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Barberton (City of Ohio in Summit co It)

a city of Ohio, in Summit co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Erie, the Northern Ohio, and the Pennsylvania railroads, and on the Ohio canal. It has important industries, including the manufacture of matches, chemicals, sewer pipes, rubber, paint, etc.

Pop. (1910) 9,410; (1920) 18,811.

BARCA BARBIZON (bär-bē-zôn'), a village on the outskirts of the forest of Fontainebleau, a great artists' resort, the home of Millet; Corot, Diaz, Daubigny, Dupré, Troyon, and Rousseau were also of the "Barbizon school" of painters.

They were really not a "school," but simply a group of painters of animal, landscape, and peasant subjects having similar aims and painting in accordance with similar principles: a close study of nature, an individual expression of the painter's mood of sentiment. They belonged to the Romantic school of painting. an