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Mahishasuramardini of Mamallapuram
The Mahishasuramardini of Mamallapuram is a large seventh-century granite bas-relief on a rock-cut cave temple at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, showing Durga on her lion fighting the buffalo demon Mahishasura.
Mahmoud Farshchian
Mahmoud Farshchian (محمود فرشچیان, 1930–2025) was an Iranian master of Persian miniature painting who created a distinctive modern school of Iranian painting; his works are held by museums worldwide.
Mahmoud Mokhtar
Mahmoud Mokhtar (محمود مختار, 1891–1934) was an Egyptian sculptor, the founding figure of modern Egyptian sculpture, best known for Nahdat Misr (Egypt's Awakening), unveiled in Cairo in 1928.
Mahmoud Said
Mahmoud Said (محمد سعيد, 1897–1964) was an Egyptian painter and judge from Alexandria, widely regarded as a founder of modern Egyptian art; his villa is now the Mahmoud Said Museum.
Mai Trung Thứ
Mai Trung Thứ (梅忠恕), known by his artist name Mai-Thu, was a Vietnamese painter (1906–1980) who spent most of his career in France, known for portraits of women and children on silk.
Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻)
Maison Ikkoku (めぞん一刻) is Rumiko Takahashi's romantic-comedy manga, serialized in Big Comic Spirits 1980–1987 (162 chapters, 15 volumes), about student Yusaku Godai and widowed landlady Kyoko Otonashi; over 25 million volumes in circulation.
Majapahit art
Majapahit art is the visual art of the East Javanese kingdom of Majapahit (1293–1527), the last Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Java, known for slender sculpture and red brick temples.
Maki-e
Maki-e (蒔絵) is a Japanese lacquer technique in which gold or silver powder is sprinkled onto wet lacquer to fix a design, developed from the Nara period.
Makinti Napanangka
Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930 – 2011) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian painter from the Western Desert, one of the leading women artists of the Papunya Tula cooperative.
Makonde sculpture
Makonde sculpture is the woodcarving tradition of the Makonde people of northern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, spanning ritual mapiko masks and modern blackwood shetani and ujamaa styles.
Makuzu Kōzan
Makuzu Kōzan (宮川香山, 1842–1916), born Miyagawa Toranosuke, was a Japanese potter who founded the Makuzu kiln in Yokohama in 1871, known for high-relief decoration and Makuzu ware, a leading Meiji export ceramic.
Malagan carving
A malagan carving, also spelled malangan or malanggan, is a painted wooden sculpture made for the mortuary ceremonies of northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Malangatana Ngwenya
Malangatana Ngwenya (1936–2011), known mononymously as Malangatana, was a Mozambican painter, poet, and sculptor whose visionary works critiqued colonial rule and made him Mozambique's most prominent visual artist.
Maleesha Kharwa
Maleesha Kharwa, the "princess from the slum", is an Indian model and influencer from Mumbai's Dharavi/Bandra slums, discovered in 2020 by Robert Hoffman, face of Forest Essentials' Yuvati collection, and Vogue and Cosmopolitan cover model.
Malian studio photography
Malian studio photography is the commercial portrait tradition centered on Bamako from the 1930s, recognized as fine art in the 1990s through Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.
Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé was a Malian photographer known as the "Eye of Bamako" for black-and-white images of youth culture, nightlife, and studio portraits from the late 1950s onward.
Maliwawa Figures
Maliwawa Figures are a style of Aboriginal rock painting in northwest Arnhem Land, Australia, likely 6,000 to 9,400 years old and first described in 2020.
Maman (sculpture)
Maman is a 1999 monumental spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, honoring her tapestry-weaver mother. The steel original opened Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2000; bronze, marble, and stainless steel casts stand in Bilbao, Tokyo, Ottawa, Doha, Arkansas, and Korea.
Mamluk enamelled glass
Mamluk enamelled glass is luxury glassware decorated with enamel paints and gold, made in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for mosque lamps of the fourteenth century.
Mamluk metalwork
Mamluk metalwork is silver- and gold-inlaid brass and bronze produced under the Mamluk sultans, mainly in Cairo and Damascus, from about 1250 until the Ottoman conquest of 1517.
Mamluk mosque lamps
Mamluk mosque lamps are enameled and gilded glass hanging lamps made in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate to light mosques, and are among the most celebrated works of Islamic glassmaking.
Mamluk Qur'an illumination
Mamluk Qur'an illumination is the painted and gilded decoration of Qur'an manuscripts produced in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), known for geometric star-polygon frontispieces and monumental muhaqqaq calligraphy.
Man and Horse
Man and Horse (人骑图) is a 1296 handscroll of a red-robed rider on horseback by the Yuan dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Man at the Crossroads
Man at the Crossroads, also known as El hombre en la encrucijada, was Diego Rivera's 1933 Rockefeller Center RCA-lobby fresco, destroyed in February 1934 after he refused to remove Lenin's portrait; repainted as Man, Controller of the Universe in Mexico City.
Man Changing into Thunderbird
Man Changing into Thunderbird is a 1977 six-panel painting by the Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, showing his transformation into the Thunderbird, ending with his spirit name Copper Thunderbird.
Man Ray
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890–1976), American Dada and Surrealist artist in New York and Paris, inventor of the rayograph photogram, solarization innovator, maker of The Gift and Le Violon d'Ingres.
Man's Cloth
Man's Cloth is a large 2001 metal wall hanging by Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, made from recycled liquor bottle-top wrappers stitched with copper wire, and was his first work using bottle caps.
Man's Love Story (Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri)
Man's Love Story is a series of paintings by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, best known through his large 1978 canvas in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Mandala of the Two Worlds
The Mandala of the Two Worlds (Ryōkai mandara), also called Ryōbu mandara, is a pair of hanging paintings—the Womb World and Diamond World Mandalas—central to Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
Manga
Manga (漫画), Japanese comics, is a multimodal narrative medium read right-to-left, built on panels, gutters, and reader closure. Distinct in panel layout, born from Taishō-era story manga, it now makes up about 45% of Japan's publishing market.