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Nguyễn Phan Chánh
Nguyễn Phan Chánh (1892–1984) was a Vietnamese painter who founded the modern tradition of Vietnamese silk painting, gaining fame at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
Nguyễn Sáng
Nguyễn Sáng (1923–1988) was a Vietnamese painter counted among the four pillars of modern Vietnamese painting, known for lacquer works such as Party Admission at Điện Biên Phủ.
Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm
Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm (1922–2016) was a Vietnamese painter, one of the four masters of modern Vietnamese painting, best known for lacquer paintings of the Saint Gióng legend and zodiac animals.
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), French inventor also known as Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, creator of heliography and the earliest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, and partner of Daguerre from 1829.
Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–1619) was an English goldsmith-turned-painter and the leading portrait miniaturist of the Elizabethan court, whose portraits of Elizabeth I became her standard likeness.
Nicholas Mukomberanwa
Nicholas Mukomberanwa (1940–2002) was a Zimbabwean sculptor and art teacher, a leading first-generation figure of the Shona stone sculpture movement whose work is held in major collections.
Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon (born 1947, Detroit) is an American photographer known for black-and-white large-format portraiture, above all The Brown Sisters, annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters from 1975 to 2022.
Nicholas of Verdun
Nicholas of Verdun was a goldsmith and enamel painter from Verdun in Lorraine, active 1181 to 1205, best known for the Verdun Altar at Klosterneuburg Abbey and the Shrine of the Virgin in Tournai Cathedral.
Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, 1874–1947), Russian painter, stage designer, and archaeologist known for Himalayan tempera landscapes, Diaghilev's Rite of Spring designs, Central Asian expeditions, and the 1935 Roerich Pact protecting cultural monuments.
Nick Knight (photographer)
Nick Knight (born 1958), also cited as born 1958, is a British fashion photographer, image-maker and founder-director of SHOWstudio, the fashion film website launched in 2000, known for Skinheads (1982), the 1993 Linda Evangelista British Vogue ring-flash cover, music videos for Björk, Lady Gaga and Kanye West, and digital projects such as ikon-1.
Nick Ut
Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut) is a Vietnamese-American photojournalist who spent 40 years at the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1972 "Napalm Girl" photograph.
Nico Minoru
Nico Minoru, alias Sister Grimm, is a Marvel Comics teenage sorceress from Runaways, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. She leads the Runaways and wields the blood-magic Staff of One, which casts each spell only once.
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu (1838–1907) was a Romanian painter, trained in Paris and Barbizon, who introduced plein-air painting to Romania and became the country's national painter with almost 4,000 works.
Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière, also written Largillierre, was a French portrait painter, 1656 to 1746, who painted the French nobility across the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV.
Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) was a Russian-born French painter of the post-war School of Paris, celebrated for thick impasto and a blend of abstraction and figuration.
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), French classical painter active in Rome from 1624; First Painter to Louis XIII in 1640–42; painter of the Seven Sacraments and The Four Seasons; founder of the academic history-painting tradition.
Nicole Williams English
Nicole Williams English, also Nicole Williams-English (born 1983), Canadian model from Newfoundland, 2026 SI Swimsuit cover model and 2023 Rookie of the Year, Nia Lynn swimwear founder, WAGS and The Girls reality star.
Nieuwe Zakelijkheid
Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, meaning "New Objectivity," is the Dutch name for the interwar art movement Neue Sachlichkeit, coined in 1923 and influential in the Netherlands and Flanders.
Nigel Barker (photographer)
Nigel Barker is a British fashion photographer and former model, best known as a 17-season judge on America's Next Top Model (joined 2002, left 2013), host of The Face and Top Photographer, founder of StudioNB in New York, and author of Models of Influence.
Night photography
Night photography is the practice of taking photographs between dusk and dawn, using moon, star, and artificial light, and pushing exposure settings to their extremes.
Night-Shining White
Night-Shining White (照夜白圖, Zhaoyebai tu) is a Tang dynasty ink handscroll of about 750 attributed to Han Gan, showing Emperor Xuanzong's favorite charger straining against its tether, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nighthawks (Hopper)
Nighthawks (1942), Edward Hopper's iconic oil painting of four figures in a fluorescent-lit all-night diner on a Greenwich Avenue corner, held at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1942.
Nightshade (DC Comics)
Nightshade (Eve Eden) is a DC Comics superheroine created by David Kaler and Steve Ditko, debuting in Charlton's Captain Atom #82 (1966). A shadow-manipulating princess of the Land of Nightshades, she joined the Suicide Squad and Shadowpact and inspired Watchmen's Silk Spectre.
Nihon Bijutsuin
Nihon Bijutsuin (日本美術院, Japan Art Institute) is a Japanese nihonga art organization founded by Okakura Tenshin in 1898, best known for its annual Inten exhibition.
Nihonga
Nihonga (日本画, "Japanese painting") is a category of Japanese painting done with brush and ink on silk or paper using mineral pigments bound with animal glue, named in the Meiji era in contrast to Western-style yōga.
Nikandre Kore
The Nikandre Kore is a life-size marble statue of a woman dedicated on Delos in the mid-seventh century BCE, the earliest surviving monumental kore, now in Athens.
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), French-born Franco-American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker; creator of the Nanas, the Tirs shooting performances, the Stravinsky Fountain with Jean Tinguely, and the Tarot Garden in Tuscany.
Niki Taylor
Niki Taylor (Nicole Renee Taylor, born 1975), American supermodel, distinct from the Edinburgh designer and podcast host of the same name. '90s icon: Seventeen cover at 14, Vogue at 15, the Niki Six covers of May 1996, CoverGirl 1992-2000 and 2021, survivor of a 2001 car crash.
Nikki S. Lee (이승희)
Nikki S. Lee (이승희, Lee Seung-Hee, born 1970, Kye-Chang, South Korea) is a Korean artist known for Projects (1997–2001), snapshot photographs of herself embedded in American subcultures, plus Parts and A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee.
Nikkō Bosatsu of Yakushi-ji
Nikkō Bosatsu (日光菩薩, Sun Bodhisattva) is a bronze attendant statue flanking Yakushi Nyorai in Yakushi-ji temple's Main Hall in Nara, Japan, part of a National Treasure triad.