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- major painter of the Spanish Baroque, especially noted for religious subjects. His work is characterized by Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, the latter a style in which most forms are depicted ...
- Zurich
- canton, northeastern Switzerland, with an area of 668 sq mi (1,729 sq km), of which about 80 percent is reckoned as productive, including about 195 sq mi of forests. Of ...
- Zurich
- largest city of Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is a financial and industrial centre located in an Alpine setting at the northwestern end of Lake ...
- Zurich ware
- faience (tin-glazed earthenware), faience fine (lead-glazed earthenware), and porcelain made at a factory near Zurich founded in 1763 by Salomon Gessner and others. The faience was at first painted in ...
- Zurich Zoological Garden
- privately owned zoological park partially funded by the city and canton of Zurich. Opened in 1929, the 10-hectare (25-acre) zoo exhibits nearly 2,100 specimens of more than 330 species. It ...
- Zurich, Lake
- Swiss lake extending southeast from the city of Zurich. It lies at an altitude of 1,332 feet (406 m) and has an area of about 34 square miles (88 square ...
- Zurita y Castro, Jeronimo de
- Spanish government official who is regarded as the first modern Spanish historian.
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