See Also: Lanfranco, Giovanni(encyclopedia)
Don Giovanni(dictionary)
Bianchi, Giovanni(medicine)
Giolitti, Giovanni(encyclopedia)
Giovanni (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Medici, Giovanni de'(encyclopedia)
Paisiello, Giovanni(encyclopedia)
Pisano, Giovanni(encyclopedia)
Verga, Giovanni(encyclopedia)
Verrazzano, Giovanni da(encyclopedia)

bot(1) (iou) and Lanfranco, Giovanni (sh)


bot(1) (iou)



bot noun1. Also bott. E16.
[Prob. of Low Dutch origin: cf. Dutch bot, West Frisian botten (pl.), Western Flemish botse, Northern Frisian galboten liver-worm, West Frisian botgalle disease caused by bots.]
A parasitic worm or maggot infesting livestock; spec. the larva of a fly (called bot-fly) of the genus Oestrus, which affects esp. the digestive organs; the bots (as sing.), the disease caused by these parasites. E16.
A cadger; a useless person; a hanger-on. Austral. & NZ slang. E20.

Lanfranco, Giovanni (sh)




born Jan. 26, 1582, Parma
died Nov. 30, 1647, Rome

Italian painter.

He studied with Agostino Carracci. In 1602 he went to Rome to work with Annibale Carracci in the Farnese Palace. After Annibale's death, he became the leading fresco painter in Rome. His work shows the influence of Correggio's dynamic illusionism. His masterpiece is the Assumption of the Virgin in the dome of Sant'Andrea della Valle (1625-27), which he took over from his rival, Domenichino; with its vigorously painted figures floating in the clouds over the viewer, it is a pivotal work of the Baroque period. He worked in Naples 1633-46; his best-known work there is the dome of the chapel of San Gennaro in the cathedral (1641-46).