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Mural Paintings of Muryangsujeon, Buseoksa

The Mural Paintings of Muryangsujeon, Buseoksa are six late Goryeo Buddhist murals from Josadang shrine at Buseoksa temple in Yeongju, South Korea, designated National Treasure No. 46.

Mural Paintings of the Anak Tomb No. 3

The Mural Paintings of the Anak Tomb No. 3 are Goguryeo tomb murals in North Korea, dated by inscription to 357 and renowned for portraits and a procession of over 250 figures.

Mural Paintings of the Deokheung-ri Tomb

The Mural Paintings of the Deokheung-ri Tomb (德興里壁畵古墳) are the wall paintings of a Goguryeo tomb built in 408 CE at Deokheung-ri near Nampo, in present-day North Korea.

Mural Paintings of the Gangseo Great Tomb

The mural paintings of the Gangseo Great Tomb (강서대묘) are late 6th to early 7th-century Goguryeo tomb murals in Nampo, North Korea, widely regarded as the peak of Goguryeo tomb painting.

Mural Paintings of the Muyongchong (Dancing Figures Tomb)

The Mural Paintings of the Muyongchong (무용총, Tomb of the Dancers) are 5th-century Goguryeo tomb murals in Ji'an, China, best known for a dancing scene of fourteen figures.

Murals from the Tomb of Prince Zhanghuai

More than 50 Tang dynasty wall paintings from the tomb of Li Xian, Crown Prince Zhanghuai, excavated near Qianling in 1971–1972 and famous for its Polo Game and Hunting Procession murals.

Murals from the Tomb of Princess Yongtai

The murals from the Tomb of Princess Yongtai (永泰公主墓壁画) are Tang dynasty wall paintings from 706 in the Qianling tomb of Li Xianhui, granddaughter of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian.

Murals of Anak Tomb No. 3

The Murals of Anak Tomb No. 3, also called the Dong Shou tomb, are Goguryeo tomb paintings in Anak, North Korea, dated to about 357 CE.

Murals of Palcho Monastery

The Murals of Palcho Monastery are extensive 15th-century Buddhist wall paintings at Gyantse in central Tibet, a landmark for synthesizing Newar and Chinese styles into a distinctly Tibetan idiom.

Murals of the Cave of the Musicians, Kizil

The murals of the Cave of the Musicians (乐天窟), Cave 38 of the Kizil Grottoes in Xinjiang, China, are Buddhist wall paintings named for music-playing devas.

Murals of the Gyantse Kumbum

The murals of the Gyantse Kumbum are 15th-century wall paintings filling the 73 chapels of the Kumbum stupa at Pelkhor Chode Monastery in Gyantse, Tibet.

Murals of the Hōryū-ji Kondō

The Murals of the Hōryū-ji Kondō (法隆寺金堂壁画) were late 7th- to early 8th-century Buddhist wall paintings at Hōryū-ji temple in Nara, Japan, praised as a treasury of East Asian Buddhist art.

Murals of Wat Bowonniwet

The Murals of Wat Bowonniwet (วัดบวรนิเวศวิหาร) are nineteenth-century wall paintings by the monk-painter Khrua In Khong, the first Thai murals to use Western single-point perspective.

Muramasa (村正)

Muramasa (村正, Sengo Muramasa), swordsmith line of Kuwana, Ise, active from 1501 into the Edo period; famed for sharp Mino/Soshu-style blades and the Tokugawa curse legend.

Muraqqa

A muraqqa (Persian for "album") is an album of mounted paintings, drawings, and calligraphy bound between decorated covers, reaching its peak under Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan.

Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki

The Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki (紫式部日記絵巻) is a set of Japanese illustrated handscrolls from the first half of the 13th century that pictorialize Murasaki Shikibu's court diary.

Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda

The Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda (室生寺五重塔) is an early Heian period wooden pagoda at Murō-ji temple in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan, the smallest five-story pagoda standing outdoors in the country.

Murray Ball

Murray Hone Ball (1939–2017), New Zealand cartoonist, creator of Footrot Flats, Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero, Bruce the Barbarian, and All the King's Comrades; his 1986 film was New Zealand's first animated feature.

Museo del Galeón

Museo del Galeón is a maritime heritage museum at SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Philippines, opened 1 May 2026, centered on a full-scale replica of the galleon Espíritu Santo (Cavite, 1603) and the 1565–1815 Manila–Acapulco galleon trade.

Mustafa Râkım

Mustafa Râkım Efendi, born in Ünye in 1758 and died in 1826, was an Ottoman calligrapher who established the modern jali thuluth school and reformed the imperial tughra.

Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (芥子園畫傳, Jieziyuan huazhuan) is a woodblock-printed Chinese painting manual, first published in 1679 and still widely used today.

Muybridge motion studies

The Muybridge motion studies were photographic experiments by Eadweard Muybridge, 1872 to 1887, first proving that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground.

Mwana pwo

Mwana pwo is a carved wooden Chokwe mask representing an idealized young female ancestor, danced by male performers in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia.

My Bed

My Bed (1998) is Tracey Emin's installation of her own unmade bed with condoms, vodka bottles and stained linens, shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize, sold by Saatchi to Christie's for £2.5 million in 2014, and now on long-term loan to the Tate.

My Egypt

My Egypt is a 1927 painting by Charles Demuth that depicts a grain elevator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and stands among the earliest Precisionist paintings, comparing American industry to the pyramids.

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (Bruderkuss) is a 1990 mural by Dmitri Vrubel on the Berlin Wall, showing Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing.

My Grandparents, My Parents, and I

My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Mis abuelos, mis padres y yo) is a 1936 painting by Frida Kahlo showing herself as a child, fetus, and zygote with her parents and grandparents.

Myaku-Myaku (ミャクミャク)

Myaku-Myaku (ミャクミャク) is the official mascot of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, designed by Kohei Yamashita and named July 18, 2022; a red-and-blue cells-and-water creature whose popularity reversed from early 'creepy' reviews, with licensed goods topping 120 billion yen.

Mykhailo Boichuk

Mykhailo Boichuk (Михайло Бойчук) was a Ukrainian monumental painter whose school, Boichukism, revived Byzantine and folk traditions; he was executed in Stalin's purges in 1937.

Mykola Pymonenko

Mykola Pymonenko (Микола Пимоненко) was a Ukrainian realist painter of Ukrainian village and town life scenes; his painting Hopak won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon.