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M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher, 1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist of impossible buildings, tessellations and metamorphoses; printmaker of Relativity, Day and Night, Circle Limit III; born Leeuwarden, Rome-trained, Baarn-based.
M. F. Husain (मक़बूल फ़िदा हुसैन)
M. F. Husain (मक़बूल फ़िदा हुसैन, Maqbool Fida Husain, 1915-2011), the Picasso of India, was a founding Bombay Progressive Artists' Group modernist painter, Golden Bear filmmaker, Padma Vibhushan recipient, exiled in 2006, honored by Qatar's Lawh Wa Qalam museum.
M. V. Dhurandhar
M. V. Dhurandhar (Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar, 1867–1944) was an Indian painter and illustrator of the Bombay School, celebrated for realistic paintings, postcards, and book illustrations of Indian everyday life.
M'hamed Issiakhem
M'hamed Issiakhem (محمد إسياخم; 1928–1985) was an Algerian painter and engraver regarded as a founder of modern Algerian painting, who lost his left arm in a 1943 grenade explosion.
Ma Shouzhen
Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604), also known as Ma Xianglan, was a Chinese courtesan, painter, poet, and playwright of the Ming dynasty, famous for her orchid and bamboo paintings.
Ma-Xia school
The Ma-Xia school is a tradition of Chinese landscape painting named for Southern Song academy painters Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, known for asymmetrical one-corner compositions.
Macabre
Macabre, from the danse macabre or Dance of Death (Totentanz), is the late medieval allegory in which skeletal Death leads people of every rank, from pope to infant, in a dance to the grave; first recorded in Jehan Le Fèvre's 1376 verse and first painted at Les Innocents, Paris, 1424-25.
Macchiaioli
The Macchiaioli were a group of Italian painters active in Florence and Tuscany from about 1855 to the early 1870s who built pictures from patches of color.
MacDowell
MacDowell is an artist residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife Marian; it is the oldest artist residency in the United States.
Macedonian Renaissance
The Macedonian Renaissance is the cultural and artistic revival in the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, 867 to 1056, named by Kurt Weitzmann in 1963.
Macedonian Renaissance manuscript illumination
Macedonian Renaissance manuscript illumination is the classicizing decoration of Byzantine Greek books in Constantinople, chiefly the Paris Psalter and Joshua Roll, from 867 to 1056.
Macro photography
Macro photography is close-up photography at 1:1 or higher reproduction ratio on the sensor, also called photomacrography. Key features are millimeter-scale depth of field, effective aperture shifts, diffraction, focus stacking, macro lenses, and extension tubes.
Madame Yevonde
Madame Yevonde was the professional name of Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975), a London portrait photographer who pioneered color photography in Britain in the 1930s, best known for her 1935 'Goddesses' series.
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.
Mademoiselle Pogany
Mademoiselle Pogany is a portrait sculpture series by Constantin Brancusi depicting the Hungarian painter Margit Pogány, begun in 1912 and reworked over roughly twenty years in three marbles and bronze casts.
Madhubani art
Madhubani art, also called Mithila painting (मिथिला चित्रकला), is a folk painting tradition of the Mithila region of Bihar and Nepal Terai, traditionally made by women on mud walls with natural pigments, GI-tagged in 2007.
Madonna (art)
Madonna (art): depictions of the Virgin Mary, especially the Madonna and Child theme (Italian ma donna, 'my lady'), spanning Byzantine Hodegetria, Gothic Virgo lactans, Renaissance humanized types, and modern works by Munch and Rubens.
Madonna (Munch)
Madonna (Munch): series of five painted versions and prints by Edvard Munch, 1893–1897, also titled Loving Woman or Woman Making Love, showing a nude woman with a red halo; the 1895 lithograph carries a sperm-and-foetus border; one version was stolen in 2004 and recovered in 2006.
Madonna del Parto
Madonna del Parto (Madonna of Childbirth), Piero della Francesca fresco of the pregnant Virgin with two angels, c. 1450–1465, 200x200 cm, painted for Santa Maria a Momentana at Monterchi, Tuscany, now in the town's civic museum after a long relocation dispute.
Madonna of Bruges
The Madonna of Bruges is a marble Virgin and Child by Michelangelo, carved around 1503 to 1505 and displayed in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium.
Maebul
Maebul (마애불) is a Korean term for a Buddhist image carved directly into a natural rock face or boulder; the best-known example is the Seosan Maae Samjonbul, celebrated as the "smile of Baekje."
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Magdalena Abakanowicz (Marta Abakanowicz, 1930–2017), Polish sculptor and fiber artist, creator of the Abakans and headless figurative series such as Backs and The Crowd, and of Agora in Chicago's Grant Park.
Magdalena Górka
Magdalena Górka, Polish cinematographer (born 1977, Pruszków), ASC and PSC member, Łódź Film School graduate. Known for Jack Strong (Camerimage Golden Frog nomination), Netflix's Into the Night, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Echo, and The Brink of War.
Magdalene Odundo
Magdalene Anyango Namakhiva Odundo (born 1950, Nairobi) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist known for hand-built, burnished, unglazed vessels whose forms evoke the human body; she was made a Dame in 2020.
Magik
Magik (Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina, Illyana Rasputin) is a Marvel Comics mutant sorceress, sister of Colossus, debuting in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975). Known for stepping-disc teleportation, the Soulsword, her Limbo captivity under Belasco, the Darkchilde persona, and recent solo series and Marvel Rivals appearances.
Magma (character)
Magma (Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla, alias Allison Crestmere) is a Marvel Comics mutant and Nova Roma princess created by Claremont and McLeod, debuting in New Mutants #8 (1983), with lava and tectonic powers.
Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, with photographers retaining copyright to their images.
Mahamuni Buddha
The Mahamuni Buddha, meaning "the great sage," is a large seated bronze image covered in gold leaf, enshrined in Mandalay, Myanmar, and among the country's most venerated Buddha images.
Maheshamurti
Maheshamurti is the iconographic form of the Hindu god Shiva as the All-god with five heads, best known from the colossal 6th-century three-faced relief at Elephanta.
Mahieka Sharma
Mahieka Sharma (माहिका शर्मा), Indian model, actress, and lifestyle creator; Model of the Year (New Age) at the 2024 Indian Fashion Awards; walked for Sabyasachi, Manish Malhotra, and Anamika Khanna; Kama Ayurveda ambassador; partner of cricketer Hardik Pandya.