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Lubok
Lubok (лубок; plural lubki) is a Russian popular print, a woodcut or engraved sheet with bright images and text made for mass audiences from the late 1600s to 1918.
Luca della Robbia
Luca della Robbia (1399/1400–1482) was a Florentine sculptor, inventor of glazed terracotta sculpture and founder of the family workshop that produced such works for about a century.
Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano, nicknamed Luca Fa presto, was a prolific Neapolitan Baroque painter (1634–1705) who served as court painter to Charles II of Spain from 1692 to 1702 and shaped Neapolitan painting into the eighteenth century.
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli, born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura and called Luca da Cortona, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, celebrated for the Last Judgement frescoes at Orvieto Cathedral.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 1472–1553), German Renaissance painter and printmaker born in Kronach, court painter to the Saxon Electors at Wittenberg from 1505, chief artist of the Reformation and friend of Luther.
Lucas Sithole
Lucas Sithole (1931–1994) was a South African sculptor best known for carving figures and animals in indigenous woods; he won the Venice Biennale sculpture prize in 1968.
Lucia Moholy
Lucia Moholy, born Lucia Schulz (1894–1989), was a Czech-born British photographer whose documentary images shaped the Bauhaus's international image; she spent decades recovering negatives taken after she fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud (1922–2011), Berlin-born British figurative painter and grandson of Sigmund Freud, known for intense impasto portraits and nudes, School of London, Order of Merit, 2008 living-artist auction record.
Lucien Clergue
Lucien Clergue (1934–2014) was a self-taught French photographer from Arles who founded the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival and became the first photographer elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Lucien Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro was a French-born painter, wood engraver, and printer, the eldest son of Camille Pissarro, who settled in London in 1890 and ran the Eragny Press with his wife Esther.
Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter and sculptor who founded the postwar movement Spatialism, best known for his pierced and slashed monochrome canvases titled Concetto spaziale.
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke, the Franco-Belgian western comic created by Morris in 1946 and scripted by René Goscinny from 1955, follows the cowboy faster than his shadow with Jolly Jumper; 116 albums, 420 million copies, 36 languages.
Lucy Van Pelt
Lucy Van Pelt (Lucille Van Pelt) is the fussbudget of Charles Schulz's Peanuts, debuted March 3, 1952. Known for her five-cent psychiatric booth, the football gag, tormented brother Linus, unrequited love for Schroeder, and her role as a feminist pop-culture symbol.
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
The Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus, or Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, is an ancient Roman marble sarcophagus of about 250–260 CE, carved in deep relief with a battle between Romans and barbarians.
Ludovisi Gaul
The Ludovisi Gaul, or Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife, is an ancient Roman marble sculpture in Rome showing a Galatian warrior who has slain his wife and now kills himself.
Ludovisi Throne
The Ludovisi Throne (Trono Ludovisi) is a three-sided marble relief carved around 460 BCE, its central panel read as the birth of Aphrodite, now in Rome's National Roman Museum.
Luis Alberto Acuña
Luis Alberto Acuña (full name Luis Alberto Acuña Tapias) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, muralist, and art historian who drew on pre-Columbian and Muisca traditions and helped found the Bachué movement.
Luis de Morales
Luis de Morales, called El Divino, was a Spanish Renaissance painter who worked in Badajoz, Extremadura, becoming the leading Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century.
Luis Meléndez
Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) was a Spanish painter, the leading still-life painter of 18th-century Spain, known for about one hundred still lifes of foodstuffs and kitchen vessels.
Luminism
Luminism is a retrospective term for a mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting style, flourishing roughly 1850 to 1875, characterized by realistic light, concealed brushstrokes, and a quiet mood.
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le déjeuner des canotiers), 1880–81 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir showing fourteen friends at the Maison Fournaise terrace, Chatou; exhibited 1882, bought by Duncan Phillips in 1923, held by The Phillips Collection, Washington.
Luo Ping
Luo Ping (羅聘) was a Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty, the youngest of the Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics, best known for his Ghost Amusement ghost paintings.
Lusterware
Lusterware is ceramic with an iridescent metallic sheen, made by a second low-temperature firing; invented in Iraq around the 9th century and perfected at Kashan, Iran.
Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass cage cup, held by the British Museum, that appears jade-green in reflected light and ruby-red when light shines through it.
Lydenburg Heads
The Lydenburg Heads are seven hollow terracotta sculptures of human and animal form found near Lydenburg, South Africa, dated to about 500 AD, the oldest known African Iron Age artworks from below the equator.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark (1920–1988) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor of the Neo-Concrete movement in Rio de Janeiro, best known for Bichos, hinged aluminum sculptures spectators manipulate.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian descent known for oil paintings of invented Black figures who exist outside any specific time or place.
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger was an American painter and printmaker who spent fifty years in Germany, taught at the Bauhaus from 1919, and built prismatic paintings of churches and seascapes.
Lysippos (Λύσιππος)
Lysippos (Λύσιππος) of Sicyon, fourth-century BC Greek bronze sculptor, exclusive portraitist of Alexander the Great, creator of a new slimmer canon of proportions and about 1,500 works including the Apoxyomenos and Weary Herakles.
Lyubov Popova (Любовь Сергеевна Попова)
Lyubov Popova (Любовь Сергеевна Попова, 1889-1924), Russian avant-garde painter, stage designer, and textile artist; creator of Painterly Architectonics, Meyerhold's constructivist sets, and VKhUTEMAS color professor; distinct from A.S. Popov museum namesakes.