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Van Cleef & Arpels
Van Cleef & Arpels, French high jewelry and watchmaking Maison founded 1906 at 22 Place Vendôme, Paris, by Alfred Van Cleef and Charles Arpels after the 1895 Arpels-Van Cleef marriage; Richemont-owned since 2003, known for the Mystery Set and zip necklace.
Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell, born Vanessa Stephen (1879–1961), was a British painter and interior designer, a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group and elder sister of Virginia Woolf.
Vanessa Trump
Vanessa Trump (born 1977), also known as Vanessa Haydon, is an American former Wilhelmina model, ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. (married 2005, divorced 2018, five children), partner of Tiger Woods since 2025, and breast cancer patient who disclosed her diagnosis in May 2026.
Vanitas
Vanitas is a still-life genre, chiefly Dutch and Flemish 17th-century painting, using skulls, hourglasses, snuffed candles, books, and jewels to symbolize life's transience and the emptiness of worldly goods.
Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke, born in Jamaica in 1951, is a British Jamaican photographer often called the godfather of Black British photography for his five decades documenting Black life in Birmingham.
Vann Nath
Vann Nath (1946–2011) was a Cambodian painter who survived the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 and painted scenes of its torture for the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
Vapheio cups
The Vapheio cups are a pair of gold drinking cups with repoussé relief scenes of capturing wild bulls, found in 1888 near Sparta and kept in Athens.
Varvakeion Athena
The Varvakeion Athena is a Roman-period marble statuette copying Phidias's lost Athena Parthenos, found in Athens in 1880 and displayed in the National Archaeological Museum.
Vasa Museum
Vasa Museum (Vasamuseet), maritime museum on Djurgården, Stockholm, housing the warship Vasa, which sank in 1628 and was raised in 1961; opened 1990, over 1.5 million visitors in 2019.
Vase of the Seven Gods
The Vase of the Seven Gods (K2796) is a Late Classic Maya cylinder vase depicting six underworld lords before God L on the day of creation.
Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov (Василий Перов) was a Russian critical realist painter of genre scenes and portraits, a founding member of the Peredvizhniki who taught at the Moscow School.
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov, also known as Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, was a Russian Peredvizhniki painter known for lyrical landscapes like Moscow Courtyard (1878) and his cycle From the Life of Christ.
Vasily Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков)
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков), 1848–1916, Russian historical painter from Krasnoyarsk; creator of The Morning of the Streltsy Execution, Menshikov in Beryozovo, Boyarina Morozova, and The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak.
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (Василий Тропинин) was a Russian portrait painter who spent half his life as a serf, becoming an academician and Moscow's leading portraitist.
Vasily Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин)
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин), 1842–1904, Russian battle painter, writer, and ethnographic collector; creator of the Turkestan, Balkan, and 1812 series, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, died on the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur.
Vatapi Ganapati
Vatapi Ganapati is a Ganesha image at a Shiva temple in Tiruchenkattankudi, Tamil Nadu, traditionally said to have been brought from Vatapi, the Chalukya capital at Badami, after the 642 CE Pallava war.
Veduta
A veduta, Italian for "view," is a detailed, usually large-scale painting or print of a city or panorama made with topographical exactitude, reaching its peak in 18th-century Venice with Canaletto.
Veiled Christ
The Veiled Christ (Cristo velato) is a life-sized 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino showing the dead Jesus covered by a transparent shroud carved from the same block.
Veit Stoss
Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz) was a German Late Gothic sculptor and woodcarver, born around 1447, best known for the great carved high altar of St Mary's Church in Kraków.
Venetian school
The Venetian school was a tradition of Renaissance painting in Venice from the fifteenth through the sixteenth centuries, led by Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
Venus Callipyge
Venus Callipyge, also called Aphrodite Kallipygos or the Callipygian Venus, is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to copy a lost Greek original, in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Venus de Milo
Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos): Hellenistic Parian marble statue of Aphrodite, 204 cm, dated 150–125 BC, attributed to Alexandros of Antioch; found on Melos in 1820, in the Louvre since 1821, famous for its missing arms.
Venus de' Medici
The Venus de' Medici is a 153 cm Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite in the pudica pose, displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1680.
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Venus of Berekhat Ram, also called the Berekhat Ram figurine, a 3.5 cm grooved scoria pebble found 1981 in the Golan Heights, dated roughly 230,000-700,000 BP, a disputed Acheulian candidate for the oldest figurative art.
Venus of Urbino
Venus of Urbino (Venere di Urbino), Titian's 1538 oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm, in the Uffizi: a reclining nude based on Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, bought by Guidobaldo II della Rovere as "la donna nuda," read as a marriage painting, and later reworked by Manet's Olympia.
Vera Mukhina
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Вера Игнатьевна Мухина), 1889 to 1953, was a Russian and Soviet sculptor, best known for the monumental stainless-steel Worker and Kolkhoz Woman.
Veracruz ballgame sculpture
Veracruz ballgame sculpture is a Gulf Coast Mexican tradition of carved stone yokes, hachas, and palmas representing Mesoamerican ballgame gear, flourishing about 300 to 900 CE.
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926–1998) was a Danish architect and designer, best known for the Panton Chair, the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic.
Veroli Casket
The Veroli Casket is a 10th-century Byzantine ivory and bone casket carved in Constantinople, named after Veroli, Italy, and now held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Vertigo Comics
Vertigo Comics (DC Vertigo) is DC Comics' mature-readers imprint, founded in 1993 by Karen Berger for creator-driven titles like Sandman, Preacher, and 100 Bullets; sunset in 2019 for Black Label, revived with ten new series from February 2026.