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Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat of Antwerp; ran a workshop of about 25 assistants producing roughly 2,000 works; court painter to Archdukes Albert and Isabella, knighted by Charles I, married Hélène Fourment in 1630.
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos, born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos, was an American ceramicist whose aggressive abstract clay sculptures reshaped postwar American ceramics and influenced artists like Ken Price.
Petroglyph
Petroglyph: rock image made by carving, pecking, or abrading a rock surface, distinct from painted pictographs. Found worldwide; oldest American examples date to about 14,800 years ago; no exact dating method exists.
Petrus Christus
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1425–1475/76) was a Flemish painter who settled in Bruges in 1444 and became its leading painter between Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling.
Petrykivka painting
Petrykivka painting (Петриківський розпис) is a Ukrainian folk art of ornamental floral painting that arose in the 19th century in the village of Petrykivka, painted freehand without a preliminary sketch.
Pexels
Pexels is a free stock photo and video website under the Pexels license (commercial use, no attribution), owned by Canva since 2019 as Canva Germany GmbH, with a REST API limited to 200 requests per hour and a ban on generative AI uploads.
Phallic graffiti
Phallic graffiti: drawings or carvings of penises on walls and objects, from Paleolithic decorated batons and apotropaic Pompeii inscriptions to modern latrinalia and Brussels street art.
Phemba
Phemba, or pfemba, is a carved wooden mother-and-child maternity figure made mainly by the Yombe, a Kongo people of the Mayombe region of Central Africa.
Phidias
Phidias (Φειδίας, Pheidias), Athenian sculptor active c. 465–425 BCE, directed the Parthenon sculptures, made the gold-and-ivory Athena Parthenos and the Zeus at Olympia, a Seven Wonder; no original survives.
Philip Guston
Philip Guston (1913–1980) was a Canadian-born American painter who moved from Abstract Expressionism to cartoon-like figuration, best known for his 1970 paintings of hooded figures.
Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths (1936–2008) was a Welsh photojournalist best known for Vietnam Inc. (1971), a critical photographic account of the Vietnam War. He served as president of Magnum Photos from 1980 to 1985.
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter known for large studio paintings of nude models, which helped revive figure painting in the United States from the 1960s.
Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Brussels-born French Baroque painter, court portraitist of Richelieu and Louis XIII, founding member of the 1648 Royal Academy, and leading painter of Jansenist Port-Royal.
Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman (1906–1979), Latvian-born American portrait photographer; 101 LIFE covers, Dalí Atomicus, jumpology, Einstein-assisted 1940 emigration, first ASMP president.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (born 1949, Paris) is a French designer and architect of hotels (Royalton, Delano), the Juicy Salif squeezer, democratic design, YOO residences, and ISS interiors.
Philips Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Haarlem, active from 1639 to 1668 and best known for small paintings of horses in battle scenes.
Philomé Obin
Philomé Obin (1892–1986) was a Haitian painter from Bas-Limbé who founded and led the Cap-Haïtien school, painting street scenes, history, and Carnival in a precise style known as "The Obin style".
Phoenix Hall
Phoenix Hall (鳳凰堂, Hōōdō) is the Amida Hall of Byōdō-in temple in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, built in 1053 by regent Fujiwara no Yorimichi, housing Jōchō's Amida statue and depicted on the 10-yen coin.
Photo shoot
Photo shoot (photoshoot): a session in which a photographer takes pictures of a person, product, or scene for publication or commercial use. Covers studio history from 1840, editorial versus commercial shoots, model releases, and AI-era changes.
Photo-Secession
The Photo-Secession was a New York society of photographers founded by Alfred Stieglitz in 1902 to establish photography as a fine art, dissolving in 1917.
Photobook
A photobook is a book in which photographs make up a significant portion of the content, arranged as a cohesive work, and recognized today as a distinct artistic genre.
Photogram
A photogram is a photograph made without a camera or lens, produced by placing objects on light-sensitive paper and exposing it to light; experiments date to 1802.
Photograph
Photograph: an image made by light acting on a sensitive surface or electronic sensor; from Greek phos and graphê, coined by Herschel in 1839. Covers film's negative-to-positive chemistry, digital capture, history from Niépce's heliograph, and archival preservation.
Photographer
Photographer: a person who creates durable images by recording light electronically or chemically. Covers the occupation's history from the 1839 daguerreotype, practice genres, ethics, U.S. employment of 145,000 at a $21.47 median hourly wage, and AI's impact.
Photographic processing
Photographic processing converts exposed film or paper into a stable image via developer, stop bath, fixer, and wash. Key processes are C-41 color negative, E-6 slide, black-and-white, and ECN-2 cinema film; only C-41 and E-6 are fully standardized.
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions is an 1843 book of cyanotype algae images by British botanist Anna Atkins, widely considered the first photographically illustrated book.
Photography
Photography is the art and science of making images with light on light-sensitive film or electronic sensors, publicly introduced in 1839 and used in art, journalism, science, and everyday life.
Photography and the law
Photography and the law covers copyright in photographs (1865 US statute, Burrow-Giles v. Sarony), privacy and publicity rights of subjects, rules for shooting in public versus private places, model and property releases, and how photography's legal history frames AI-generated image disputes.
Photography in India
Photography in India is the history and practice of photography on the subcontinent from the daguerreotype's 1839 arrival, through colonial-era documentation, to modern Indian photojournalism.
Photogravure
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking process in which a photographic image is etched into a copper plate and printed in ink, developed by Karl Klič around 1879.