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Iconographic analysis
Iconographic analysis is an art history method that identifies the subjects, symbols, and motifs in an image and interprets what they mean, largely for medieval and Renaissance art.
Iconography
Iconography, from Greek eikon and graphia, is the art-historical study of subject matter and symbolic meaning in images, distinct from formal analysis; Panofsky's three-level method and ICONCLASS define the field.
Image
An image is a representation—a drawing, mosaic, or optical counterpart—studied in art history and image theory, where modern visual culture considers its function beyond the artistic domain.
Indian art
Indian art is the visual art of the Indian subcontinent, produced since prehistoric times. Its creation was shaped by diverse patronage, from royal courts to colonial institutions.
Ingrid Sischy
Ingrid Sischy (1952–2015), South African-born American editor and critic, led Artforum 1979–1987 and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine until 2008, then wrote for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Islamic art
Islamic art, also called Muslim art, is the art and architecture made from the seventh century onward across lands ruled by Muslims or for the Muslim faith.
Jacqueline Roque
Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986), Picasso's second wife and final model, met him in 1952 at Madoura pottery in Vallauris, married him in 1961, and inspired some two hundred portraits until his 1973 death.
Japanese art
Japanese art (日本美術) spans Jomon pottery to contemporary work, including nihonga painting on silk or washi with mineral pigments and animal glue, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and Buddhist sculpture, conserved through periodic remounting and national museum networks.
John Berger
John Berger (1926–2017), British writer, painter, and Marxist art critic; author of Ways of Seeing (1972 BBC series and book) and Booker Prize-winning novel G.; collaborator of photographer Jean Mohr; settled in Quincy, French Alps.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art and social critic: championed Turner in Modern Painters, wrote The Stones of Venice and Unto This Last, opposed classical economics, and influenced Morris, Proust, and Gandhi.
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), Baron Clark of Saltwood, British art historian, youngest Director of the National Gallery (1934–45), and presenter of the 1969 BBC series Civilisation; author of The Nude and Landscape into Art.
Kylix (κύλιξ)
Kylix (κύλιξ), plural kylikes: shallow Greek stemmed wine cup with two horizontal handles, standard drinking vessel at the symposium; made in stemmed and stemless forms, often in Attic red-figure by painters such as Douris and Euphronios.
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), Italian humanist, architect, and theorist; wrote De pictura/Della pittura (1435/1436), the first theory of linear perspective, and De re aedificatoria, first architectural treatise since Vitruvius.
Lidai Minghua Ji
Lidai Minghua Ji (歷代名畫記) is a ten-juan history and theory of Chinese painting completed in 847 by Zhang Yanyuan, regarded as the earliest systematic art-historical writing.
Linquan Gaozhi
Linquan Gaozhi (林泉高致, "Exalted Views on Woods and Streams") is a Northern Song treatise on landscape painting, compiled by Guo Si from his father Guo Xi's teachings.
List of French artists
List of French artists: no single canon exists; the Joconde database lists 50,000+ artists with works in Musée de France collections, alongside Louvre, Orsay, and Cnap catalogs, with varying nationality criteria.
Lothar Ledderose
Lothar Ledderose (born 1942 in Munich) is a German art historian of East Asian art, best known for the modular mass-production thesis in his 2000 book Ten Thousand Things.
Madeleine Pelling
Madeleine Pelling (Madeleine Lucy Pelling), British cultural historian and broadcaster of eighteenth-century Britain; York PhD 2018 on the Duchess of Portland's museum; author of Writing on the Wall (2024) and Hoax (2026); co-host of History Hit's After Dark podcast.
Mário Pedrosa
Mário Pedrosa (1900–1981) was a Brazilian art critic and political militant regarded as central to Brazil's postwar modern art scene and a founder of the Workers' Party.
Mario Torelli
Mario Torelli (1937–2020) was an Italian classical archaeologist who transformed the reading of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman imagery, directed major sanctuary excavations in Italy, and won the 2014 Balzan Prize.
Masterpiece
Masterpiece: originally the chef d'œuvre a guild craftsman submitted to earn master rank, now the outstanding work expressing an artist's fullest achievement; covers guild origins, canon formation, UNESCO and market uses.
Maurizio Calvesi (art historian, 1927–2020)
Maurizio Calvesi (1927–2020) was an Italian art historian who taught at Palermo and Rome, studied Caravaggio, Dürer, and Duchamp, and won the 2008 Balzan Prize.
Maya Widmaier-Picasso
Maya Widmaier-Picasso (1935–2022), born María de la Concepción, eldest daughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter, was a French art historian, authenticator of Picasso's work, and donor in 2021 of nine works to the French state.
Medieval art
Medieval art: European and Mediterranean art from the fall of Rome (476 CE) to the 15th-century Renaissance, chiefly Byzantine and Western Romanesque/Gothic traditions, mostly religious in purpose and Church-patronized.
Mehmed Esad Yesari
Mehmed Esad Yesari (Yesârî Mehmed Esad Efendi), who died in 1798, was an Ottoman calligrapher who gave the ta'lik script its Ottoman-Turkish identity and founded the Turkish ta'lik school.
México en el Arte
México en el Arte was an official arts magazine published by Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, running quarterly from 1948 to 1952 and reissued in facsimile in 2019.
Modern Painters
Modern Painters is a five-volume work of art criticism by John Ruskin, published from 1843 to 1860, defending J.M.W. Turner as the greatest landscape painter.
Muraqqa
A muraqqa (Persian for "album") is an album of mounted paintings, drawings, and calligraphy bound between decorated covers, reaching its peak under Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Nagara Style
Nagara style: the North Indian Hindu temple architecture tradition, defined by a curvilinear shikhara over the garbhagriha, amalaka and kalasha crowns, no gopuram; Gupta origins, Odisha, Khajuraho, and Solanki schools.
Nude (art)
The nude in art: the unclothed human body as an artistic genre, from Greek athletic ideals and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite through the Renaissance revival, Kenneth Clark's naked/nude distinction, and feminist critique.