Encyclopedia - Art

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'Abd al-Samad Abakanowicz, Magdalena Abbate, Niccolo dell' Abbott, Berenice abstract art Abstract Expressionism Achilles Painter acrylic painting action painting Adams, Ansel Addams, Charles (Samuel) aerial perspective Affleck, Thomas African arts Agoracritus Albani, Francesco Albers, Josef Albright, Ivan (Le Lorraine) Alcamenes Algardi, Alessandro

Allston, Washington Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence altarpiece Altdorfer, Albrecht Alte Pinakothek Amaravati sculpture Amelung glass Ammannati, Bartolommeo anamorphosis Andre, Carl Andrea del Sarto Angelico, Fra Anglo-Saxon art Antelami, Benedetto Antenor Antonello da Messina Apelles Appel, Karel aquatint Ara Pacis (Augustae)

arabesque Arbus, Diane Archipenko, Alexander Arcimboldo, Giuseppe Armani, Giorgio Armory Show Arnolfo di Cambio Arp, Jean art art brut art collection art conservation and restoration art criticism Art Deco art history Art Institute of Chicago Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts movement Asam, Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Ash Can school

assemblage Atget, (Jean-) Eugène (-Auguste) Aubusson carpet Australian Ballet automatism automaton Avedon, Richard Avignon school Axminster carpet azulejo Böcklin, Arnold Baccarat glass Bacon, Francis Bakst, Léon Baldovinetti, Alesso Baldung, Hans Balenciaga, Cristóbal Balmain, Pierre (-Alexandre-Claudius) Balthus Bambocciati

Bandinelli, Baccio Barbizon school bargello bark painting Barlach, Ernst Barnes, Albert C(oombs) Barocci, Federico Baroque period Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste Bartolommeo, Fra Barye, Antoine-Louis bas-relief Baskerville, John basketry Baskin, Leonard Bassano, Jacopo Bateman, Hester batik Battersea enamelware Bayeux Tapestry

bead beadwork Bearden, Romare (Howard) Beardsley, Aubrey (Vincent) Beaton, Sir Cecil (Walter Hardy) Beccafumi, Domenico Beckmann, Max bed Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward) Bellini family Bellotto, Bernardo Bellows, George Wesley Belter, John Henry Belvedere Torso Benedetto da Maiano Benton, Thomas Hart bentwood furniture Berain, Jean, the Elder Berenson, Bernard Berlin Painter

Bermejo, Bartolomé Berruguete, Alonso Berruguete, Pedro Bertoia, Harry Beuys, Joseph Bewick, Thomas Bharhut sculpture Biedermeier style Bierstadt, Albert Bill, Max Bingham, George Caleb bird stone birthstone Bischof, Werner bisj pole black letter black-figure pottery Blakelock, Ralph Blass, Bill Blaue Reiter, Der

Boccioni, Umberto Bodoni, Giambattista body modification and mutilation Bohemian glass Bohemian school Bolognese school bone china Bonheur, Rosa Bonington, Richard Parkes Bonnard, Pierre Book of Kells bookbinding bookcase bookplate Borduas, Paul-Émile Borglum, (John) Gutzon (de la Mothe) Bosch, Hiëronymus Botero, Fernando Botticelli, Sandro Boucher, François

Boudin, Eugène Bouguereau, William (-Adolphe) Boulle, André-Charles Bourgeois, Louise Bourke-White, Margaret Bouts, Dirck Bow porcelain Brücke, Die Brady, Mathew B. Brancusi, Constantin Brandt, Bill Braque, Georges Brassaï British Museum Bronzino, Il brooch Brooks, Romaine Goddard Brouwer, Adriaen Brown, Ford Madox Bruegel, Jan, the Elder

Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder Buli style Bullock, Wynn Burchfield, Charles (Ephraim) Burne-Jones, Sir Edward (Coley) button Byzantine art Cézanne, Paul Caillebotte, Gustave Caldecott, Randolph Calder, Alexander (Stirling) Callahan, Harry (Morey) calligraphy Callimachus Callot, Jacques Camden Town Group cameo cameo glass Cameron, Julia Margaret Campin, Robert

Canaletto Cano, Alonso Canova, Antonio Capa, Robert Capp, Al Caravaggio Cardin, Pierre caricature Carolingian art Carpaccio, Vittore Carracci family Carriera, Rosalba (Giovanna) Cartier-Bresson, Henri cartoon Cassatt, Mary cassone Castagno, Andrea del Catlett, Elizabeth Catlin, George Cavallini, Pietro

celadon Cellini, Benvenuto Cennini, Cennino (d'Andrea) Central Asian arts ceramics Chagall, Marc chair Chamberlain, John (Angus) Champaigne, Philippe de champlevé Chanel, Coco Chantilly lace Chantilly porcelain Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chase, William Merritt Chelsea porcelain chiaroscuro Chicago, Judy chinoiserie Chippendale style

Chippendale, Thomas Chirico, Giorgio de Christie's Christmas tree Christo Christus, Petrus Chughtai, Abdur Rahman Church, Frederic Edwin Cimabue Clark (of Saltwood), Kenneth (Mackenzie) Clark, Baron Classicism and Neoclassicism Claude Lorrain Claudel, Camille (-Rosalie) Cleitias Cleophrades Painter Clodion cloisonné Close, Chuck Clouet, Jean coat of arms

Cobra Coburn, Alvin Langdon Cole, Thomas collage comic strip commode conceptual art Constable, John Constructivism Copley, John Singleton Corinth, Lovis Cornell, Joseph Corot, (Jean-Baptiste-) Camille Correggio corset Cosmati work Courbet, Gustave Courrèges, André Coysevox, Antoine Cranach, Lucas, the Elder

Crane, Walter creamware Cresilas Cressent, Charles Critius and Nesiotes Crivelli, Carlo crown jewels Cruikshank, George Crumb, R(obert) Cubism Cunningham, Imogen Currier & Ives curtain cut glass Cuyp, Aelbert Jacobsz(oon) cylinder seal déblé Dürer, Albrecht Dada Daddi, Bernardo

Daedalic sculpture Dalí (y Domenech), Salvador (Felipe Jacinto) Danube school Daubigny, Charles-François Daumier, Honoré (-Victorin) David, Gerard David, Jacques-Louis Davidson, Bruce Davis, Stuart de Kooning, Willem de la Renta, Oscar de Wolfe, Elsie DeCarava, Roy decorative arts Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar Delacroix, (Ferdinand-) Eugène (-Victor) Delaunay, Robert delftware della Robbia family Demuth, Charles

Derain, André Desiderio da Settignano diamond cutting Didot family Diebenkorn, Richard Dior, Christian Directoire style Dix, Otto Doesburg, Theo van Domenichino Domenico Veneziano Donatello Dong Qichang Doré, Gustave (-Paul) Dou, Gerrit Douglas, Aaron Douris drawing dress Dreyfuss, Henry

Dubuffet, Jean (-Philippe-Arthur) Duccio (di Buoninsegna) Duchamp, Marcel Dufy, Raoul Duncan, David Douglas Durand, Asher B(rown) Eakins, Thomas Eames, Charles and Ray Early American furniture Early Netherlandish art earthenware East Asian arts Eastern Indian bronze ecclesiastical heraldry Edgerton, Harold E(ugene) effigy mound Egyptian art Eight, The Eisenstaedt, Alfred Elgin Marbles

Elsheimer, Adam embroidery Emerson, P(eter) H(enry) Empire style enamelwork English school engraving Ensor, James (Sidney), Baron environmental sculpture Epstein, Sir Jacob Ernst, Max Erté Escher, M(aurits) C(ornelis) etching Etruscan art Euphranor Euphronius Euthymides Evans, Frederick H(enry) Evans, Walker

Exekias Expressionism Eyck, Jan van Fabergé, (Peter) Carl Fabritius, Carel Faenza majolica faience Falconet, Étienne-Maurice fan Fantin-Latour, (Ignace-) Henri (-Jean-Théodore) fashion Fauvism Feininger, Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel) Feininger, Lyonel (Charles Adrian) Fenton, Roger figurehead flag Flaxman, John Flemish art floral decoration

Fluxus folk art Fontainebleau, school of Fouquet, Jean Fragonard, Jean-Honoré Francia, Francesco Franciabigio Franco-Cantabrian school Frank, Robert Frankenthaler, Helen French, Daniel Chester fresco painting Freud, Lucian Friedrich, Caspar David frieze Froben, Johann frottage Fry, Roger (Eliot) Fujiwara style furniture

Fuseli, Henry Futurism Gérôme, Jean-Léon Géricault, (Jean-Louis-André-) Théodore Gabo, Naum Gaddi, Taddeo Gainsborough, Thomas Gallé, Émile Gandhara art Gardner, Alexander Gargas Gauguin, (Eugène-Henri-) Paul Geertgen tot Sint Jans Gemma Augustea genre painting Gentile da Fabriano Gentileschi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Orazio Geometric style Germain, Thomas

Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, J. Paul Ghiberti, Lorenzo Ghirlandaio, Domenico Giacometti, Alberto Giambologna Gibson, Charles Dana Giordano, Luca Giorgione Giotto (di Bondone) Giovanni di Paolo (di Grazia) Girardon, François Gislebertus Giulio Romano Givenchy, Hubert de Glackens, William (James) glove Gobelin family Goddard family Goes, Hugo van der

Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van Goltzius, Hendrick Gonçalves, Nuno Gorky, Arshile Gossart, Jan Gothic art gouache Gould, Chester Goya (y Lucientes), Francisco (José) de Goyen, Jan (Josephszoon) van Gozzoli, Benozzo Grünewald, Matthias graffiti graphic design Greco, El Greek pottery Greenaway, Kate Greenberg, Clement Greuze, Jean-Baptiste Gris, Juan

grisaille Gros, Antoine-Jean Grosz, George grotesque Guardi, Francesco Guercino, Il Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Guggenheim, Peggy hallmark Hals, Frans Haring, Keith Harnett, William (Michael) Hartley, Marsden Hassam, (Frederick) Childe hat Heade, Martin Johnson Henri, Robert Hepplewhite, George Hepworth, Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara heraldry

Herblock Hermitage (museum) Herrera, Francisco, the Elder Herrera, Francisco, the Younger Herriman, George (Joseph) Hesse, Eva Hiberno-Saxon style Hicks, Edward Hill and Adamson Hilliard, Nicholas Hine, Lewis Wickes Hiroshige Hirschfeld, Al(bert) Hobbema, Meindert Hockney, David Hofmann, Hans Hogarth, William Hokusai Holbein, Hans, the Younger Holzer, Jenny

Homer, Winslow Honthorst, Gerrit van Hooch, Pieter de Hopper, Edward hosiery Houdon, Jean-Antoine Hudson River school Hunt, William Holman Husain, Maqbul Fida Ike Taiga ikebana illuminated manuscript Impressionism Indiana, Robert industrial design Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Inness, George intaglio intarsia interior design

Islamic arts ivory ivory carving Jocho Jogan style Jackson, A(lexander) Y(oung) Jackson, William Henry Jacobean age Jacopo della Quercia Jawlensky, Alexey Jensen, Georg jewelry John, Augustus (Edwin) Johns, Jasper Jordaens, Jacob Judd, Donald Jugendstil Kändler, Johann Joachim Kahlo (y Calderón de Rivera), (Magdalena Carmen) Frida Kaikei

Kalf, Willem Kandinsky, Vasily (Vasilievich) Kane, Paul Karsh, Yousuf Kauffmann, (Maria Anna) Angelica (Catharina) Kelly, Ellsworth Kelly, Walt(er Crawford) Kent, Rockwell Kertész, André Kiefer, Anselm Kienholz, Edward kilim kilt kimono kinetic sculpture Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kitaj, R(onald) B(rooks) Klee, Paul Klein, Calvin (Richard) Klein, Yves

Klimt, Gustav Kline, Franz Klinger, Max Kokoschka, Oskar Kollwitz, Käthe kore kouros Krasner, Lee Kushan art Léger, Fernand La Tour, Georges de lace Lachaise, Gaston lacquerwork Lagerfeld, Karl Lalique, René (Jules) Lamerie, Paul de Landseer, Sir Edwin (Henry) Lanfranco, Giovanni Lange, Dorothea

Lartigue, Jacques-Henri (-Charles-Auguste) Latin American arts Laurana, Francesco Lauren, Ralph Lawrence, Jacob Le Brun, Charles Le Nain brothers Leech, John Lehmbruck, Wilhelm Leibovitz, Annie Leochares Leonardo da Vinci Levitt, Helen Leyster, Judith Li Keran Li Sixun Li Tang Lichtenstein, Roy Liebermann, Max Limbourg brothers

Limoges painted enamel Limoges ware Limosin, Léonard Lindisfarne Gospels Lipchitz, Jacques Lippi, Filippino Lippi, Fra Filippo Lissitzky, El Liu Songnian Lochner, Stefan Loewy, Raymond (Fernand) Longhi, Pietro Lorenzetti, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzo Monaco Lotto, Lorenzo Louis XIII style Louis XIV style Louis XV style Louis XVI style Louis, Morris

Louvre Museum Lucas (Huyghszoon) van Leyden Luini, Bernardino luminism Luristan Bronze lustred glass Lysippus Mir Sayyid 'Ali Ma Yuan Macchiaioli Maes, Nicolaes Magritte, René (-François-Ghislain) Maillol, Aristide majolica Majorelle, Louis majuscule Malevich, Kazimir (Severinovich) Man Ray Mander, Karel van Manet, Édouard

Mannerism Mantegna, Andrea Manzù, Giacomo Mapplethorpe, Robert Marc, Franz Marin, John Marini, Marino marquetry Marsh, Reginald Marsyas Painter Martin, Agnes Martini, Simone Masaccio Masamune Masolino Masson, André (-Aimé-René) Mathura art Matisse, Henri (-Émile-Benoît) medal Meegeren, Han van

Meidias Painter Meissen porcelain Meissonier, Juste-Aurèle Memling, Hans Mengs, Anton Raphael Merovingian art metal point metalwork Metaphysical painting Metropolitan Museum of Art Metsys, Quentin mezzotint Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti) Micon Millais, Sir John Everett millefleurs tapestry Millet, Jean-François miniature painting Minimalism Mino da Fiesole

minuscule Miró, Joan moai figure mobile Modersohn-Becker, Paula Modigliani, Amedeo Moholy-Nagy, László Mondrian, Piet Monet, Claude monogram monotype Montañés, Juan (de) Martínez montage Moore, Henry Morales, Luis de Morandi, Giorgio Moreau, Gustave Morison, Stanley Morisot, Berthe Morris, Robert

Morris, William mosaic Moscow school Moses, Grandma Motherwell, Robert Mount, William Sidney Mozarabic art Mucha, Alphonse Mughal painting Munch, Edvard Muqi Fachang mural Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Myron Nabis Nadar naive art Namatjira, Albert Nanni di Banco

Nast, Thomas National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Canada Native American arts Navajo weaving Nazarene needlepoint Neo-Expressionism Neo-Impressionism Neue Sachlichkeit Nevelson, Louise New York school Newman, Arnold (Abner) Newman, Barnett Ni Zan Nicholas of Verdun niello Niobid Painter Noguchi, Isamu

Nolan, Sir Sidney Noland, Kenneth Nolde, Emil Northern Wei sculpture Novgorod school Nymphenburg porcelain O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Sullivan, Timothy H. Oceanic arts Ogata Kenzan oil painting Okumura Masanobu Oldenburg, Claes (Thure) Op art Orcagna, Andrea ormolu Orozco, José Clemente Orphism Ostade, Adriaen van Ottonian art

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste Pacher, Michael Pahari painting Paik, Nam June painting Palissy, Bernard Palmer, Samuel Pannini, Giovanni Paolo Panofsky, Erwin panorama paper folding Parmigianino Parrhasius Parrish, (Frederick) Maxfield Pascin, Jules pastel Patinir, Joachim (de) Peale, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt pearl

pen drawing pencil drawing pendant Penn, Irving perfume bottle perspective Perugino Pevsner, Antoine Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Phidias Philipon, Charles Photo-Realism Photo-Secession photography Phyfe, Duncan Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista Picabia, Francis Picasso, Pablo (Ruiz y) Piero della Francesca Piero di Cosimo

Pietà Pietro da Cortona Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste Pilon, Germain Pinturicchio Pippin, Horace Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Pisano, Andrea Pisano, Giovanni Pisano, Nicola Pissarro, (Jacob-Abraham-) Camille pointillism Poiret, Paul Pollaiuolo brothers Pollock, (Paul) Jackson Polyclitus Polygnotus Pompidou Centre Pont-Aven school Pontormo, Jacopo da

Pop art porcelain Portland Vase Post-Impressionism poster pottery Poussin, Nicolas Powers, Hiram Prado Museum Praxiteles Precisionism Prendergast, Maurice (Brazil) Primaticcio, Francesco printmaking Prix de Rome Proto-Geometric style Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) Pucci, Emilio, marquess di Barsento Pucelle, Jean

Pueblo pottery Puget, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (-Cécile) Qin tomb Quant, Mary Queen Anne style quilting Régence style Rackham, Arthur Raeburn, Sir Henry Raimondi, Marcantonio Raphael Rauschenberg, Robert Rayonism ready-made realism red-figure pottery Redon, Odilon Redouté, Pierre Joseph Regency style

Reinhardt, Ad(olf Frederick) relief Rembrandt (Harmenszoon) van Rijn Remington, Frederic Reni, Guido Renoir, Pierre-Auguste Repin, Ilya (Yefimovich) Reynolds, Sir Joshua Rhodes, Colossus of Ribalta, Francisco Ribera, José de Richter, Gerhard Riemenschneider, Tilman Riesener, Jean-Henri ring Ringgold, Faith Riopelle, Jean-Paul Rivera, Diego Rivers, Larry Robinson, Henry Peach

rocaille Rockwell, Norman Rodchenko, Aleksandr (Mikhailovich) Rodin, (François-) Auguste (René) Roentgen, Abraham roman Romanesque art Romney, George Rosa, Salvator Rosenquist, James Rossellino, Bernardo Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rosso, Giovanni Battista (di Jacopo) Rothko, Mark Rouault, Georges (-Henri) Rousseau, (Pierre-Etienne-) Théodore Rousseau, Henri Rowlandson, Thomas Roy, Jamini Royal Academy of Arts

Rubens, Peter Paul Rublev, Andrei rubrication Rude, François rug and carpet Ruisdael, Jacob (Isaakszoon) van Ruskin, John Ruysdael, Salomon van Ryder, Albert Pinkham Sánchez Cotán, Juan Sèvres porcelain Saar, Betye Sacchi, Andrea Saenredam, Pieter Jansz(oon) Sahibdin Saint Laurent, Yves (-Henri-Donat-Mathieu) Saint-Cloud porcelain Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Salgado, Sebastião Salomon, Erich

Salon Salon des Indépendants Salon des Refusés Sanchi sculpture Sansovino, Andrea Sansovino, Jacopo Sargent, John Singer Sassetta Schiaparelli, Elsa Schiele, Egon Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Schnabel, Julian Schongauer, Martin Schulz, Charles Schwitters, Kurt Scopas Scorel, Jan van scrimshaw scroll painting sculpture

Scythian art Sebastiano del Piombo Segal, George segoni-kun Sendak, Maurice (Bernard) Serra, Richard Seurat, Georges (-Pierre) Seven, Group of Sezession Shahn, Ben(jamin) Shaker furniture Sheeler, Charles Sheffield plate Sheraton, Thomas Sherman, Cindy shoe sign Signac, Paul Signorelli, Luca (d'Egidio di Ventura de') silhouette

silkscreen Siloé, Diego de Silverstein, Shel(by) Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siskind, Aaron Sisley, Alfred Sistine Chapel slipware Sloan, John (French) Sluter, Claus Smith, David (Roland) Smith, W(illiam) Eugene Social Realism Sotheby's South Asian arts South Indian bronze Southeast Asian arts Soutine, Chaim Staffordshire figure stained glass

Steen, Jan (Havickszoon) Steichen, Edward (Jean) Steinberg, Saul Stella, Frank (Philip) Stickley, Gustav Stiegel, Henry William Stieglitz, Alfred Stijl, De Still, Clyfford still-life painting stoneware Stoss, Veit Strand, Paul Stroganov school Stuart style Stuart, Gilbert (Charles) Stubbs, George Sukhothai style Suprematism Surrealism

Sutherland, Graham (Vivian) Symbolism Synchromism Tápies, Antoni table Tabriz school Tachism Tamayo, Rufino Tanagra figure Tanguy, Yves Tanner, Henry Ossawa tapestry tartan Tate Gallery Tatlin, Vladimir (Yevgrafovich) tattoo telum figure tempera painting Tempyo style Teniers, David

Tenniel, Sir John Terborch, Gerard Terbrugghen, Hendrik terra-cotta Thonet, Michael Thorvaldsen, Bertel throne Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tinguely, Jean Tintoretto Titian Tobey, Mark toga Tori style Toulouse-Lautrec (-Monfa), Henri (-Marie-Raymond) de Townsend family trompe l'oeil Trumbull, John

Tura, Cosimo Turner, J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Tussaud, Marie typography Uccello, Paolo Uffizi Gallery ukiyo-e Unkei Urbino majolica Utamaro Utrecht school Utrillo, Maurice Valdés Leal, Juan de Van Dyck, Sir Anthony Vanderlyn, John VanDerZee, James (Augustus Joseph) Vasarely, Victor Vasari, Giorgio Vatican Museums and Galleries Velázquez, Diego (Rodríguez de Silva)

Velde, Henri van de Velde, Willem van de, the Elder veneer Venetian glass Venetian school Venice Biennale Vermeer, Johannes Vernet, (Claude-) Joseph Veronese, Paolo Verrocchio, Andrea del Versace, Gianni Victoria and Albert Museum Vigée-Lebrun, (Marie-Louise-) Élisabeth Vincennes ware Vingt, Les Vivarini family Vladimir-Suzdal school Vlaminck, Maurice de Vouet, Simon Vuillard, (Jean-) Édouard

Wölfflin, Heinrich wallpaper Wang Hui Warhol, Andy watercolour Waterford glass Watteau, (Jean-) Antoine wax sculpture Wedgwood ware Wedgwood, Josiah Wen Zhengming West, Benjamin Western Indian bronze Weston, Edward Weyden, Rogier van der Whistler, James (Abbott) McNeill White, Clarence H(udson) White, Minor Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt Wiener Werkstätte

wig Wilson, Richard Winckelmann, Johann (Joachim) Witz, Konrad Wood family Wood, Grant woodcut Worth, Charles Frederick WPA Federal Art Project Wyeth, Andrew (Newell) Wyeth, N(ewell) C(onvers) Xia Gui Xu Beihong Zadkine, Ossip Zeuxis Zhang Daqian Zuccaro, Federico Zurbarán, Francisco de