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Abby Champion
Abby Champion (born 1997, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American fashion model, also known as Patrick Schwarzenegger's wife. Debut 2017; 186 Big Four runway shows; campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Zimmermann, Chanel.
Abomey appliqué
Abomey appliqué is a court textile art of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, in which colorful cut-cotton figures sewn onto dark grounds record the emblems, battles, and proverbs of Fon kings.
Achaemenid rhyton
An Achaemenid rhyton (ریتون هخامنشی) is a ceremonial drinking horn of the Persian Achaemenid empire, ca. 700–330 BCE, combining a horn-shaped vessel with an animal protome and a spout.
Achille Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) was a Milanese architect and industrial designer, a central figure of postwar Italian design who created nearly 150 objects, including the Arco floor lamp.
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel born 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, longest-running Victoria's Secret Angel (2000–2018), Maybelline face, returned 2024 and closed the 2026 VS show at 45.
Afro-Brazilian religious art
Afro-Brazilian religious art spans sacred objects made for Candomblé and Umbanda rituals and works by artists like Rubem Valentim who translate the religions' symbols into fine art.
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn, born Laura Michelle Hollins in 1983, is an English model and actress, British Fashion Awards Model of the Year 2007, face of Burberry and Shiseido, later lead actress in Pusher, Electricity, and Sunset Song.
Aino Aalto
Aino Aalto, born Aino Maria Marsio (1894–1949), was a Finnish architect and designer who worked beside her husband Alvar Aalto, co-founded Artek in 1935, and designed the Bölgeblick glassware Iittala still produces.
Albarello
An albarello is a ceramic storage jar with a concave waist, best known as the apothecary drug jar of the Islamic world and Renaissance Italy.
Alessandra Alores
Alessandra Alores (Алессандра Алорес), born 1984 in Kyiv as Alexandra Vodjanikova, is a German model and beauty queen: Miss Deutschland 2003, Top Model of the World 2008, and Miss World Deutschland 2009, disqualified from Miss World 2009.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio (Alessandra Corine Ambrósio, born 1981, Erechim, Brazil) is a Brazilian model and actress, a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2004 to 2017 who debuted on its runway in 2000, wore the Fantasy Bra in 2012 and 2014, and returned to mark her 20th show in 2026.
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was an Italian architect and designer, a central figure of Italian Radical Design, known for the Proust armchair, the Anna G. corkscrew, and the Groninger Museum.
Alhambra Vase
The Alhambra Vase is a type of monumental luxury ceramic vase made in the Nasrid kingdom of Granada between the late 13th and 15th centuries.
Amanda Ungaro
Amanda Ungaro, born 1984 in Londrina, Brazil, is a former fashion model, onetime UN diplomat for Grenada, and ex-partner of Paolo Zampolli; deported from the US in 2025, she drew 2026 attention for claims about the Epstein and Trump circles.
Anab Jain
Anab Jain is an Indian designer based in London who co-founded the futures studio Superflux in 2009 and has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2016.
Animal carpet
An animal carpet is a knotted-pile Persian carpet filled with animals in combat or hunting scenes, produced in Safavid Iran in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Anna Cleveland
Anna Cleveland (Anna Van Ravenstein Cleveland), Dutch-born fashion model, daughter of 1970s supermodel Pat Cleveland; broke out at Giles SS15 2015, campaigns for Lanvin, Bottega Veneta, Bvlgari ambassador.
Antioch Chalice
The Antioch Chalice is a two-part Byzantine silver vessel of about 500–550 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibited in 1933 as the Holy Grail.
Aoki Mokubei
Aoki Mokubei (青木木米, 1767–1833) was a Japanese potter and literati painter of late Edo-period Kyoto whose porcelain revived Kyoto ware and, from 1807, Kutani ware in Kanazawa.
Applied arts
Applied arts: art applied to functional objects such as ceramics, furniture, textiles, and metalwork, distinct from the fine arts; shaped by the Arts and Crafts movement, the Deutscher Werkbund, and Japan's Mingei movement.
Ardabil Carpet
The Ardabil Carpet is a large knotted-pile Persian carpet dated by its inscription to 1539-40, made under Iran's Safavid dynasty and held in London's Victoria and Albert Museum since 1893.
Ardagh Chalice
The Ardagh Chalice is an 8th-century silver two-handled chalice found in 1868 in a hoard near Ardagh, County Limerick, Ireland, and now held by the National Museum of Ireland.
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971) was a Danish architect and designer whose total-design practice produced the SAS Royal Hotel, St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Egg and Swan chairs.
Arnold Krog
Arnold Krog was a Danish architect and painter who, as artistic director of the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory from 1885 to 1916, created the blue underglaze painting style.
Art Nouveau glass
Art Nouveau glass is art glass produced in the Art Nouveau style of roughly 1890 to 1914, with its leading center in Nancy, France, under Émile Gallé.
Art Smith (jeweler)
Art Smith (Arthur George Smith) was an American modernist studio jeweler who worked in Greenwich Village from 1946 to 1979, creating large, biomorphic jewelry in brass, copper, and silver.
Asafo flags
Asafo flags (Fante: frankaa, plural mfrankaa) are appliquéd and embroidered ceremonial flags of the Fante asafo military companies of coastal Ghana, often depicting Akan proverbs.
Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil
Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil (Aubrey Lea Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil Baliles), great-great-granddaughter of George and Edith Vanderbilt, is an Asheville jewelry designer and founder of Avermore, a Biltmore-inspired fine jewelry brand.
Aubusson tapestry
Aubusson tapestry is a hand-woven textile art produced since the 15th century in Aubusson and Felletin in central France, known for large decorative wall hangings.
Aztec turquoise mosaic
Aztec turquoise mosaic is a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican decorative technique, dated 1400-1521, in which turquoise tiles were glued onto carved wood to make masks, shields, sacrificial knives, and pectorals.