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Antwerp school
The Antwerp school is a term for the painters, panel makers, dealers, and printers centered on Antwerp, which hosted Europe's first specialized art market in the 16th century.
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Anwar Jalal Shemza, born Anwar Jalal Butt, was a Pakistani-born painter and writer who fused Arabic calligraphy and Islamic motifs with Western geometric abstraction, living in Stafford, England, until his death in 1985.
Aoki Mokubei
Aoki Mokubei (青木木米, 1767–1833) was a Japanese potter and literati painter of late Edo-period Kyoto whose porcelain revived Kyoto ware and, from 1807, Kutani ware in Kanazawa.
Aoki Shigeru
Aoki Shigeru (青木繁, 1882–1911) was a Japanese yōga painter of Meiji Romanticism, best known for A Gift of the Sea of 1904, the first Western-style painting named an Important Cultural Property.
Aphrodite of Knidos
Aphrodite of Knidos (Cnidian Aphrodite, Knidia): lost mid-4th-century BC marble cult statue of nude Aphrodite by Praxiteles, bought by Knidos over Kos, first monumental female nude, known from Roman copies.
Apocalypse Tapestry
The Apocalypse Tapestry (French: Tenture de l'Apocalypse) is a monumental medieval tapestry woven in Paris from 1373 to 1382 for Louis I, Duke of Anjou, illustrating the Book of Revelation.
Apollo 11 stones
The Apollo 11 stones are seven painted stone slabs from the Apollo 11 Cave in southern Namibia, among the oldest known figurative art, at about 30,000 years old.
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625), Carrara marble, 243 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome; commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, assisted by Giuliano Finelli, depicting Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel tree from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Apollo Belvedere
The Apollo Belvedere is a 2nd-century Roman marble statue of Apollo as an archer in the Vatican Museums, long celebrated as the epitome of classical sculpture.
Apollo of Veii
The Apollo of Veii (Apollo di Veio) is an over-life-size Etruscan terracotta statue of the god Apollo, made at Veii around 510–500 BCE and now in Rome's National Etruscan Museum.
Apollo Sauroctonos
Apollo Sauroctonos, Greek for lizard-slayer and also written Apollo Sauroktonos, is a lost bronze Apollo about to kill a lizard, attributed to Praxiteles and known through Roman marble copies.
Apoxyomenos
Apoxyomenos, meaning "scraping himself," is a sculptural type of a nude athlete cleaning himself with a strigil; the famous Vatican marble copies a lost bronze by Lysippos of about 320 BC.
Applied arts
Applied arts: art applied to functional objects such as ceramics, furniture, textiles, and metalwork, distinct from the fine arts; shaped by the Arts and Crafts movement, the Deutscher Werkbund, and Japan's Mingei movement.
April Greiman
April Greiman (born 1948, New York) is an American designer and transmedia artist whose Los Angeles studio Made in Space pioneered the Macintosh as a design medium.
Aqa Mirak
Aqa Mirak (آقا میرک), full name Sayyed Jalal-al-Din Hosayni Esfahani, was a 16th-century Persian painter at the Safavid court of Shah Tahmasp I, famed for animal painting.
Aqa Riza
Aqa Riza (آقا رضا), also known as Aqa Reza Heravi, was a Persian painter trained in the Safavid tradition who served Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir, in Kabul, Allahabad, and Agra.
Aqualad
Aqualad is the name of two DC Comics sidekicks of Aquaman: Garth, Aquaman's Atlantean partner introduced in 1960 and a founding Teen Titan, and Kaldur'ahm from Young Justice.
Aquatint
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique that creates tonal areas resembling watercolor washes, refined in eighteenth-century Britain and used by Francisco Goya in his great print cycles.
Arabesque
Arabesque: intertwining vegetal scrollwork of Islamic art (Italian arabesco, 'in the Arabic style'), also a ballet position on one leg with the other extended behind, and a short fanciful piano piece.
Arabic calligraphy
Arabic calligraphy is the art of writing the Arabic script with flowing strokes, a major art of the Islamic and Arab worlds inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Arahmaiani
Arahmaiani, born 1961 in Bandung, Indonesia, is an Indonesian contemporary artist and pioneer of Southeast Asian performance art whose work addresses Islam, feminism, violence, and ecology.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957) is a Thai contemporary artist and writer based in Chiang Mai, known for video installations addressing mortality, grief, and marginalized lives.
ARC Raiders
ARC Raiders is a third-person PvPvE extraction shooter by Embark Studios (Nexon), released October 30, 2025 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99. Set on an ARC-ravaged Earth, it won Best Multiplayer at The Game Awards 2025 and sold over 14 million copies.
Arcanadea
Arcanadea (アルカナディア) is Kotobukiya's sci-fi fantasy girl plastic model kit series of Dears, launched December 2021 with Lumitea, character design by necömi, Normal/Wilize build modes, 3 mm joint compatibility, and a January 2027 TV anime.
Archangel with Arquebus, Asiel
Archangel with Arquebus, Asiel (Arcángel arcabucero, Asiel Timor Dei) is a colonial baroque painting of the archangel Asiel aiming a harquebus, held in La Paz, Bolivia.
Archie (dog)
Archie was Andy Warhol's dachshund, who accompanied the artist to openings and dined at Ballato's, and the subject of Warhol's 1973 works Archie the Dog (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and (Archie) (Whitney).
Archie Goodwin (comics)
Archie Goodwin (1937–1998), American comic book writer and editor; editor-in-chief at Warren (Creepy, Eerie, Blazing Combat) and Marvel, founder of Epic Comics, writer of Manhunter and Star Wars comics.
Architectural photography
Architectural photography is a genre of photography focused on buildings and structures, spanning documentation, commercial magazine commissions, and fine-art work; Julius Shulman was its most celebrated practitioner.
Ardabil Carpet
The Ardabil Carpet is a large knotted-pile Persian carpet dated by its inscription to 1539-40, made under Iran's Safavid dynasty and held in London's Victoria and Albert Museum since 1893.
Ardagh Chalice
The Ardagh Chalice is an 8th-century silver two-handled chalice found in 1868 in a hoard near Ardagh, County Limerick, Ireland, and now held by the National Museum of Ireland.