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Minbar of Saladin
The Minbar of Saladin is a carved wooden pulpit installed in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187, burned in 1969 and rebuilt in 2007.
Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque
The minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque (منبر الكتبية) is a monumental carved wooden pulpit begun in 1137 in Córdoba for the Kutubiyya Mosque of Marrakesh.
Ming court painting
Ming court painting (明代宮廷繪畫) is the painting made by professional artists serving the Ming imperial court in China (1368–1644), which revived the realistic Southern Song academic style and flourished from 1426 to 1505.
Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain
Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain (明代青花瓷) is Chinese porcelain of 1368 to 1644 painted with cobalt under a transparent glaze and fired once, made chiefly at Jingdezhen and exported worldwide.
Ming dynasty temple sculpture
Ming dynasty temple sculpture is the Buddhist and Daoist painted clay statuary produced for Chinese temple halls from 1368 to 1644, with its finest surviving ensembles in Shanxi.
Ming the Merciless
Ming the Merciless, Emperor Ming of Mongo, is the arch-villain of Alex Raymond's 1934 Flash Gordon comic strip, modeled on Fu Manchu, played by Charles Middleton in the 1936-1940 serials and Max von Sydow in 1980.
Ming typefaces
Ming typefaces (Minchōtai 明朝体, Songti, Mingti) are the serif style of East Asian typography: thin horizontals, thick verticals, triangular uroko serifs, born of Ming woodblock printing and standardized by William Gamble's 1860s Shanghai electrotype.
Minhwa
Minhwa (민화, literally "people's painting") is Korean folk painting, brightly colored symbolic pictures made largely by anonymous painters for everyday decoration during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910).
Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
Miniature (illuminated manuscript): a small, detailed painting in an illuminated manuscript, from Latin minium (red lead). Also called manuscript miniature painting; peaked in Europe (Paris, Burgundy) and the Islamic world, 13th–17th centuries.
Minimalism
Minimalism, or Minimal Art, is a 1960s American movement featuring simple geometric forms and industrial materials like aluminum. Key figures include Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt.
Minnie Pwerle
Minnie Pwerle (about 1910 to 1922 to 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Utopia region known for bold linear paintings of women's ceremony designs.
Minnie Weisz
Minnie Weisz (Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz), British photographic artist born 1972, sister of Rachel Weisz; known for turning derelict King's Cross buildings and European interiors into camera obscuras, documented with a medium format Hasselblad.
Minor White
Minor White, an American photographer and teacher, co-founded Aperture magazine in 1952, developed the photographic sequence, and taught at MIT, where he founded the Creative Photography Laboratory.
Minoru Yamasaki
Minoru Yamasaki (山崎実), American architect (1912–1986) of the World Trade Center twin towers and Pruitt-Igoe; New Formalism founder, Time cover 1963, Detroit-based.
Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi (میرعلی تبریزی), full name Ali ibn Hasan, was a Persian calligrapher active in Tabriz around 1370–1410 under the Jalayirid sultan Ahmad, credited with inventing the nasta'liq script.
Mir Emad Hassani
Mir Emad Hassani (میرعماد حسنی) was a celebrated Persian calligrapher of the Safavid era, born in Qazvin around 1554, who brought nastaʿlīq script to its height.
Mir Mohsun Navvab
Mir Mohsun Navvab (Mir Möhsün Nəvvab, 1833–1918) was an Azerbaijani polymath of Shusha, active as a poet, painter, and musicologist; his treatise Vüzuhül-ərqam is a key source on the Karabakh mugham tradition.
Miroku Bosatsu at Chūgū-ji
The Miroku Bosatsu of Chūgū-ji (Bosatsu hanka-zō) is a National Treasure wooden statue kept at Chūgū-ji nunnery in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, dated to around 650.
Miroku Bosatsu of Hōryū-ji
Miroku Bosatsu (弥勒菩薩), the Japanese name for the bodhisattva Maitreya, appears at Hōryū-ji in Nara as a clay sculpture group on the pagoda's south face.
Miroku Buddha of Kōfuku-ji
The Miroku Buddha of Kōfuku-ji (木造弥勒如来坐像) is a seated statue of Miroku Nyorai made around 1212 under Unkei's direction for the Northern Round Hall of Kōfuku-ji in Nara, designated a National Treasure.
Miroslav Tichý
Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) was a Czech photographer and painter from Kyjov, Moravia, known for photographs of the town's women made with homemade cameras built from shoeboxes, tin cans, and Plexiglas lenses.
Miscellaneous Flowers
Miscellaneous Flowers (Zahua tu juan, 杂花图卷) is a Ming dynasty ink handscroll of flowers, trees, and vegetables by Xu Wei, the representative work of his large-idea flower painting.
Mischa Richter (photographer)
Mischa Richter is an American photographer and filmmaker, grandson of New Yorker cartoonist Mischa Richter (1910-2001). Born in Windsor, England, raised in Provincetown; editorial work in Vogue and Esquire, National Portrait Gallery portraits of Amy Winehouse, and films I Am a Town (2020) and Summer Tour (2025).
Mise en abyme
Mise en abyme, French for "placed in the abyss," is a technique where a work of art contains a smaller element mirroring the whole, like a play within a play.
Mise ware
Mise ware (秘色瓷, "secret color porcelain") is the top grade of Yue kiln celadon, made as imperial tribute ware from the late Tang into the early Northern Song.
Misha
Misha (Мишка, Olympic Mishka), the bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics designed by Victor Chizhikov; first commercially successful sports mascot, flew on Soyuz-29, and famously shed a tear at the closing ceremony.
Mississippian shell engraving
Mississippian shell engraving is the art of cutting designs into marine shell, chiefly circular gorgets, practiced in the southeastern United States from about 1000 to 1600.
Missorium of Theodosius I
The Missorium of Theodosius I is a large ceremonial silver dish, probably made in 388 for the emperor's tenth anniversary, showing him enthroned with his co-rulers.
Mister Mind
Mister Mind (Mr. Mind, Maxivermis Mind) is a tiny telepathic alien worm supervillain created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck in 1943, leader of the Monster Society of Evil and a recurring Shazam/Captain Marvel enemy.
Mitate-e
Mitate-e (見立絵) are Japanese pictures that take subjects from classical literature and legend but portray them in the contemporary fashions of the artist's day, chiefly in Edo-period ukiyo-e prints.