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Peju Alatise
Peju Alatise (born 1975 in Lagos) is a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist who represented Nigeria at the 2017 Venice Biennale and won the FNB Art Prize.
Peking glass
Peking glass is the glass produced by the imperial glasshouse founded in 1696 in the Qing court's Imperial Workshops in Beijing, and later Chinese glassware made in its style.
Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit
Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, by Rembrandt, 1634, life-size full-length wedding pendants; only such pair in his oeuvre; jointly bought 2016 by the Netherlands and France for €160 million, alternating between Rijksmuseum and Louvre.
Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade, the gaming webcomic by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik launched in 1998, starring Tycho Brahe and Gabe; basis of PAX conventions and Child's Play charity.
Penny Siopis
Penny Siopis (born 1953) is a South African artist of Greek descent, based in Cape Town, whose paintings, installations, and films confront South African history, trauma, and collective memory.
Pensive Bodhisattva (National Treasure 83)
The Gilt-bronze Pensive Bodhisattva is a gilt-bronze statue of National Treasure No. 83, made in the early 7th century and held at the National Museum of Korea.
Pentti Sammallahti
Pentti Sammallahti (born 1950, Helsinki) is a Finnish photographer known for meticulously hand-printed black-and-white images of people, animals, and landscapes; a benchmark figure in Finnish photography, his work is held by MoMA and the Stedelijk Museum.
People of the 20th Century
People of the 20th Century (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts) is an unfinished photographic project by German photographer August Sander, comprising 619 portraits of German society classified by social type.
Peplos Kore
The Peplos Kore is an Archaic Greek marble statue of a young woman, made around 530 BC and found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1886.
Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty (Patricia Reichardt) is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, first appearing in 1966. She is the strip's standout athlete and a chronically struggling student.
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki (Передвижники, Itinerants or Wanderers): Russian realist painters of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870–1923), founded after the 1863 Academy revolt, who toured exhibitions across the empire led by Kramskoy, Repin, and Surikov.
Performance art
Performance art, also called live art, is art in which the artist's live actions and body are the medium, emerging in the 1960s from Happenings and Fluxus events.
Perseus and Andromeda (Puget)
Perseus and Andromeda is a monumental Carrara marble sculptural group by the French Baroque sculptor Pierre Puget, signed and dated 1684, made for Versailles and held by the Louvre since 1850.
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Perseus with the Head of Medusa (Perseo con la testa di Medusa) is Benvenuto Cellini's bronze of 1545–1554, commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, cast in a single pour as a political manifesto of Medici rule.
Persian art
Persian art: the visual and material art of Iran and Persian-speaking lands from the Neolithic (7th millennium B.C.) through Achaemenian, Sasanian, Islamic, Safavid, Qajar, and modern eras, spanning architecture, manuscript painting, calligraphy, ceramics, metalwork, and carpets.
Persian carpet
Persian carpet: hand-knotted pile carpet from Iran, tied with the asymmetric Senneh knot rather than the Turkish Ghiordes knot. Peak under the Safavids (1501-1739) with royal workshops under Shah Abbas I; exports fell from $2 billion to under $50 million.
Persian miniature
Persian miniature is a courtly form of Persian painting in opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper, which blossomed in the 13th century and peaked under Timurid rule.
Persian tilework
Persian tilework is the architectural use of glazed ceramic tiles on Iranian buildings, practiced from the thirteenth century BC through mosaic faience, luster, and haft-rang techniques.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci: household, finances, patrons and will of the Renaissance painter (1452–1519), documented via catasto records, notebooks, Salaì and Melzi, and the 1519 testament.
Perspective (graphical)
Perspective (graphical) is the system for depicting 3D space on a 2D surface using vanishing points and horizon lines. First demonstrated by Brunelleschi around 1425 and published by Alberti in De Pictura (1435), it spawned projective geometry and 1-, 2-, 3-, and 5-point variants.
Peta Todd
Peta Todd (Peta Louise Todd), English former glamour model and Page 3 girl in The Sun until 2011, Help for Heroes patron, columnist, and wife of cyclist Mark Cavendish, married 2013, mother of five.
Peter Beard
Peter Beard (1938-2020) was an American photographer, diarist, and collagist of East African wildlife; author of The End of the Game, founder of Hog Ranch, known for blood-and-ink diary collages.
Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens was a German architect, painter, and designer, a pioneer of industrial design and corporate identity through his AEG work from 1907, including the Turbine Factory.
Peter Blake (artist)
Sir Peter Blake (born 1932, Dartford, Kent) is a British Pop Art pioneer, painter, collagist, and printmaker, co-creator with Jann Haworth of the Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper album cover; CBE 1983, knighted 2002; distinct from the New Zealand sailor of the same name.
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), Russian jeweler of Huguenot descent, headed the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg, created the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanovs, held court jeweler titles from Russia, Britain, Sweden-Norway, and Siam, and fled revolutionary Russia in 1918.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a British painter born in Edinburgh in 1959, known for atmospheric, memory-laden landscape paintings influenced by his peripatetic life in Trinidad, Canada, and London.
Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar was an American photographer whose black-and-white portraits of 1970s and 1980s downtown New York artists won fame only after his death from AIDS in 1987.
Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely, born Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680), was a Dutch-born Baroque portrait painter who became the leading portraitist in England, defining the Restoration court under Charles II.
Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, was a German fashion photographer and film director known for unretouched black-and-white images that redefined beauty standards and helped launch the 1990s supermodel era.
Peter Max
Peter Max (Peter Max Finkelstein, 1937-2026), German-born American psychedelic pop artist of 1960s flower power; poster, stamp, and official-event artist; 70 product lines; also known for Statue of Liberty series and commercial controversies.