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Cretan School
The Cretan School, also called the Italo-Cretan school, was an icon-painting school on Venetian-ruled Crete from the late 14th to late 17th century, blending Byzantine and Renaissance traditions.
Cusco School
The Cusco School (Escuela cuzqueña) was a Roman Catholic painting tradition that developed in Cusco, Peru, during the colonial period, chiefly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Danube school
The Danube school (Donauschule) is a style of painting, graphic art, and sculpture that flourished in the Bavarian and Austrian Danube region from about 1500 to 1550.
Debre Berhan Selassie
Debre Berhan Selassie, "Mount of the Light of the Trinity," is an Ethiopian Orthodox church northeast of Gondar, famed for its murals and a ceiling of winged cherub heads.
Deccan painting
Deccan painting, also called Deccani painting, is a form of Indian miniature painting made for the Deccan sultanates, chiefly from the late 16th to the mid-17th century.
Đông Hồ painting
Đông Hồ painting, or Tranh Đông Hồ, is a Vietnamese folk art of multicolor woodblock prints made in Đông Hồ village near Hanoi, traditionally hung in homes at Tết.
Dong-Ju school
Dong-Ju is the paired name of Five Dynasties painters Dong Yuan and Juran, founders of southern Chinese landscape painting known for hemp-fiber strokes and misty Jiangnan scenery.
Dunhuang copy-painting tradition
The Dunhuang copy-painting tradition (敦煌壁画临摹) is the practice of hand-copying the murals of the Dunhuang caves, chiefly the Mogao Grottoes, to preserve the deteriorating originals.
Dunhuang murals
Dunhuang murals (敦煌壁画) are Buddhist wall paintings preserved in the cave temples of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, above all the Mogao Caves, produced over about a thousand years.
Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting (Düsseldorfer Malerschule) comprises over a thousand painters trained at the Düsseldorf academy from 1819 to 1918, most influential between 1830 and 1870.
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting, also called 17th-century Dutch painting, is the art of the Dutch Republic from 1588 to 1672, defined by a mass middle-class art market, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals.
Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting, also called the Flemish Primitives, is 15th- and 16th-century painting of the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands, begun by Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck around 1420 and known for luminous oil painting, detailed realism, and the Ghent altarpiece.
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang (Japanese Shōshō hakkei) is a set of eight Chinese landscape-painting subjects, first painted by Song Di in the late eleventh century.
Emakimono
Emakimono (絵巻) is a Japanese narrative handscroll format combining text and pictures. This form arrived in Japan around the sixth century and flourished during the Heian and Kamakura periods.
Ethiopian church mural painting
Ethiopian church mural painting is the tradition of monumental painted wall decoration in the churches of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, with the earliest known works dating to the 12th or 13th century.
Ethiopian church wall painting
Ethiopian church wall paintings are religious murals in Ethiopian Orthodox churches depicting biblical scenes, the Virgin Mary, saints, and angels, a tradition dating from the 4th century AD.
Ethiopian icon diptychs and triptychs
Ethiopian icon diptychs and triptychs are two- and three-panel painted devotional images on wood, often hinged, that spread in fifteenth-century Ethiopia under Emperor Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and typically show the Virgin and Child flanked by archangels.
Ethiopian manuscript illumination
Ethiopian manuscript illumination is the painted decoration of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian manuscripts in Ge'ez, produced from late antiquity to the present with a distinctive palette and vine-like harag ornament.
Fan Kuan
Fan Kuan (范宽, ca. 950–after 1032) was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Northern Song dynasty, active in Shaanxi, best known for the monumental hanging scroll Travelers Among Mountains and Streams.
Farangi-sazi
Farangi-sazi (Persian: فرنگیسازی), literally "making in an Occidental manner," is a style of Persian painting that blends Safavid traditions with European techniques, appearing under Shah ʿAbbās II.
Faras Cathedral paintings
The Faras Cathedral paintings are medieval Christian Nubian wall paintings from Faras, Sudan, rescued by Polish archaeologists in the 1960s and now split between Warsaw and Khartoum.
Fedoskino miniature
Fedoskino miniature is a Russian craft of lacquer miniature painting in oil on papier-mâché, begun near Moscow in 1795, the oldest of the four Russian lacquer centers.
Figure painting
Figure painting (人物画, renwu hua) is the major Chinese painting genre in which the human figure is the principal subject, one of three classical divisions alongside landscape and bird-and-flower painting.
Fishermen
Fishermen, or yufu (渔父), is a standard subject of Chinese literati painting in which the solitary angler symbolizes the scholar recluse, from the Tang dynasty onward.
Flemish Baroque painting
Flemish Baroque painting is the dramatic, colorful 17th-century style of the Catholic Southern Netherlands, shaped by the Counter-Reformation and epitomized by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.
Florentine school
The Florentine school is the painting and sculpture tradition centered in Florence from the late 13th century, conventionally traced to Giotto and a leading force of the Italian Renaissance.
French Baroque painting
French Baroque painting is the 17th-century painting of France, a restrained, classically organized adaptation of the Italian Baroque associated with Louis XIV's Grand Siècle and the Royal Academy.
French genre painting
French genre painting, or peinture de genre, is the branch of French art depicting everyday life, from the Le Nain brothers through Watteau, Chardin, and Greuze to Fragonard.
Fusuma-e
Fusuma-e (襖絵) is the painting applied to fusuma, the opaque sliding partitions of Japanese architecture, part of shōhekiga and reaching its peak in Momoyama- and Edo-period castles and temples.
Fūzokuga
Fūzokuga (風俗画) is a Japanese term for paintings depicting the customs and daily life of social classes, flourishing in the Momoyama and early Edo periods and leading to ukiyo-e.