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Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)
Vertumnus (1590/91) is Giuseppe Arcimboldo's oil-on-panel portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as the Roman god of the seasons, composed of fruits, vegetables, and flowers; taken as Swedish war booty in 1648, it hangs at Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
Vicente Manansala
Vicente Manansala (1910–1981) was a Filipino painter named National Artist for Painting in 1981 who pioneered transparent cubism, depicting everyday Filipino life in works like Jeepneys.
Vicente Rojo
Vicente Rojo Almazán was a Spanish-born Mexican painter and graphic designer, a leading figure of the Generación de la Ruptura who moved to Mexico in 1949.
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (1903–1966) was a Romanian-born painter who joined André Breton's Surrealist group in Paris, best known for dream imagery and his premonitory 1931 Self-Portrait with Enucleated Eye.
Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin, born 1941 in Sheffield, is a British artist and writer known as an originator of Conceptual art and for his writings on the image.
Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary artist, writer, and photographer born in Edo State, Nigeria, in 1970, known for works drawing on Benin Kingdom traditions and his Catholic upbringing.
Victor Horta
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, one of the founders of Art Nouveau architecture; his Brussels town houses, above all the Hôtel Tassel of 1893, introduced an open plan and iron-and-glass construction.
Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser)
Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo Rojas), 1942-1993, Venezuelan-born performance artist, erotic artist, Warhol Factory assistant, and window dresser for his partner Halston; distinct from the French writer of the same name.
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), born Vásárhelyi Győző, was a Hungarian-French painter and a founder of Op art, known for geometric paintings producing optical illusions of movement.
Victor Zsasz
Victor Zsasz, also Mister Zsasz, is a DC Comics Batman villain and knife-wielding Gotham serial killer created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, debuting in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (1992), who carves a tally mark into his skin for every victim.
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, American ceramic artist born in San Francisco, co-founded MacKenzie-Childs in 1983 in Aurora, New York; known for hand-painted majolica, left the company after its 2001 bankruptcy for the Victoria & Richard venture aboard Yankee Ferry.
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2026
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2026: the revived VS runway event's fourth edition, held October 18, 2026 at Sony Studios, Culver City, Los Angeles, streamed on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, with performers Katseye, Megan Thee Stallion, Tate McRae, and Megan Moroney and a $50 million Fantasy Bra.
Victorio Edades
Victorio Edades (1895–1985) was a Filipino painter who introduced modernist, expressionist painting to the Philippines, known for The Builders and named National Artist for Painting in 1976.
Video art
Video art: art made with the electronic moving image as an artist's medium, emerging with the Sony Portapak in 1965. Key figures: Nam June Paik, the father of video art. Forms include single-channel video, video sculpture, and installation.
Vienna Dioscurides
The Vienna Dioscurides is a Byzantine manuscript produced in Constantinople around 512 for Princess Anicia Juliana, containing nearly 400 plant illustrations accompanying Dioscurides' medical treatise.
Vienna Modernism
Vienna Modernism, also called Vienna around 1900, is a cultural era in Vienna from about 1890 to 1910, defined by the Vienna Secession and figures like Gustav Klimt.
Vienna Secession
Vienna Secession (Wiener Secession): artists' association founded 3 April 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Moser, Hoffmann, and Olbrich after leaving the Künstlerhaus; built Olbrich's gilded-dome exhibition hall in 1898; Klimt Group departed in 1905; still artist-run today.
Vietnamese lacquer painting
Vietnamese lacquer painting, or tranh sơn mài, is a Vietnamese art form that builds images from layers of natural lacquer, emerging as a fine art in the 1930s.
View from the Window at Le Gras
View from the Window at Le Gras (Point de vue du Gras), Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's heliograph on pewter of 1826 or 1827, made at his Saint-Loup-de-Varennes estate with a camera obscura; the earliest surviving camera photograph, now at the Harry Ransom Center.
View of Delft
View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) is an oil painting of the city of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, made around 1660 to 1661 and held in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
View of Toledo
View of Toledo is an oil-on-canvas landscape of the Spanish city painted by El Greco around 1599 to 1600, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins is a Latvian-born American artist, born in Riga in 1938, known for meticulously detailed, mostly gray and black paintings and drawings of ocean surfaces and night skies.
Viktor Schreckengost
Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008) was an American industrial designer and ceramist based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for the Art Deco Jazz Bowl and for mass-produced bicycles and dinnerware.
Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов, 1848–1926) was a Russian painter who founded the national-romantic trend, known for Bogatyrs, Alenushka, and the frescoes of St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev.
Vilhelms Purvītis
Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945) was a Latvian landscape painter and art teacher, the first rector of the Art Academy of Latvia, best known for iconic paintings of snowy winters and early spring.
Villard de Honnecourt
Villard de Honnecourt was a thirteenth-century draftsman from Picardy in northern France, known through his sketchbook of drawings of Gothic cathedrals including Reims and Laon.
Vincent Kofi
Vincent Akwete Kofi (1923–1974) was a Ghanaian modernist sculptor and art educator who worked in wood and bronze, fusing Ghanaian carving traditions with Pan-Africanist themes; critics called him West Africa's leading sculptor.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter; nearly 900 paintings in a ten-year career, Arles ear incident 1888, death at Auvers 1890, fame via Johanna van Gogh-Bonger.
Violet (Peanuts)
Violet Gray is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles M. Schulz, debuting February 7, 1951 as the first addition to the original cast; a snobbish, ponytailed girl, best friend of Patty, first to call Charlie Brown a blockhead, last seen November 27, 1997.
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Vir Heroicus Sublimis is a 1950-51 oil painting by Barnett Newman, a nearly monochromatic red field broken by five thin vertical zips, at the Museum of Modern Art.