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Monomachus Crown
The Monomachus Crown, also spelled Monomachos Crown, is a set of seven gold plaques portraying Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, made in the mid-eleventh century.
Monomakh's Cap
Monomakh's Cap (Шапка Мономаха) is a gold, jewel-encrusted ceremonial cap trimmed with sable that crowned Russia's grand princes and tsars from 1498 until 1682, kept in the Moscow Kremlin.
Monotype
A monotype is a unique print made by applying paint or ink to an unworked plate and transferring the image to paper, yielding one strong impression.
Monster Indian
Monster Indian is a 1968 oil painting by Fritz Scholder depicting a Native American figure in a distorted, expressionist style, an early work of his Indian series.
Monstress (comics)
Monstress is an ongoing Image Comics dark steampunk fantasy by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, debuting November 2015. It follows Maika Halfwolf, linked to an Old God, in an alternate 1900s Asia; winner of 2018 Eisner Awards and the 2017 Hugo for Best Graphic Story.
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne) is the series of paintings and watercolors Paul Cézanne made of the limestone ridge near Aix-en-Provence from the early 1880s to 1906.
Monteleone chariot
The Monteleone chariot is an elaborately bronze-sheathed Etruscan parade chariot from the sixth century B.C., found at Monteleone di Spoleto in 1902 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Montezuma's headdress
Montezuma's headdress, also called the Penacho de Moctezuma, is a sixteenth-century Mexica featherwork headdress of quetzal feathers and gold, held in Vienna's Weltmuseum Wien; its Moctezuma attribution cannot be confirmed.
Montien Boonma
Montien Boonma (มณเฑียร บุญมา, 1953–2000) was a Thai mixed-media and installation artist whose aromatic herbal sculptures made him a leading Thai artist of the 1990s.
Monument to Balzac
The Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin portraying Honoré de Balzac in a dressing gown, commissioned in 1891 and rejected at the 1898 Salon.
Mood board
Mood board: a collage of images, textures, colors, and text conveying a design concept's feeling at a glance; used early in branding, UX, interior, and fashion design; distinct from concept boards, style guides, and storyboards; term entered the OED in the 1980s.
Moon jar
The Joseon white porcelain moon jar (달항아리, dalhangari) is a large, globular, unadorned white porcelain jar made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), named for its resemblance to a full moon.
Moon Museum
Moon Museum: 1969 ceramic wafer (19 x 13 mm) with six drawings by Myers, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Novros, Chamberlain, and Oldenburg, fabricated at Bell Labs and reportedly covertly attached to Apollo 12's lunar module, thought to be the first artwork on the Moon.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is a 1941 black-and-white photograph by Ansel Adams, taken near Hernandez, New Mexico, showing a full moon rising over a village church and cemetery.
Morava school
The Morava school (Моравска школа), the last style of medieval Serbian architecture and painting, flourished in the Morava river valleys from the 1370s until 1459.
Morgan Crusader Bible
The Morgan Crusader Bible, also called the Maciejowski Bible, is a thirteenth-century French illuminated picture book of Old Testament scenes, made in Paris in the 1240s.
Moritz Adler
Moritz Adler (1849–1920) was a Czech photographer who ran a commercial studio in Prague from 1881, after starting out in Transylvania, and photographed Bohemian towns.
Morning Sun (painting)
Morning Sun (1952) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Edward Hopper, in the Columbus Museum of Art, showing his wife Jo seated alone on a bed in morning sunlight, gazing out a window.
Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez
The Moroccan zellige and carved plaster workshops of Fez produce zellige, hand-cut glazed tile mosaics, and gebs, carved plasterwork, crafts Fez has kept since medieval times.
Morris Louis
Morris Louis (born Morris Louis Bernstein, 1912–1962) was an American Color Field painter in Washington, D.C., known for pouring diluted acrylic paint onto unprimed canvas.
Mortlake Tapestry Works
The Mortlake Tapestry Works was an English tapestry manufactory established in 1619 at Mortlake, southwest of London, under James I and directed by Sir Francis Crane until 1703.
Mosaic
Mosaic: art of assembling small tesserae of glass, stone, or ceramic into images or patterns, from ancient pavements to Roman micromosaic jewelry; covers tesserae, gold-leaf glass tesserae, pietra dura, and conservation.
Mosaics of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv
The Mosaics of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv are 11th-century glass mosaics covering about 260 square meters of the dome and apse, centered on the Virgin Orans.
Mosaics of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
The Mosaics of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo are sixth-century wall mosaics in a Ravenna basilica, made under King Theodoric and revised after Justinian I's Byzantine reconquest of the city.
Mosaics of the Arian Baptistery
The Mosaics of the Arian Baptistery are early 6th-century dome mosaics in Ravenna, built under King Theodoric for the city's Arian Christian community, showing the baptism of Christ surrounded by the twelve apostles.
Mosaics of the Baptistery of Neon
The mosaics of the Baptistery of Neon are the fifth-century mosaic decoration of Ravenna's Orthodox Baptistery, centered on a dome medallion of the Baptism of Christ.
Moscow Conceptualism
Moscow Conceptualism is an artistic and literary movement that emerged in Moscow's unofficial art scene, influential in the 1970s and 1980s, examining Soviet language, imagery, and everyday experience.
Moscow school of icon painting
The Moscow school of icon painting, a school of Old Russian art of the 14th to 16th centuries, is known for Andrei Rublev and his Trinity.
Moses (Michelangelo)
Michelangelo's Moses, also Mosè di Michelangelo, is a 235 cm marble statue of 1513–1515 for the Tomb of Pope Julius II, installed 1545 in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, famous for its horns from the Vulgate's cornuta.
Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Moses Jacob Ezekiel (1844-1917), also Sir Moses Ezekiel, American Jewish sculptor and Confederate veteran of New Market; Rome-based creator of Religious Liberty, the Arlington Confederate Memorial, and Jefferson and Poe statues.