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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
A sixth- or seventh-century Byzantine encaustic icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Theodore and George, preserved at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
Virgin of Chiquinquirá
The Virgin of Chiquinquirá (Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá) is a 16th-century painting of the Virgin of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá, Colombia, its patroness.
Virgin of Copacabana
The Virgin of Copacabana (Virgen de la Candelaria de Copacabana) is a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary carved in 1583 by Francisco Tito Yupanqui, honored as the patroness of Bolivia.
Virgin of Coromoto
Our Lady of Coromoto (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Coromoto) is the patroness of Venezuela, a Marian devotion from a reported 1652 apparition to Chief Coromoto of the Cospes near Guanare.
Virgin of Luján
The Virgin of Luján (Virgen de Luján) is a small clay statue of Mary venerated in Argentina, its patroness since 1930, enshrined in the Basilica of Luján.
Virgin of Quito
The Virgin of Quito (Virgen de Quito), also called the Winged Virgin, is a 1734 sculpture of the Immaculate Conception by Quito School sculptor Bernardo de Legarda in Ecuador.
Virgin of Suyapa
The Virgin of Suyapa (Nuestra Señora de Suyapa) is a small wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, patroness of Honduras, venerated in Tegucigalpa since 1747.
Virgin of the Rocks
Virgin of the Rocks, also Madonna of the Rocks: two Leonardo da Vinci paintings of Mary, Christ, John the Baptist and an angel in a grotto; Louvre version c. 1483–86, London NG1093 version 1491/2–1508 from a disputed Milan altarpiece commission.
Virginia Admiral
Virginia Admiral, also known as Virginia De Niro, was an American painter and poet whose abstract work entered the Museum of Modern Art's collection in 1942.
Vishnu as Sheshashayi, Deogarh
A large Gupta-period stone relief on the southern wall of the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh, showing Vishnu reclining on the cosmic serpent Shesha, dated around 475 CE.
Vishnu of Phnom Da
The Vishnu of Phnom Da is a monumental eight-armed sandstone statue of the Hindu god Vishnu, found at Phnom Da hill in Cambodia and now displayed in Phnom Penh.
Vishnu, Deogarh
Vishnu, Deogarh refers to the celebrated Gupta-period reliefs of the Hindu god Vishnu adorning the Dashavatara temple at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh, completed in the early sixth century AD.
Visual arts
Visual arts: art forms experienced through sight, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, media, and performance-related visual practice; covers its history, education, artist economics (15% full-time living, median 18,000 euros), gender inequality data, and AI-era museums and benchmarks.
Visual communication
Visual communication is the practice of conveying information through visual structure, encompassing design, psychology, and computation. It is used in fields like architecture and marketing.
Visual design elements and principles
Visual design elements and principles: elements are the basic units of a composition (line, shape, color, texture) and principles are the operations organizing them (balance, contrast, hierarchy, unity); lists vary by tradition, rooted in Bauhaus and Gestalt psychology.
Visualization (graphics)
Visualization (graphics) is the visual or graphic representation of data using marks and encodings such as bars, lines, and points. Covers its history from Bertin and Beck, graphical perception rankings, comparison layouts, pitfalls, literacy, and standards like ISO 10303-46.
Vito Schnabel
Vito Schnabel (born 1986) is an American art dealer and curator, son of Julian Schnabel; founded Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz in 2015 in Bruno Bischofberger's former space, after a career of independent, site-specific exhibitions in New York.
Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1490 pen-and-ink drawing in Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia, shows a male figure inscribed in circle and square illustrating Vitruvius's ideal human body proportions, with arm span equal to height.
Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526), Venetian Renaissance painter famous for narrative confraternity cycles such as the Saint Ursula series and Saint George and the Dragon; namesake of the raw-beef dish.
Vittorio Reggiani
Vittorio Reggiani, a title variant for the Italian painter Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938), born in Modena and a professor at its academy; costume genre painter of Empire-style interiors, Florentine silks-and-satins school, works in Mainz Museum.
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier, born in 1926, was an American street photographer who worked as a nanny. Her vast archive of over 100,000 negatives remained unknown until its discovery in 2007.
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (1927–2004), known professionally as Torun, was a Swedish silversmith and jewelry designer, one of the first female silversmiths to gain international acclaim.
Viz (comics)
Viz is a British adult comedy magazine founded in Newcastle in 1979 by Chris Donald, parodying children's comics with profane strips like the Fat Slags and Roger Mellie; it peaked at 1.2 million copies in 1991 and is now a monthly Metropolis Group title.
Vkhutemas
Vkhutemas was a Soviet state school of art, architecture, and design in Moscow, operating from 1920 to 1930 and regarded alongside the Bauhaus as a foundation of modern design.
Vladimir Borovikovsky
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757–1825) was a portrait and icon painter of the Russian Empire, born in Myrhorod, and one of the leading Russian portraitists of his era.
Vladimir Favorsky
Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky (Владимир Андреевич Фаворский) was a Russian and Soviet wood engraver, book designer, and teacher, founder of the Moscow school of wood engraving and VKhUTEMAS rector.
Vladimir Makovsky
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Владимир Егорович Маковский, 1846–1920) was a Russian genre painter and leading member of the Peredvizhniki, known for small narrative scenes of Moscow life.
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (1885–1953) was a Russian and Soviet painter and designer regarded as the founder of Constructivism, best known for his unbuilt Tatlin's Tower.
Vlaho Bukovac
Vlaho Bukovac, born Biagio Faggioni, was a Croatian painter from Cavtat who trained in Paris and led the founding of modern Croatian painting in Zagreb in the 1890s.
Vodou flag
A Vodou flag (Haitian Creole drapo) is a ceremonial banner made in Haiti for the religion of Vodou, decorated with sequins, beads, or appliqué and dedicated to a spirit.