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The Infinity Crusade
The Infinity Crusade is a six-issue Marvel Comics limited series published in 1993 and 1994, written by Jim Starlin with art by Ron Lim, third of Marvel's 1990s cosmic trilogy.
The Irony of Negro Policeman
The Irony of Negro Policeman is a 1981 painting by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat that shows a standing Black police officer in uniform, acrylic and oilstick on wood.
The Jewish Bride
The Jewish Bride (Het Joodse bruidje) is a c. 1665–1669 oil painting by Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, showing an intimate couple, probably Isaac and Rebecca.
The Jolly Flatboatmen
The Jolly Flatboatmen is an 1846 oil painting by American artist George Caleb Bingham showing eight boatmen dancing and playing music on a flatboat, now in the National Gallery of Art.
The Judas Contract
The Judas Contract is a 1984 four-part Teen Titans storyline by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez in Tales of the Teen Titans #42-44 and Annual #3, known for Terra's betrayal of the team, Deathstroke's origin, and Dick Grayson's debut as Nightwing, adapted as a 2017 animated film.
The Katzenjammer Kids
The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip by Rudolph Dirks, debuting December 12, 1897 in Hearst's New York Journal; after a 1914 lawsuit Dirks created the rival Captain and the Kids, and the original strip ran until 2006.
The Kelpies
The Kelpies are two 30-metre stainless steel horse-head sculptures by Andy Scott in the Helix park, Falkirk, beside the Forth and Clyde Canal; opened 2013-2014, the world's largest equine sculptures, honouring Clydesdale workhorses and kelpie folklore.
The Kiss (Klimt)
The Kiss (Der Kuss (Liebespaar)), Gustav Klimt's 1907–1908 oil and gold leaf painting, 180 × 180 cm, at the Belvedere, Vienna; peak of his Golden Phase, first shown at the Kunstschau 1908 as Liebespaar and bought by the Austrian state for 25,000 Kronen.
The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)
The Kiss (Le Baiser) is Auguste Rodin's marble group of Paolo and Francesca from Dante, conceived circa 1882 for The Gates of Hell, exhibited independently in 1887, and delivered as an enlarged state-commissioned marble in 1898.
The Kitchen Table Series
The Kitchen Table Series is a 1990 work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems, 20 staged black-and-white photographs and 14 text panels telling one woman's story around a kitchen table.
The Knight Errant (painting)
The Knight Errant is an 1870 oil painting by John Everett Millais showing an armored knight freeing a nude woman tied to a birch tree; his only female nude, altered after poor reviews, now Tate Britain N01508.
The Lacemaker
The Lacemaker (French: La Dentellière) is a small oil painting by Johannes Vermeer of a young woman making lace, painted around 1669–1670 and held at the Louvre.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent (icon)
The Ladder of Divine Ascent is a late 12th-century Byzantine icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, showing monks climbing toward Christ while demons drag some into Hell.
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la licorne), also called the Cluny Tapestries, is a set of six wool-and-silk Flemish tapestries woven around 1480–1500, five on the senses plus À Mon Seul Désir, held at the Musée de Cluny, Paris.
The Lady of Shalott (painting)
Waterhouse's 1888 oil painting The Lady of Shalott (Tate, N01543, 153 x 200 cm), showing Tennyson's dying heroine drifting to Camelot in her boat; distinguished from his 1894 Leeds and Art Gallery of Ontario versions.
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel altar wall, painted 1536-1541 under Paul III, with 314 figures, controversial nudes, and a 2026 salt-film cleaning.
The Last of the Buffalo
The Last of the Buffalo is an 1888–1889 oil painting by Albert Bierstadt showing Indigenous hunters on horseback attacking a vast bison herd, regarded as his final great western painting.
The Last Supper (Leonardo)
The Last Supper, also called Il Cenacolo, is a mural by Leonardo da Vinci showing Jesus announcing his betrayal, painted in Milan between 1494 and 1498.
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is a 1972 mixed-media assemblage by the American artist Betye Saar that transforms the racist Aunt Jemima caricature into an armed figure of resistance.
The Lightning Field
The Lightning Field is a 1977 Land Art work by Walter De Maria: 400 stainless steel poles in a grid in the high desert of western New Mexico.
The Little Deer
The Little Deer (La venadita), also known as The Wounded Deer, is a 1946 oil painting by Frida Kahlo showing herself as an arrow-pierced stag.
The Little Mermaid (statue)
The Little Mermaid (Den lille Havfrue) is Edvard Eriksen's bronze statue at Langelinie, Copenhagen, installed 23 August 1913 from Carl Jacobsen's commission, inspired by Andersen's 1837 fairy tale and ballerina Ellen Price, repeatedly vandalized and briefly moved to Shanghai EXPO 2010.
The Liver Is the Cock's Comb
The Liver Is the Cock's Comb is a 1944 oil painting by Arshile Gorky, his largest and widely considered his greatest, held by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
The Lives of the Artists
The Lives of the Artists, also known as Le Vite, is a series of artist biographies by Giorgio Vasari, first published in Florence in 1550.
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City is a 1931 mural by Diego Rivera at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.
The March of Humanity
The March of Humanity (La marcha de la humanidad) is a monumental mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros covering the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros in Mexico City, the largest mural in the world.
The Master of Boyana
The Master of Boyana (Боянският майстор) is the name for the anonymous painters who created the 1259 frescoes of the Boyana Church near Sofia, a peak of medieval Bulgarian art.
The Mature Age
The Mature Age (French: L'Âge mûr) is a bronze sculptural group by Camille Claudel, an allegory of youth, maturity, and old age, shown at the Salon of 1899.
The Migration Series
The Migration Series is a set of sixty tempera paintings made by Jacob Lawrence in 1940–41 depicting the Great Migration of African Americans from South to North.
The Milkmaid (Vermeer)
The Milkmaid (Het Melkmeisje), c. 1660, is Vermeer's oil on canvas of a kitchen maid pouring milk, 45.5 x 41 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; 2022 scans revealed a painted-over jug holder, fire basket, and underpainting.