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Our Lady of the Sign
Our Lady of the Sign (Znamenie) is an icon type showing the Virgin with raised hands and Christ as a child in a medallion on her breast.
Our Lady of Vladimir
Our Lady of Vladimir, or Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, is a 12th-century Byzantine icon of the Virgin kept in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Ousmane Sow
Ousmane Sow (1935–2016) was a Senegalese sculptor known for monumental figurative works celebrating African peoples; in 2013 he became the first Black member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Outsider art
Outsider art, also called art brut (French, "raw art"), is art by self-taught creators outside the professional art world; coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1945 and named by Roger Cardinal in 1972.
Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men is the penultimate (11th of 12) story arc of Garth Ennis's comic The Boys, six issues (#60-65) by Dynamite in 2011-2012, art by Russ Braun; its title echoes Tenpole Tudor's 1981 song and a 2020 TV episode.
Owo ivories
Owo ivories are carved elephant-ivory regalia made for the Olowo, king of the Yoruba city-state of Owo in Nigeria, chiefly from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: founded 1860 on Parks Road, Oxford, the world's first purpose-built natural history museum; neo-Gothic Grade 1-listed building, about 7 million specimens, Megalosaurus bucklandii and the Oxford Dodo, free daily entry.
Oxus Treasure
The Oxus Treasure is a hoard of about 180 gold and silver objects from Achaemenid Persia, found near the River Oxus around 1877–1880 and held mostly in the British Museum.
Pablita Velarde
Pablita Velarde, whose Tewa name Tse Tsan means "Golden Dawn," was a Tewa painter from Santa Clara Pueblo known for paintings of Pueblo life made with hand-ground earth pigments.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor, founder with Georges Braque of Cubism. Key facts: Blue and Rose periods 1901–1906, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, Guernica 1937, career centered in France.
Pachacamac Idol
The Pachacamac Idol (Ídolo de Pachacamac) is a carved wooden post from the Pachacamac sanctuary in Peru, found in 1938 and held at the Pachacamac Site Museum.
Pachirisu (パチリス)
Pachirisu (パチリス), the EleSquirrel Pokémon, is an Electric-type, non-evolving Pokémon No. 417 from Diamond/Pearl, known for Sejun Park's 2014 World Championship win using Follow Me, Nuzzle, Super Fang, and Volt Absorb.
Paddy Bedford
Paddy Bedford, known to his Gija kin as Nyunkuny, was an Australian Aboriginal painter of the East Kimberley who began painting at about age 76.
Page layout
Page layout: arrangement of text, images, and whitespace on a page or screen, built on grids and typographic hierarchy; produced with desktop publishing tools like InDesign and, on the web, CSS layout under WCAG reflow rules.
Pahari painting
Pahari painting is a form of Indian miniature painting from the Himalayan hill kingdoms, produced from Jammu to Garhwal between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Painted Coffin of Lady Dai
The Painted Coffin of Lady Dai (马王堆彩绘棺) is the black-ground lacquered coffin from Mawangdui Tomb 1 at Changsha, Hunan, made for Xin Zhui, who died in 168 BCE.
Painted Lacquer Screen from the Tomb of Sima Jinlong
The Painted Lacquer Screen from the Tomb of Sima Jinlong (司马金龙墓漆画屏风) is a set of lacquer screen panels painted around 484 and excavated in 1965 near Datong, Shanxi.
Painting
Painting: applying a pigmented fluid medium to a support, also called painting. Pigment suspended in a binder; media include oil, acrylic, watercolor, fresco, tempera; structure is support, ground, paint, varnish; conservation is non-invasive and reversible.
Painting of the Five Hundred Arhats
Painting of the Five Hundred Arhats (오백나한도) is a Buddhist painting genre depicting the five hundred arhats, the Buddha's enlightened disciples, best known in Korea for scrolls painted in 1235 and 1236.
Paintings by Adolf Hitler
Paintings by Adolf Hitler: watercolors and drawings made mainly in Vienna and Munich (1908–1914) and as a WWI soldier; twice rejected by the Vienna Academy; 80–90% architectural subjects; many forgeries; Linz Collection of 4,747 looted works.
Pala bronze sculpture
Pala bronze sculpture is the tradition of small bronze and brass images of Buddhist and Hindu deities cast in Bihar and Bengal under the Pala dynasty, 8th to 12th centuries.
Pala d'Oro
The Pala d'Oro is the golden altarpiece behind the high altar of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, adorned with cloisonné enamels, gems, and pearls, and reworked from 976 to 1345.
Pala school of manuscript painting
The Pala school of manuscript painting was a Buddhist palm-leaf illumination tradition of the Pala empire in eastern India, from the 8th to 12th centuries.
Pala school of sculpture
The Pala school of sculpture is the 8th- to 12th-century style of stone and bronze image-making that developed in Bihar and Bengal under the Pala dynasty.
Pala style in Tibetan art
The Pala style in Tibetan art, known as the Pala-Tibetan or Kadampa style, is a painting and sculpture tradition adopted from eastern India in the 11th to 14th century.
Palaiologan manuscript illumination
Palaiologan manuscript illumination is the illustrated book production of the last Byzantine period, from 1261 to 1453, marked by a new naturalism unknown in earlier Byzantine art.
Palekh miniature
Palekh miniature is a Russian folk craft of miniature painting in egg tempera on lacquered papier-mâché boxes, developed by former icon painters in the settlement of Palekh from the early 1920s.
Palenque sarcophagus lid
The Palenque sarcophagus lid is a carved limestone slab, about six tonnes, sealing the tomb of Maya ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal at Palenque, Mexico, around 683 CE.
Pallas Athena (Klimt)
Pallas Athena (Pallas Athene) is Gustav Klimt's 1898 oil on canvas, 75 × 75 cm, in the Wien Museum: an armored, frontal Athena with Medusa aegis and Nuda Veritas, the programmatic image of the Vienna Secession.
Pallava sculpture
Pallava sculpture is the stone and bronze sculpture of the Pallava dynasty of south India, 7th to 9th centuries, best known for the rock-cut monuments of Mamallapuram.