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Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz (1596/97–1660) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and became its leading painter of breakfast and vanitas still lifes.
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, and tapestry designer active in Antwerp and Brussels who ran one of the largest workshops in the Southern Netherlands.
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter born in Rotterdam in 1629, known for sunlit domestic interiors and view-through-doorway compositions painted in Delft.
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographic artist in Cape Town, best known for The Hyena & Other Men, portraits of Nigeria's hyena handlers.
Pieter Mulier
Pieter Mulier, Belgian designer and trained architect, longtime right hand of Raf Simons at Jil Sander, Dior, and Calvin Klein; Alaïa creative director 2021–2026, Versace chief creative officer from July 2026.
Pietra dura
Pietra dura, in Italy also called commesso, is a decorative technique in which shaped colored stones are fitted into a stone backing to form pictorial designs.
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi, born Pietro Falca (1701 or 1702 to 1785), was a Venetian Rococo painter best known for small genre scenes of everyday Venetian life.
Pietro Lorenzetti
Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280, Siena – probably 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and elder brother of Ambrogio, whose Passion cycle at Assisi is among the major achievements of fourteenth-century Italian painting.
Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino (Pietro Vannucci, c. 1450–1523), Umbrian Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel's Delivery of the Keys, master of workshops in Florence and Perugia and teacher of Raphael, called Italy's best painter around 1500.
Pima Air & Space Museum
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, operated by the Arizona Aerospace Foundation; one of the largest non-government-funded aviation museums, opened May 8, 1976, with about 400 aircraft on 80 acres.
Pine Trees
Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu, 松林図屏風) is a pair of six-fold ink screens showing pines in mist, painted in the 16th century by Hasegawa Tōhaku and designated a National Treasure of Japan.
Pingfu Tie
Pingfu Tie (平复帖) is a letter attributed to the Western Jin writer Lu Ji (261–303), the oldest extant authentic Chinese model calligraphy by a named master.
Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio (Pintoricchio), born Bernardino di Betto (Perugia 1454, Siena 1513), Umbrian Renaissance painter who worked with Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, frescoed the Vatican Borgia Apartment for Alexander VI, and painted the Piccolomini Library in Siena.
Pippa Bacca
Pippa Bacca, pseudonym of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (1974–2008), Italian performance and feminist artist, niece of Piero Manzoni; died during the Brides on Tour hitchhiking peace performance near Istanbul.
Piraeus Athena
Piraeus Athena: over-life-size Greek bronze statue of Athena, 2.35 m, ca. 360–340 BC, found 1959 at Piraeus with the Piraeus Apollo and two Artemis bronzes; original of the Louvre's Mattei Athena copy.
Pisa Griffin
The Pisa Griffin is a large bronze Islamic griffin sculpture from around the turn of the 12th century, kept in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Pisa.
Pisanello
Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano) was an Italian painter and medallist, born by 1395, who invented the Renaissance cast portrait medal and led the International Gothic style in Italy.
Piss Christ
Piss Christ (Immersion (Piss Christ)), Andres Serrano's 1987 Cibachrome photograph of a crucifix in urine; NEA controversy, 1997 Melbourne and 2011 Avignon attacks, $314,500 sale.
Pitseolak Ashoona
Pitseolak Ashoona (ᐱᓯᐅᓚ ᐊᓱᓇ) was an Inuit artist in Kinngait, Nunavut, who made over 8,000 drawings and had prints in every Cape Dorset annual collection from 1960.
Pitt Rivers Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford's anthropology and world archaeology museum, founded 1884 from Augustus Pitt-Rivers' gift of about 22,830 objects; over 500,000 items today, displayed by type in dense Victorian galleries, now engaging with its colonial legacy.
Pixiv (ピクシブ)
Pixiv (ピクシブ) is a Japanese social networking service for posting illustrations, manga, and novels, launched September 10, 2007 by pixiv Inc.; 128 million users and 177 million works by 2026, with FANBOX, BOOTH, and VRoid sister services.
Plains hide painting
Plains hide painting is the pictorial tradition of Native peoples of the Great Plains and Great Basin, painting war deeds, ceremonies, and tribal history on buffalo hides before giving way to ledger art in the 1860s.
Plaque: Equestrian Oba and Attendants
Plaque: Equestrian Oba and Attendants is a 16th-century cast-brass relief from Benin showing a Benin king on horseback, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Plasticine
Plasticine is an oil-based, non-hardening modeling clay invented by William Harbutt in England in 1897, with a German predecessor by Franz Kolb; it never dries, cannot be fired, and is used in art, claymation, industrial design, and engineering model testing.
Platinum print
Platinum print (platinotype): monochrome photographic print in platinum metal within paper fibers, patented by William Willis in 1873, commercial from 1879; prized for tonal range and matte surface, declined in World War I, revived since the 1970s.
Plum Estate, Kameido
Plum Estate, Kameido (亀戸梅屋舗, Kameido Ume-yashiki) is an 1857 color woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige showing the plum garden behind the Kameido Tenjin shrine in Edo.
Poems on Shu Silk
Poems on Shu Silk (蜀素帖), also called Nigu Shi Tie, is a famous 1088 running-script handscroll by Song calligrapher Mi Fu, held in Taipei.
Poet on a Mountaintop
Poet on a Mountaintop is a Ming dynasty album leaf in ink by Shen Zhou, showing a lone scholar gazing at misty peaks; it hangs in Kansas City.
Poetica Vaginal
Poetica Vaginal is a 1985 artwork by Joe Davis: ballerinas' recorded vaginal contractions, translated into text, music, and radio signals, were beamed via MIT's Millstone radar toward Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti before the Air Force shut it down.
Pointillism
Pointillism is a late-19th-century painting technique of Neo-Impressionism, also called Divisionism, developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac: dots of pure color blend optically in the viewer's eye.