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baccarat
Card game resembling chemin de fer in which three hands of two or three cards each are dealt and players may bet either or both hands against the dealer's. In a two-handed version, players may bet on or against the dealer. Baccarat's popularity in France and England, and eventually in other countries, dates from the 19th cent. Players aim for a count of 9. Face (court) cards and 10s are counted as 0. The cards in each hand are added to obtain the value, but only the last digit is significant. Thus, in a hand of 6 and 7, the sum is 13, but only the 3 of that number counts. Though a glamorous game that attracts high rollers, baccarat is mostly a game of luck.
Zuccaro
Italian painter and art theorist. In 1565 he worked in Florence with G. Vasari. He codified the theory of Mannerism in The Idea of Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1607) and in a series of frescoes in his own house in Rome. In England in 1575 he drew or painted portraits of Elizabeth I and the earl of Leicester. He also painted the dome of Florence Cathedral (1574), a large work in the Doges' Palace in Venice (1582), and much work for El Escorial in Spain (1585-88). At one time the central figure of the Roman Mannerist school, he lived to see Mannerism become extinct.
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