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Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) is Jacques-Louis David's five-version equestrian series of Napoleon, 1801–1805, a Spanish commission he painted without sittings; versions hang at Malmaison, Charlottenburg, Versailles, and Vienna.
Naryshkin Baroque
Naryshkin Baroque (Нарышкинское барокко), also called Moscow Baroque, is a Russian architectural style of the 1690s and early 1700s combining Old Russian building traditions with European Baroque techniques.
Nasreen Mohamedi
Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990) was an Indian artist known for monochromatic, line-based abstract drawings on paper, regarded as one of the significant artists of post-Independence India.
Nasrid art
Nasrid art is the art and architecture of the Nasrid dynasty of Granada (1232–1492), the last Muslim rulers of Iberia, best known for the Alhambra.
Nastaliq (نستعلیق)
Nastaliq (نستعلیق), also called nasta'liq, is a fourteenth-century Persian calligraphic script combining naskh and ta'liq, attributed to Mir Ali Tabrizi; it became the preferred hand for Persian poetry in Iran and for Urdu in Pakistan.
Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Goncharova (Наталья Гончарова, 1881–1962) was a Russian painter and stage designer who led the Moscow avant-garde and became a principal designer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Natalia Vodianova (Наталья Михайловна Водянова)
Natalia Vodianova (Наталья Михайловна Водянова), born 1982 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian supermodel nicknamed Supernova, founder of the Naked Heart Foundation, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, ex-wife of Justin Portman, wife of Antoine Arnault.
Natalie Jeremijenko
Natalie Jeremijenko is an Australian-born artist and engineer known for the Environmental Health Clinic at New York University and installations turning environmental data into public participation.
Nataraja, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) is a late 11th-century Chola-period copper-alloy sculpture of Shiva dancing in a ring of flames, made in Tamil Nadu.
Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus, American interior designer, author, and TV personality; founder of Nate Berkus Associates (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles); rose to fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosts HGTV shows with husband Jeremiah Brent, and licenses home collections.
Nate Grey
Nate Grey, aka X-Man, is a Marvel Comics Omega-level mutant created by Mister Sinister from Cyclops and Jean Grey's DNA in the Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295); an alternate Cable who debuted in X-Man #1 (March 1995) and later created the Age of X-Man.
National Cartoonists Society
National Cartoonists Society (NCS), professional cartoonists' organization founded March 1, 1946 in New York; Rube Goldberg first president; bestows the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year; over 500 members worldwide.
National emblem of East Germany
National emblem of East Germany (Staatswappen der DDR): hammer and compasses in a grain wreath with black-red-gold ribbon; on the GDR flag from 1959; removed from buildings by Volkskammer order in 1990.
National Institute of Design
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad: India's national design school founded September 1961 from the Eames India Report, an Institution of National Importance under the NID Act 2014, with campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru.
National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland (Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann), Ireland's national museum established by the 1877 Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, with free sites at Kildare Street, Collins Barracks, Merrion Street, and Turlough Park, holding over two million archaeological objects.
Nature photography
Nature photography is a genre devoted to plants, animals, landscapes, and natural phenomena, serving both as an art form and as a tool of science and conservation.
Naum Gabo (Наум Габо)
Naum Gabo (Наум Габо), born Naum Pevsner (1890–1977), Russian-American Constructivist sculptor and theorist, co-author of the 1920 Realistic Manifesto, pioneer of transparent plastic and kinetic sculpture, creator of the 25-meter Rotterdam Bijenkorf construction.
Naumburg Founder Figures
The Naumburg Cathedral donor figures are twelve life-size sculptures of medieval nobles in the west choir of Naumburg Cathedral, Germany, created by the Naumburg Master up to 1249.
Nazarene movement
The Nazarene movement (Lukasbund, Brotherhood of Saint Luke): German Romantic religious painters founded in Vienna in 1809 by Overbeck and Pforr, active in Rome, revivalists of Dürer, Perugino, and Raphael, distinguished from the Church of the Nazarene.
Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are large geoglyphs of animals, plants, and geometric figures made on Peru's arid coastal plain south of Lima between 500 BC and AD 500.
Nazi architecture
Nazi architecture: the building production of Nazi Germany 1933–1945, dominated by monumental classicism under Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer, including the unrealized Germania plan for Berlin, the New Reich Chancellery, Tempelhof, and the Nuremberg rally grounds.
Ndebele art
Ndebele art is the visual art tradition of the Ndebele people of South Africa, expressed chiefly in geometric house-wall murals and beadwork, both created exclusively by women.
Ndebele house painting
Ndebele house painting, known traditionally as umgwalo, is a South African art in which Ndebele women paint house walls with bold geometric patterns, carried worldwide by artist Esther Mahlangu.
Ndop
A ndop is a wooden royal portrait sculpture of a king (nyim) of the Kuba kingdom, in present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, seated cross-legged on a plinth.
Neal Adams
Neal Adams (1941–2022), American comic book artist for DC and Marvel, also known for Continuity Associates. Redefined Batman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, and the X-Men with realistic art; co-created Ra's al Ghul, Man-Bat, John Stewart; led creators' rights advocacy.
Nebra sky disc
The Nebra sky disc (Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) is an Early Bronze Age bronze disc with gold sun, crescent, and star symbols, buried near Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, around 1600 BC.
Ned Leeds
Ned Leeds (Edward Leeds) is a Marvel Comics Daily Bugle reporter created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #18 (1964); revealed as a brainwashed Hobgoblin stand-in for Roderick Kingsley, and the name of Peter Parker's MCU best friend played by Jacob Batalon.
Nefertiti Bust (نفرتيتي)
Nefertiti Bust (نفرتيتي), also called Bust of Queen Nefertiti, ÄM 21300: painted limestone portrait of Akhenaten's queen, found 1912 by Borchardt at Amarna in Thutmose's workshop, displayed in Berlin's Neues Museum since 1924 and contested by Egypt.
Negative (photography)
A photographic negative is a tonally and chromatically reversed master image on paper, glass, or film, invented in Talbot's 1835 paper negatives, from which multiple positive prints are made; bases evolved through nitrate, acetate, and polyester.
Negative space
Negative space, or white space, is the unoccupied area around and between the figure in a composition, equivalent to Gestalt ground. Known from Chinese ink painting to Swiss Style typography; carries shape and suppresses competing forms perceptually.