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Nikolai Ge
Nikolai Ge, also known as Mykola Ge, was a Russian and Ukrainian painter of French descent and a founder of the Peredvizhniki, known for "The Last Supper".
Nikolai Lvov
Nikolai Lvov (Николай Львов, 1751–1803) was a versatile Russian architect, poet, and engineer of the Enlightenment who compiled the first broad survey of Russian folk song.
Nikolai von Bismarck
Nikolai von Bismarck (born 1986, London) is a British-German photographer, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, known for The Dior Sessions and The Fendi Set, portrait and reportage work, and experimental processes like collodion wet plate and expired Polaroid.
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Ukrainian: Микола Ярошенко, 1846–1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who led the Peredvizhniki and retired as a major-general to paint full time.
Nile Mosaic of Palestrina
The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina is a large Hellenistic floor mosaic of about 150–100 BC depicting the Nile in flood, now shown at the National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina, Italy.
Nine Peaks after Snow
Nine Peaks after Snow (九峰雪霁图) is a 1349 hanging scroll of snowy peaks near Songjiang by Yuan master Huang Gongwang, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Ninomaru Palace Paintings
The Ninomaru Palace Paintings (二の丸御殿障壁画) are the wall and sliding-door paintings of the Ninomaru Palace at Nijō Castle in Kyoto, painted by Kano Tan'yū and the Kano school for the 1626 renovation.
Nishiki-e
Nishiki-e (錦絵, "brocade pictures") are multicolored Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, invented in 1765 in Edo by designer Suzuki Harunobu and standard through the Edo period.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983, Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based painter of layered works on paper combining acrylic, collage, and photo transfers of Nigerian imagery; MacArthur Fellow (2017) and painter of the first official joint Obama portrait (2026).
Nkishi
Nkishi is the Songye term for a ritually empowered wooden power figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, activated by a ritual specialist called an nganga.
Nkondi
Nkisi nkondi is a carved wooden power figure of the Kongo peoples of Central Africa in which nails and blades are driven to activate a spirit that heals and punishes wrongdoers.
No. 5, 1948
No. 5, 1948, Jackson Pollock's Abstract Expressionist drip painting in oil, enamel and aluminum paint on fiberboard (243.8 x 121.9 cm); reported sold privately for a record $140 million in 2006.
Noah Dillon
Noah Dillon (born 1994, Durango, Colorado) is a Los Angeles artist, photographer, and musician; founder of The Hellp, Yale Poynter Fellow, Rosalía's LUX photographer. Also the name of a New York art critic.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki, born in Tokyo in 1940, is a Japanese photographer known for "I-photography," erotic imagery, and street pictures, with more than 500 published books.
Nok terracotta
Nok culture sculpture is the body of terracotta figures made by the Iron Age Nok culture of central Nigeria, the earliest known figurative sculptural tradition in sub-Saharan Africa.
Norman architecture
Norman architecture: the Romanesque style of the Normans in Normandy, England (post-1066), and Sicily; semicircular arches, massive pillars, Durham Cathedral, White Tower, Arab-Norman Palermo.
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958) was an American stage and industrial designer who popularized streamlining with his book Horizons and the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Norman Catherine
Norman Catherine (born 1949) is a South African painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for comical, macabre works confronting apartheid through dark humor and surrealistic imagery; his work is held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1879–1969) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, and writer for The Bulletin, best known for his 1918 children's classic The Magic Pudding.
Norman Parkinson
Norman Parkinson (born Ronald William Parkinson Smith, 1913–1990) was a British fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, remembered for lively, humorous images shot outdoors on location.
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), American painter and illustrator of everyday American life. Saturday Evening Post covers 1916–1963, over 300 covers; Four Freedoms series 1943; later civil-rights work for Look, including The Problem We All Live With.
North American Indian Portfolio
The North American Indian Portfolio is a book of 25 hand-colored lithographs after paintings by George Catlin, published in London in 1844 from his travels among Plains tribes.
North Doors of the Florence Baptistery
North Doors of the Florence Baptistery (Porta Nord del Battistero): gilded bronze doors with 28 quatrefoil reliefs of Christ's life, made by Lorenzo Ghiberti 1403–1424 after winning the 1401 Arte di Calimala competition over Brunelleschi; originals in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
Northeaster
Northeaster is an 1895 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting storm waves breaking against the rocky Maine coast at Prouts Neck, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Northern and Southern School
The Northern and Southern School (南北宗论) is a theory of Chinese landscape painting proposed by Dong Qichang, dividing painters into a literati Southern and a professional Northern school.
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics
Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classics (北齐校书图) is a Song dynasty handscroll on silk attributed to Yang Zihua, showing the 556 collation of the classics under Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi.
Northern Qi sculpture
Northern Qi sculpture (北齊造像) is the Buddhist statuary of northern China's Northern Qi dynasty, 550–577, known for full-bodied Buddhas in thin, clinging Gupta-style robes, famously unearthed at Qingzhou.
Northern Renaissance
Northern Renaissance: art movement of the late 14th–16th centuries north of the Alps (Low Countries, Germany, France, England), known for oil painting perfected by Jan van Eyck, meticulous realism, printmaking by Dürer and Holbein, and Reformation-era genre subjects.
Northern Song monumental landscape
Northern Song monumental landscape, or shanshui hua, is grand-format Chinese ink landscape painting of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), typified by towering silk hanging scrolls with a dominant central mountain.
Norval Morrisseau
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), an Anishinaabe painter from Ontario who signed his work Copper Thunderbird, founded the Woodland School and is called the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada.