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Raimondi Stela
The Raimondi Stela (Estela Raimondi) is a carved granite slab from Peru's Chavín culture, showing the fanged Staff God, famed for reading differently upside down.
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an 1844 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner showing a locomotive crossing Maidenhead Railway Bridge, now in the National Gallery, London.
Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota
Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota (1724–1763) was a small hill ruler near Jammu, remembered chiefly as the patron and frequent subject of the Pahari painter Nainsukh.
Raja Ravi Varma (രാജാ രവി വർമ്മ)
Raja Ravi Varma (രാജാ രവി വർമ്മ), 1848–1906, Kerala-born painter of Travancore, fused European academic oil realism with Hindu mythology and founded the 1894 Ravi Varma Press in Bombay, whose oleographs shaped Indian popular and cinematic imagery.
Rajput painting
Rajput painting is the tradition of Indian court painting produced for Hindu Rajput rulers in Rajasthan, central India, and the Punjab Hills from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Rakshasa Street (镇魂街)
Rakshasa Street (镇魂街) is Xu Chen's Chinese fantasy action manhua, serialized on U17 from 2010 to 2025, about spirit host Cao Yanbing and guardian spirits, adapted into donghua, live action, and games.
Raku ware
Raku ware (raku-yaki, 樂焼): Kyoto hand-formed tea-ceremony pottery started by Chōjirō under Sen no Rikyū around 1579; no wheel, small single-piece kiln, red or black glaze; distinct from Western 'raku' firing.
Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version)
The Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version) is a pair of six-panel folding screens attributed to Kanō Eitoku that depicts mid-16th-century Kyoto and has been a National Treasure since 1995.
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi (born 1938, Haifa) is an American animator and director, pioneer of adult animation with Fritz the Cat (1972), Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, Wizards, and the rotoscoped 1978 Lord of the Rings.
Ralph Hotere
Ralph Hotere (Hone Papita Raukura Hōtere, 1931–2013) was a New Zealand painter of Te Aupōuri descent, based at Port Chalmers near Dunedin and known for his minimalist black paintings.
Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph McQuarrie (1929–2012), American concept artist and illustrator, created the defining concept art of the original Star Wars trilogy, including Darth Vader, C-3PO, and R2-D2, and shared the 1985 Visual Effects Oscar for Cocoon.
Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born 1936) is a British illustrator and caricaturist, visual partner of Hunter S. Thompson and defining artist of gonzo journalism, known for ink-splattered satire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alice in Wonderland, and Gonzovation books.
Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar (1924–2018) was an Indian painter and Hindi writer who moved from figurative scenes of urban distress to abstract landscapes, notably his Benaras series begun in 1960.
Ram Sutar
Ram Sutar, full name Ram Vanji Sutar, was an Indian sculptor who designed the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, the world's tallest statue, and the meditating Gandhi outside the old Parliament building.
Ram V
Ram V (Ramnarayan Venkatesan) is an Indian comics writer in London, creator of Black Mumba, These Savage Shores, Laila Starr, and Eisner-winning Blue in Green, and writer of DC's Swamp Thing, Detective Comics, and New Gods and Marvel's Venom.
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills is a 1935 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe combining a ram's skull and white hollyhock above New Mexico hills.
Rama Duwaji
Rama Duwaji, also Rama Sawaf Duwaji, is a Syrian-American animator, illustrator, and ceramist born in Houston in 1997, with work in The New Yorker and the Washington Post, and First Lady of New York City as Zohran Mamdani's wife.
Ramakien murals of Wat Phra Kaew
The Ramakien murals of Wat Phra Kaew, painted first under King Rama I, are 178 panels in a Bangkok Grand Palace cloister depicting the full Thai Ramayana epic.
Ramayana murals of Mattancherry Palace
The Ramayana murals of Mattancherry Palace are 16th- and 17th-century wall paintings in the royal bedchamber of Mattancherry Palace at Kochi, Kerala, narrating the entire Ramayana.
Rami Kashou
Rami Kashou, Palestinian American fashion designer born 1976 in Jerusalem, raised in Ramallah; Project Runway Season 4 runner-up (2007) and All Stars contestant; known for draping, Queen Rania and celebrity clients, and Palestinian embroidery work.
Ramisha Sattar
Ramisha Sattar, born 1999 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a Pakistani American creative director and designer based in LA, New York, and Dallas; creative director for Chappell Roan and art director of the CHANI astrology app.
Ramkinkar Baij
Ramkinkar Baij (রামকিঙ্কর বেইজ; 1906–1980) was an Indian sculptor and painter at Santiniketan, regarded as the father of modern Indian sculpture, known for cement works like Santhal Family and Mill Call.
Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist and former NASA roboticist, creator of the stick-figure webcomic xkcd and author of What If? and Thing Explainer.
Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886) was an English illustrator whose annual Christmas picture books with printer Edmund Evans helped establish the modern picture book, and whose name became the Caldecott Medal.
Rangoli (रंगोली)
Rangoli (रंगोली), also called alpana, kolam, muggu, or mandana, is the traditional Indian art of drawing decorative floor patterns with coloured powders, rice paste, and petals for festivals, rituals, and daily practice across India's regions.
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), French Fauvist painter, watercolorist, engraver, and textile designer from Le Havre; creator of La Fée Électricité (1937) and nearly 4,000 Bianchini Férier fabric motifs.
Raphael
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520), Urbino-born High Renaissance painter, designer and architect for Popes Julius II and Leo X; Vatican Stanze frescoes, Sistine tapestry cartoons, St Peter's architect; died Good Friday 1520, buried in the Pantheon.
Raphael Rooms
Raphael Rooms (Stanze di Raffaello), four papal reception rooms in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace frescoed by Raphael and his workshop 1508–1524 for Julius II and Leo X, housing the School of Athens.
Raphaelle Peale
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) was an American painter of Philadelphia, eldest surviving son of Charles Willson Peale, regarded as the first professional still-life painter in the United States.
Raška school
The Raška school (Рашка школа), also called the Raška style, is a medieval Serbian ecclesiastical architectural style flourishing from the late 12th to the late 13th century.