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Roman temple
Roman temple: a Romano-Italic temple type combining Etruscan high podium, frontal staircase and cella with Greek orders; sacrifice occurred at an open-air altar outside. Key examples: Jupiter Capitolinus (55 x 60 m, 509 BC), Venus and Roma.
Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) was a Russian-born American photographer and biologist, best known for photographs of Jewish communities in eastern Europe before the Holocaust and for pioneering photomicroscopy.
Romanesque art
Romanesque art: western European art and architecture of the 10th to 12th centuries, also called Norman in Britain; round arches, thick walls, barrel vaults, revived monumental sculpture, tympanums, pilgrimage churches, and monastic patronage before Gothic.
Romanesque sculpture
Romanesque sculpture is the figurative stone, wood, and metal carving produced in western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries, when monumental sculpture revived for church facades, doorways, and capitals, especially in France, Spain, and Italy.
Romantic art
Romantic art, the visual branch of Romanticism (le romantisme), arose in late-18th-century Germany against Neoclassicism and Enlightenment rationalism, exalting emotion, imagination, the sublime in nature, and the individual artist, with Delacroix, Géricault, Turner, Constable, and Friedrich as leading painters.
Romanticism
Romanticism: European artistic and intellectual movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, born in Germany, exalting emotion, imagination, individuality, nature, and the sublime against Enlightenment rationalism and Neoclassicism.
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden (1911–1988), American collagist, painter, and songwriter of "Seabreeze"; turned to collage at 53 after the Spiral group, had MoMA's 1971 Prevalence of Ritual retrospective, and made The Block (1971).
Romero Britto
Romero Britto (born 1963, Recife) is a Brazilian pop-cubist painter, sculptor, and printmaker based in Miami, founder of the Happy Art Movement, launched by the 1989 Absolut Vodka campaign and known for licensing and public art.
Romuald Hazoumè
Romuald Hazoumè, born in 1962 in Porto-Novo, Benin, is a sculptor and installation artist best known for masks made from discarded plastic petrol cans; he won the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta 12 in 2007.
Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck (born 1958, Melbourne) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor based in London, known for Dead Dad in Sensation 1997, the monumental Boy at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and lifelike human figures in distorted scales made of silicone, resin, and acrylic.
Rondanini Pietà
The Rondanini Pietà is Michelangelo's last sculpture, an unfinished marble group of the dead Christ upheld by his standing Mother, chiseled until days before his death in 1564.
Rong Rong
Rong Rong (榮榮) is a Chinese contemporary photographer, born in 1968, best known for documenting the Beijing East Village artists and co-founding Three Shadows in Beijing.
Rongbaozhai
Rongbaozhai (荣宝斋) is a Beijing art and stationery institution on Liulichang West Street, founded in 1672 and best known for woodblock water printing that reproduces Chinese paintings.
Rongxi Studio
Rongxi Studio (容膝斋图) is a hanging-scroll ink landscape painted in 1372 by the Chinese literati painter Ni Zan, a National Treasure held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (c. 1943–2023) was a Pintupi painter of the Australian Western Desert who joined the Papunya Tula movement in 1971 and pioneered a bold, scaled-up linear style.
Rood screen
A rood screen, also called a chancel or choir screen, is a screen of wood or stone separating a church's nave from the chancel, surmounted by a crucifix.
Room in New York
Room in New York is a 1932 oil painting by Edward Hopper depicting a couple in a lighted apartment at night, held by the Sheldon Museum of Art in Nebraska.
Rooms by the Sea
Rooms by the Sea is a 1951 oil painting by Edward Hopper at the Yale University Art Gallery, showing an empty Cape Cod interior whose door opens onto the sea, one of only three known figureless Hopper interiors.
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, 1822–1899), French Realist animal painter and sculptor; Salon debut 1841, The Horse Fair 1853, first woman awarded the Legion of Honor (1865), lived at Château de By near Fontainebleau.
Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera (1673 or 1675, Venice – 1757, Venice) was a Venetian painter who made pastel portraiture a serious genre, beginning with miniatures on ivory and serving royal clients from Paris to Vienna.
Rosana Paulino
Rosana Paulino (born 1967, São Paulo) is a Brazilian contemporary artist, curator, and researcher whose work examines the legacies of slavery, racism, and gender violence in Brazil.
Rosângela Rennó
Rosângela Rennó, born 1962 in Belo Horizonte, is a Brazilian intermedia artist who reworks discarded photographs and archives to explore memory and forgetting, living in Rio de Janeiro.
Rose-painting
Rose-painting (rosemaling, rosemåling) is Norway's decorative folk painting on wood, flourishing about 1740 to 1860 in Telemark, Hallingdal, Numedal, Setesdal and Agder. Derived from Baroque and Rococo ornament, it has distinct regional styles and was revived in Norway (1891) and by Norwegian-Americans.
Rosebud Egg
The Rosebud Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1895, when Tsar Nicholas II gave it to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna as her first Easter egg.
Rosso Fiorentino
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, 1494–1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter, born in Florence, known for the Volterra Deposition and for leading the decoration of Fontainebleau.
Rothschild Egg
The Rothschild Egg is a jewelled 1902 Fabergé egg with a clock and automaton cockerel, made by Michael Perkhin as an engagement gift for Germaine Halphen.
Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping: animation and VFX technique of tracing live-action footage frame by frame, also called the Fleischer process. Invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, patented 1917 (US1242674); first used in Out of the Inkwell (1919), later by Disney for Snow White, Ralph Bakshi, and Sabiston's digital Rotoshop.
Röttgen Pietà
The Röttgen Pietà is a Gothic painted-wood sculpture of Mary holding the dead Christ, made in Germany around 1300–25 and now in the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn.
Rover Thomas
Rover Thomas, also known as Joolama (c. 1926–1998), was a Kukatja/Wangkajunga Aboriginal artist who painted in natural ochres and represented Australia at the 1990 Venice Biennale.
Roy DeCarava
Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) was an American photographer known for black-and-white pictures of Harlem life and New York jazz musicians, and the first African American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1952.