 1564, Zacynthus, Greece. Reorganized the study of anatomy and overthrew devotion to the works of Galen. Author of the first complete textbook on human anatomy, De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body). The statement that he was hampered by ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Andras van Wesele”