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Lalla Hvalstad
Ragnhild (Lalla) Hvalstad (1875–1962) was a Norwegian painter and ceramist. In 1894, she was one of ten artists who participated in the Vågåsommeren artists' colony in Vågå, Innlandet, Innlandet County. After painting portraits, interiors and landscapes, in 1922 she changed her focus to ceramics, studying in Faenza, Italy. On returning to Norway, she opened her own workshop in Bestum where together with she created a wide variety of pottery, frequently decorated with flowers and fruits. Biography Born on 7 March 1875 in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Ragnhild Hvalstad was the daughter of the factory manager Johannes Andersen Hvalstad (1832–1922) and his wife Marie Agnete Bjørnstad (1844–1922). She studied painting in Stockholm at Harriet Backer's school (1894–1895) and was a student of J.F. Willumsen in Copenhagen (1899–1900 and 1903). She befriended in particular her fellow art students Alice Pihl, Johanna Bugge Berge and Kris Laache. In 1894, these four joined Kristen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lalla ( 720–790 CE) was an Indian Indian mathematics, mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who belonged to a family of astronomers. Lalla was the son of Trivikrama Bhatta and the grandson of Śâmba."Lalla." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. He lived in central India, possibly in the Lāṭa region in modern south Gujarat. Lalla was known as being one of the leading Indian astronomers of the eighth century. Only two of his works are currently thought to be extant.Bracher, Katherine His best-known work is the ''Śiṣyadhīvṛddhidatantra'' ("Treatise which expands the intellect of students"). This text is one of the first major Sanskrit astronomical texts known from the period following the 7th-century works of Brahmagupta and Bhāskara I. It generally treats the same astronomical subject matter and demonstrates the same computational techniques as earlier authors, although there are some significant innovations, such that Lalla’s treatise offers a compromise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
