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Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is a c. 1750 oil painting by Mexican artist Miguel Cabrera depicting the poet and nun seated at her desk.
Portrait of Tenochtitlan
Portrait of Tenochtitlan (Retrato de Tenochtitlán) is Thomas Kole's 2023 open-source 3D reconstruction of the Mexica capital as of 1518, built in Blender with drone comparisons of modern Mexico City, published in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl under CC BY 4.0.
Portrait of the Bourgeoisie
Portrait of the Bourgeoisie (Retrato de la burguesía) is a 1939–1940 mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros covering the stairwell walls and ceiling of the Mexican Electricians' Syndicate building in Mexico City.
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs is a porphyry sculptural group of four embracing Roman emperors, carved around 305 CE in Constantinople and looted to Venice in 1204.
Portrait of the Mozart Family
Portrait of the Mozart Family (Familienbild der Mozarts), della Croce (attr.), 1780/1781: oil on canvas, 140.4 x 187.6 cm, Salzburg Mozarteum, showing Wolfgang and Nannerl at a four-hand keyboard, Leopold with violin, and the dead mother in a framed portrait.
Portrait of the Priest Myōe
Portrait of the Priest Myōe is a 13th-century hanging scroll showing the Kegon monk Myōe meditating on a pine tree at Kōzan-ji in Kyoto, a National Treasure.
Portrait of Yi Je-hyeon
The Portrait of Yi Je-hyeon is a 1319 full-length portrait of the Goryeo scholar-official by the Yuan painter Jin Ganru, designated National Treasure No. 110 of South Korea.
Portrait of Yun Jeung
The Portrait of Yun Jeung (윤증 초상) is a group of Joseon portraits of scholar Yun Jeung, made 1711–1885 and preserved at Nonsan, designated Treasure No. 1495.
Portrait painting
Portrait painting: painted images of specific individuals, from Roman Egyptian mummy portraits through the 15th–17th century golden age to modern likeness debates, photography's impact, and contemporary painted and AI-assisted portraiture.
Portrait photography
Portrait photography captures a person's likeness, personality, and mood through deliberate lighting, pose, and composition. It spans the 1839 daguerreotype, calotype studios, environmental portraiture, and computational smartphone portrait modes.
Portraits of Mozart
Portraits of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: barely a dozen of several dozen claimed lifetime likenesses are authenticated, including Carmontelle 1763–64, Verona 1770, Lange 1789–90, Stock 1789; Krafft's 1819 image and the disputed Edlinger.
Portraits overlooking Tiananmen
Portraits overlooking Tiananmen is a large oil painting of Mao Zedong that hangs at the Tiananmen gate tower, and a new version is swapped in each year before National Day.
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism, term coined by Roger Fry in 1910, covers French painting of roughly 1886 to 1905 by Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat, who moved beyond Impressionist naturalism toward structure, emotion, and symbolism.
Post-mortem photography
Post-mortem photography, also called memorial portraiture or memento mori photography, is the photographing of recently deceased people, common in the Victorian era and now mainly a forensic and bereavement practice.
Post-painterly abstraction
Post-painterly abstraction is a term coined by critic Clement Greenberg in 1964 for abstract painting rejecting Abstract Expressionist brushwork in favor of open composition and clear color.
Poster
A poster is a printed or displayed sheet combining image and text for public display, emerging as a mass medium with color lithography in the 1860s.
Postmodern art
Postmodern art, also called postmodernist art, is art shaped by postmodernism from the late 1950s onward: anti-authoritarian, eclectic, ironic, mixing high and popular culture. Key figures include Warhol, Sherman, LeWitt, Weiner; theorists Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jencks, Jameson.
Poto-Poto school
The Poto-Poto school of painting, also called the École de peinture de Poto-Poto, is an art school founded in Brazzaville, Congo, in 1951 by French painter Pierre Lods.
Prada Marfa
Prada Marfa is a permanent 2005 land art sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset, a sealed faux Prada boutique on Highway 90 near Valentine, Texas, 37 miles from Marfa, funded by nonprofits, not by Prada.
Prayat Pongdam
Prayat Pongdam (ประหยัด พงษ์ดำ, 1934–2014) was a Thai printmaker and painter, named a National Artist in 1998, known for gold-accented woodcut prints of rural Thai life.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was a secret society of seven young English artists founded in London in September 1848 by Hunt, Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, rejecting Royal Academy conventions in favor of art before Raphael, detailed realism, and bright color.
Preah Ko style
The Preah Ko style is one of the earliest Angkorian art styles of the Khmer civilization, named for the temple at Roluos built by Indravarman I and dedicated in 879.
Precisionism
Precisionism was an American modernist art movement of the 1920s and 1930s, often called the first originally American modernist movement, led by Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Priam's Treasure
Priam's Treasure is a hoard of gold, silver, and copper objects uncovered by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık, the site of ancient Troy, in 1873, now held in Moscow.
Primavera (Botticelli)
Primavera (Spring), c. 1480, is Botticelli's large tempera-on-poplar panel of nine mythological figures including Venus, Flora, the Graces, and Mercury, in the Uffizi, Florence, inventory 1890 n. 8360.
Primer (paint)
Primer (paint) is the first coating in a paint system, applied to bond topcoat to substrate, seal porous surfaces, and block stains. Main types: latex, oil-based, and shellac-based primers, differing in adhesion, drying speed, and VOC content.
Primitivism
Primitivism is the modern Western art-historical attitude that borrowed from cultures labeled "primitive"; key figures Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse; active roughly 1885 to 1930s; now criticized as Eurocentric, especially after the 1984 MoMA exhibition debate.
Princess Sofia of Romania
Princess Sofia of Romania (Sofia/Sophie), born 1957 in Athens, fourth daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne, is a photographer and author whose Romania, a Celebration project yielded exhibitions from Brittany to Cluj and the urbex series Of Stone and Steel.
Princeton Vase
The Princeton Vase is a Late Classic Maya cylindrical chocolate drinking cup, painted in codex style around 670–750 CE and held by the Princeton University Art Museum.
Printmaking
Printmaking is the art of transferring an image from a matrix, such as a woodblock, metal plate, or stone, to paper in repeatable impressions. Main categories are relief, intaglio, planographic, and stencil processes, from woodcut to screenprint.