short story authors
Known for twist endings
Wrote the Gift of Magi and The ransom of red chief
Henry ( William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910)
Luna
Earth
Born in wisconsin
worked under Louis Sullivan before founding a Chicago practice. His early homes, like the Robie House — which is adjacent to the campus of the University of Chicago — are in the “Prairie” style: horizontal orientation and low roofs. His “organic architecture” tries to harmonize with its inhabitants and site; examples include the Kaufmann House
Frank Lloyd Wright
Completed in 1652, this massive work is one of the hallmarks of the Dutch Golden Age. Not only does it display Rembrandt's masterful skills at rendering dozens of individuals almost life-size, but it also features Baroque art qualities like a dramatic use of light and shadow and a display of movement
The Night Watch
Who wrote Dracula
Bram Stoker
Created the semi-autobiographical character of Nick Adams
Adams appears in Big two-hearted river
Made hills like white elephant
Ernest Hemingway
Phobos
Mars
Born in China, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1935. Though he has also designed moderate-income housing
s best known for large-scale projects. His works include the Mile High Center in Denver, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, the John Hancock Building in Boston, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
I.M. Pei
The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar looted the Temple in Jerusalem and has stolen the sacred artifacts such as golden cups
Belshazzar's Feast
Who wrote The playboy of the western world
John Milington Synge
An American author best known for The catcher in the Rye
Also wrote A perfect day for Bananafish.
J.D Salinger
Titan
Saturn
Possibly more influential even than Wright, he wrote the 1923 book Towards a New Architecture, standard reading in architectural theory courses. One famous Corbusian quote is “A house is a machine for living in.” His floor plans were influenced by Cubist principles of division of space, and the Villa Savoye (Poissy, France) is his best-known early work. He wrote of the “Radiant City” begun anew, a completely planned city with skyscrapers for residents.
Le Corbusier
the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great.
The Music Lesson
Who wrote Easter 1916
Wiliam Butler Yeats
A french Author
Uses Ironic endings
Making "the Necklace"
and Boule de suif
Guy de Maupassant
Triton
Neptune
A friend of Donatello, Brunelleschi was a skilled sculptor and goldsmith, whose 1401 competition with Lorenzo Ghiberti for the commission of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery is a frequent question topic
Filippo Brunelleschi
Vermeer's tender rendering of a sturdy 'kitchen maid' performing a simple household chore in a simple kitchen setting
The Milkmaid
Who wrote Pygmalion
Goerge Bernard Shaw
Philosophical stories
The library babel
The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges
lo
Galilean
Winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize, Gehry is best-known today for large-scale compositions like the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle (formerly known as the EMP Museum and Experience Music Project), the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the recent, controversial Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Frank Gehry
Leyster's painting is an embodiment of domestic virtue. The painting depicts a woman, very focused in her work, ignoring the advances of a man offering her money;
The proposition
Who wrote Ulysses
James Joyce