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Antônio Vieira (1608-1697)
Jesuit priest, missionary, diplomat, orator, and theologian Antônio Vieira was born in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, on February...
Thomas Richman Blackshear II (1955- )
Thomas Blackshear is a renowned painter and sculptor. Blackshear was born in Waco, Texas on November 14, 1955 to Thomas...
Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of a Moor (1520-1530)
In the following account University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the famous 16th Century painting of a black...
Vincent Lushington (“Roi”) Ottley
Vincent Lushington “Roi” Ottley was born in Harlem in 1906 to parents Jerome P. and Beatrice (Brisbane) Ottley who were...
