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Pol Anglada
Pol Anglada (born 1991, Manlleu, Barcelona) is a Spanish queer illustrator and Paris-based fashion designer, senior designer at Loewe and later Dior, founder of the FreeTime fanzine, and creator of erotic pencil drawings shown in the 2022 Hole exhibition.
Polaroid SX-70
The Polaroid SX-70 is a folding single-lens-reflex instant camera introduced by Polaroid in 1972, the first camera to use self-developing integral film with no peel-apart step.
Polish Gothic sculpture
Polish Gothic sculpture is the medieval sculpture of Poland from the 13th to early 16th century, best known for Wit Stwosz's St Mary's Altar in Kraków.
Pomo
Pomo (泼墨, "splashed ink") is a freehand Chinese painting technique in which ink is splashed onto paper or silk and worked into the accidental shapes it forms.
Pont-Aven School
The Pont-Aven School was a group of painters, led by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard, who worked in Pont-Aven, Brittany, and developed Synthetism in the late 1880s.
Pontormo
Pontormo, the working name of Jacopo Carucci (1494–1556), was a Florentine painter and principal founder of Mannerism, best known for the Capponi Chapel Deposition in Florence and the Visitation at Carmignano.
Pop art
Pop art: 1950s–1970s art movement, also called Pop Art, born in Britain's Independent Group and named by critic Lawrence Alloway; Warhol, Lichtenstein, and peers turned advertising, comics, and consumer goods into fine art via silkscreen and Ben-Day dots.
Poppy Chancellor
Poppy Chancellor was a British illustrator and papercut artist who worked as Poppy's Papercuts, creating bold cut-paper designs for brands including Nike, Adidas, and Cath Kidston.
Portland Vase
The Portland Vase, also called the Barberini Vase, is a Roman cameo glass amphora of about 15 BC–AD 25 in the British Museum, white figures carved over cobalt blue, smashed in 1845 and copied by Wedgwood in jasperware.
Portrait
Portrait: an artistic representation of a particular individual, also called portraiture, capturing likeness or personality. Spans Egyptian mummy portraits, Roman busts, Renaissance revival, photography's impact, and contemporary inclusive practice.
Portrait miniature
Portrait miniature: small portable painted portrait in watercolor, gouache, or enamel, first made in the 1520s at the French and English courts, worn as jewelry or used in diplomacy and courtship until photography ended the trade in the 19th century.
Portrait of a Beauty
Portrait of a Beauty (Miindo) is a late Joseon Korean painting of a woman attributed to Sin Yun-bok, held at the Gansong Art Museum in Seoul.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Bildnis Adele Bloch-Bauer, The Lady in Gold / Woman in Gold): Klimt's 1907 oil, gold, and silver portrait, 140 x 140 cm, seized in 1938, restituted in 2006, and bought by Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million, now at the Neue Galerie New York.
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a 1972 acrylic painting by David Hockney. It depicts a figure by a pool and sold for $90,312,500 in 2018.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Portrait of Dr. Gachet (Portrait du docteur Gachet): Van Gogh's June 1890 double portrait of his Auvers physician Paul Gachet with foxglove. First version sold for $82.5m in 1990 and is now hidden; second is at the Musée d'Orsay.
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is a life-size oil portrait by Gustav Klimt, created 1914–16. It survived Nazi confiscation and sold in 2025 for $236.4 million.
Portrait of Elizabeth II (Freud)
Lucian Freud's small 2000-2001 oil portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, painted at St James's Palace over about twenty sittings, a 20-cm head-and-shoulders with a later-added Diamond Diadem, donated to the Royal Collection and famously divisive.
Portrait of Fath Ali Shah
Portrait of Fath Ali Shah is a life-size oil-on-canvas portrait of the Qajar shah Fath Ali Shah, attributed to court painter Mihr Ali and dated 1800-1806.
Portrait of Ikkyū Sōjun
The Portrait of Ikkyū Sōjun (一休宗純像) is a 1447 hanging scroll portrait of the Rinzai Zen priest Ikkyū Sōjun, held at the Nara National Museum as an Important Cultural Property.
Portrait of Isaac Newton
Portrait of Isaac Newton denotes the life portraits of Sir Isaac Newton, chiefly Godfrey Kneller's 1689 and 1702 oils, the 1720 Varignon Kneller, and Vanderbank's 1725 and 1726 Royal Society portraits, with provenance, dimensions, and reception.
Portrait of Kim Jeong-hui
Portrait of Kim Jeong-hui is a Korean hanging-scroll portrait of the Joseon scholar and calligrapher Kim Jeong-hui, painted in light color on paper by Heo Ryun.
Portrait of King Sejong
The Portrait of King Sejong refers to royal portraits of the Joseon king, all lost after the 1590s Japanese invasions; today's images are modern reconstructions.
Portrait of Madame X
Portrait of Madame X (Madame X), John Singer Sargent's 1883–84 oil portrait of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of a French banker; its fallen-strap debut at the 1884 Paris Salon caused a scandal, and the Met bought it in 1916.
Portrait of Mehmed II
An 1480 oil portrait of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II by Venetian painter Gentile Bellini, made at the Ottoman court and now in the National Gallery, London.
Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo
The Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo is a 13th-century National Treasure hanging scroll at Jingoji Temple in Kyoto, traditionally identified as the first Kamakura shogun.
Portrait of My Brother
Portrait of My Brother (弟の像) is a work by Ai-Mitsu, the Japanese painter Ishimura Nichirō (1907 to 1946), known for Landscape with an Eye and his Surrealist reputation.
Portrait of Omai
Portrait of Omai, retitled Portrait of Mai (Omai), is Joshua Reynolds's circa 1776 full-length oil portrait of Mai, the first Polynesian visitor to Britain, jointly owned since 2023 by the National Portrait Gallery and the Getty.
Portrait of Qi Baishi
Portrait of Qi Baishi is a 1954 oil painting by Wu Zuoren depicting the master Qi Baishi, held in the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: 1982 oil on canvas by Mara McGregor, 160 x 110 cm, presented by the Queen Mother to the Officers' Mess at RAF Bentley Priory and now at Bentley Priory Museum; one of many portraits including works by Augustus John, Gerald Kelly, and Cecil Beaton.
Portrait of Sen no Rikyū
The Portrait of Sen no Rikyū (Rikyū koji zō) is the best-known painted image of the Japanese tea master, a 1595 hanging scroll attributed to Hasegawa Tōhaku in Kyoto.