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Orcagna
Orcagna was the working name of Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, a Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect documented from 1343 to 1368, regarded as the leading Florentine artist of his time.
Ordinary (heraldry)
Ordinary (heraldry): a simple geometric charge such as the pale, fess, bend, chevron, cross, or saltire; also a reference book of coats of arms organized by blazon for conflict checking.
Orest Kiprensky
Orest Kiprensky (Орест Кипренский, 1782–1836) was a Russian painter and draftsman, regarded as the first artist of Russian Romanticism and the leading master of the Russian romantic portrait.
Oribe ware
Oribe ware (Oribe-yaki) is a Japanese stoneware produced in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, from about 1600 to the 1630s, known for its copper-green glaze and deliberately distorted forms.
Orientalism
Orientalism: Western scholarship on Asian societies and a 19th-century school of painting of the East by Delacroix, Gérôme, and others, redefined by Edward Said's 1978 critique as a system of colonial knowledge.
Origin (comics)
Origin (comics), also known as Wolverine: The Origin, is a Marvel series by Paul Jenkins. It reveals James Howlett, whose powers manifest after his father is murdered.
Orphism (art)
Orphism, or Orphic Cubism, was an abstract Cubist-influenced painting style developed around 1912 in Paris by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka; Guillaume Apollinaire coined the name after Orpheus, linking color-driven abstraction to music.
Orthodox school (Chinese painting)
The orthodox school (正统派) of Chinese painting was the early Qing landscape tradition of the Four Wangs, favored by the imperial court and dominant into the twentieth century.
Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫)
Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫), the "God of Manga" (1928–1989), was a Japanese manga artist and animator who created Astro Boy, Phoenix, and Black Jack, founded Mushi Production, produced Japan's first TV anime series, and drew about 150,000 pages across 700 titles.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a Swedish-born painter and photographer active in Britain who pioneered combination printing, best known for The Two Ways of Life (1857).
Oscar Howe
Oscar Howe, known to his people as Mazuha Hokshina, was a Yanktonai Dakota painter from South Dakota whose 1958 letter challenging defined "Indian art" opened the field to individual expression.
Ose Shango
Ose Shango (Yoruba: oṣé Ṣàngó) is a carved wooden Yoruba dance wand topped with a double axe motif, the primary emblem of devotees of Shango, the thunder deity.
Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967), German-American abstract animator and painter, pioneer of visual music and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), Lumigraph inventor, Fantasia contributor.
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Austrian-born Expressionist painter, printmaker, poet, and playwright; creator of Die träumenden Knaben (1908), psychological portraits, works confiscated as degenerate in 1937, exile in London, later Switzerland.
Osogbo Art School
The Osogbo Art School, also called the Oshogbo School or Osogbo Art Movement, was an informal Nigerian art movement that emerged in Osogbo in the early 1960s.
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999) was an Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, and muralist considered the leading exponent of indigenist expressionism, known for the series Huacayñán and La Edad de la Ira.
Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei
Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei is a 1794 ukiyo-e bust portrait by Tōshūsai Sharaku of kabuki actor Ōtani Oniji III as a scheming servant, one of his mica-ground prints.
Otobong Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga, born 1974 in Kano, Nigeria, is a Nigerian-Belgian artist based in Antwerp whose installations and performances examine land, raw materials, and extraction; she won the 2025 Nasher Prize.
Otto Dix
Otto Dix, full name Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, was a German painter and printmaker known for unsparing depictions of war and a leading New Objectivity figure.
Otto Künzli
Otto Künzli, born 1948 in Zürich, is a Swiss conceptual jeweler in Munich, best known for the 1980 bracelet Gold Macht Blind (Gold Makes You Blind).
Otto Muehl
Otto Muehl was an Austrian painter and action artist and a key member of Viennese Actionism. He founded the Friedrichshof commune and was convicted in 1991 for sexual abuse.
Otto Steinert
Otto Steinert (1915, Saarbrücken – 1978, Essen) was a German photographer, physician, and theorist who founded Subjective Photography and became one of postwar Germany's most influential photography teachers.
Ottoman miniature
Ottoman miniature, called nakış or tasvir in Ottoman usage, is the tradition of small, detailed, brightly colored paintings made in the Ottoman Empire chiefly for court manuscripts.
Ottoman Revival architecture
Ottoman Revival architecture, known in Turkey as the First National Architectural Period, reinterpreted 16th- and 17th-century Ottoman styles in buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ottoman textiles
Ottoman textiles are the woven fabrics, embroideries, and carpets of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century to 1922, centered on court silk brocades and velvets woven chiefly in Bursa.
Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre
Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre (Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre) is a statue of the Virgin Mary found in Cuba's Bay of Nipe in 1612, patroness of Cuba since 1916.
Our Lady of Iviron
Our Lady of Iviron, also called the Portaitissa, is a wonder-working icon of the Virgin Mary kept at the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, where it guards the monastery gate.
Our Lady of Kazan
Our Lady of Kazan (Казанская икона Божией Матери) is a revered Russian Orthodox icon revealed in Kazan in 1579 and associated with the liberation of Moscow in 1612.
Our Lady of Mercy monument, Konotopie
Our Lady of Mercy monument (Monument Matki Bożej Miłosiernej), Konotopie, Poland: 55.6 m reinforced-concrete Virgin Mary statue consecrated 15 August 2026, Europe's tallest Marian monument, funded by Grażyna and Roman Karkosik, designed by Adam Jakub Matejkowski.
Our Lady of the Don
Our Lady of the Don (Донская икона) is a late 14th-century double-sided Russian icon attributed to Theophanes the Greek, kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery.