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Qin bronze chariots and horses
The Qin bronze chariots and horses are two half-scale painted bronze models of horse-drawn chariots buried near the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, excavated in 1980.
Qing imperial painting academy
The Qing imperial painting academy was the Qing court's painting establishment, housed in the Ruyi Guan of the Imperial Workshops under the Kangxi through Qianlong emperors.
Qingzhou Buddhist sculptures
The Qingzhou Buddhist sculptures are over 400 limestone Buddhist statues unearthed in 1996 at Qingzhou's Longxing Temple, Shandong, most carved in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi periods.
Qiu Ying
Qiu Ying (仇英) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter of humble origins, one of the Four Masters of Ming, known for blue-green landscapes and fine figure painting.
Qiyun shengdong
Qiyun shengdong (氣韻生動), often rendered "spirit resonance and vitality of motion", is the first and most influential of the six principles of Chinese painting set out by Xie He.
Quamrul Hassan
Quamrul Hassan (কামরুল হাসান), known as Patua Quamrul Hassan, was a Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of modern art who gave the national flag its present form in 1972.
Queen Idia ivory mask
The Queen Idia ivory mask, also called the Queen Mother pendant mask, is a sixteenth-century carved ivory pendant from Benin honoring Idia, mother of Oba Esigie.
Queenie McKenzie
Queenie McKenzie, also known as Queenie Nakarra McKenzie, was an Aboriginal Australian painter of the Gija people in the East Kimberley, the first woman to paint at Warmun (Turkey Creek).
Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake (born 1932, Sidcup) is the British illustrator of over 500 books, famous for Roald Dahl's titles, first Children's Laureate 1999-2001, knighted 2013, founder of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
Quentin Matsys
Quentin Matsys, also spelled Massys (1466–1530), was a Netherlandish painter born in Leuven and active in Antwerp, regarded as the founder of the Antwerp school.
Quilling
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the craft of rolling narrow paper strips into coils and shapes to form decorative designs. Originating with 15th-century French and Italian religious orders imitating metal filigree, it became an 18th-century English pastime and survives through guilds and contemporary artists.
Quillwork
Quillwork is an embroidery art of North American Indigenous peoples in which dyed porcupine quills are stitched onto hide, birchbark, or fabric, historically practiced almost exclusively by women.
Quinkan rock art
Quinkan rock art is the body of Aboriginal rock paintings and engravings near Laura, in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, with an estimated 10,000 sites dating back about 25,000 years.
Quiriguá stelae
The Quiriguá stelae are carved sandstone Maya monuments at Quiriguá, Guatemala, erected mostly in the 8th century and famous as the tallest stelae in the Maya world.
Quiriguá Zoomorph P
Quiriguá Zoomorph P, also known as Monument 16, is a Maya sandstone boulder sculpture at Quiriguá, Guatemala, depicting a two-headed cosmic monster and dedicated by ruler Sky Xul in 795 AD.
Quito School
The Quito School (Escuela Quiteña) was the colonial painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Real Audiencia de Quito, present-day Ecuador, from the 16th to the early 19th century.
R. B. Kitaj
R. B. Kitaj (born Ronald Brooks Kitaj, 1932–2007) was an American painter and printmaker who spent most of his career in London as a leading postwar figurative artist.
R. C. Gorman
R. C. Gorman (Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1931–2005) was a Navajo artist known for paintings and lithographs of Navajo women and for founding Taos's Navajo Gallery.
R. K. Laxman (ராசிபுரம் கிருஷ்ணசுவாமி லட்சுமண்)
R. K. Laxman (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman, 1921-2015), Indian political cartoonist of The Times of India, creator of the iconic silent 'Common Man' in the daily pocket cartoon 'You Said It'; Padma Vibhushan and Ramon Magsaysay laureate.
Rabanne (fashion house)
Rabanne, formerly Paco Rabanne, is a French fashion and fragrance house founded in Paris in 1966 by the Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne, known for metal and plastic garments.
Rachel Owen
Rachel Owen: American wedding and fine-art portrait photographer, co-owner of J.R. Owen & Co. in Lemont, Illinois, WPPI Triple Master and Adobe Photoshop expert; distinct from Welsh printmaker Rachel Mary Owen (1968-2016) and sculptor Rachel Owens.
Rachel Ruysch
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a Dutch painter of flower still lifes who worked in Amsterdam and served as court painter in Düsseldorf, with patrons paying over 1,000 guilders.
Rachid Koraïchi
Rachid Koraïchi (رشيد قريشي) is an Algerian contemporary artist born in 1947 who combines calligraphy and Sufi spirituality across ceramics, textiles, bronze, and steel, winning the Jameel Prize in 2011.
Racquel Chevremont
Racquel Chevremont, American art curator, collector, and consultant from Brooklyn and the Bronx, formerly an Elite model; Deux Femmes Noires co-founder with Mickalene Thomas, Real Housewives of New York cast member, and curator of This Too Shall Pass (2023).
Raden Saleh
Raden Saleh, full name Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman, was an Indonesian painter trained in Europe from 1829, best known for The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro (1857).
Radiator Building—Night, New York
Radiator Building—Night, New York is a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe showing the American Radiator Building in Midtown Manhattan as a black skyscraper lit by windows, steam, and searchlights.
Ragamala painting
Ragamala painting (रागमाला, "garland of ragas") is a genre of Indian miniature painting in which each picture visualizes a raga of Indian classical music, first identified in the fifteenth century.
Raghu Rai
Raghu Rai (रघु राय) was an Indian photographer and photo editor, the first Indian member of Magnum Photos, best known for documenting India and his Bhopal disaster photographs.
Raghubir Singh
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer from Jaipur, regarded as a pioneer of color street photography, who published fourteen photobooks on India and received the Padma Shri in 1983.
Raigō-e
Raigō-e (来迎図, raigō-zu) are Japanese paintings of Amida Buddha's welcoming descent from the Western Pure Land to receive the dying, a major Pure Land subject from the Heian period.