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Volotovo Church frescoes
The Volotovo Church frescoes are the 14th-century murals of the Church of the Assumption on Volotovo Field near Veliky Novgorod, painted in 1352 and regarded as an outstanding monument of Novgorod painting.
Vorticism
Vorticism was a British avant-garde art and literature movement founded in London in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, expressing the machine age through angular geometric abstraction.
Voss (collection)
Voss (VOSS) is Alexander McQueen's spring/summer 2001 women's collection, shown in London on 26 September 2000 inside a mirrored glass padded-cell set, with shell garments and a Witkin-inspired finale.
Votive Crown of Recceswinth
The Votive Crown of Recceswinth is a seventh-century gold votive crown offered by the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649-672), the principal piece of the Treasure of Guarrazar.
W. Heath Robinson
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English illustrator and cartoonist famed for absurdly elaborate contraption drawings; his surname entered the English language by 1912 and named a Bletchley Park codebreaking machine.
Wade Cup
The Wade Cup is a cast brass bowl inlaid with silver, made in Iran in the early 1200s and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, famed for human- and animal-shaped Arabic script.
Wakizashi
Wakizashi (脇差, わきざし): Japanese short sword with a 30–60 cm blade, worn with the katana as the daishō pair; Edo-period samurai status sword, seppuku blade, forged like katana, regulated under Japan's Firearms and Swords Control Law.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903–1975) was an American photographer known for his Farm Security Administration Depression-era work and for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James Agee.
Walking Buddha of Sukhothai
The Walking Buddha of Sukhothai (Thai: Phra Phuttharup Pang Lila) is a Buddha image shown mid-stride with one hand raised in reassurance, invented by Sukhothai sculptors in 14th-century Thailand.
Walking Man I
Walking Man I (L'Homme qui marche I) is a life-size bronze sculpture of a striding man by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, made in Paris in 1960.
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring is a Southern Song silk painting by Ma Yuan of a scholar strolling with a zither-carrying servant boy, held in Taipei.
Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist and "father of the illustrated children's book," creator of color toy books with printer Edmund Evans, Arts and Crafts leader, and committed socialist illustrator.
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (1883–1969), German-born architect, founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 and directed it until 1928; designed the Fagus factory and Dessau Bauhaus building, then taught at Harvard and led TAC in the United States.
Walter Keane
Walter Keane, American promoter who took credit in the 1960s for the Big Eyes paintings his wife Margaret actually painted; exposed in 1970, lost a Honolulu court paint-off, awarded-damages case, died 2000 in Encinitas, California.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle (born 1949) is an American artist and photographer, partner of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; he secured Rustin's 2013 posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and leads the Bayard Rustin Fund.
Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942), German-born English painter, pupil of Whistler and friend of Degas; founder of the Camden Town Group, painter of music halls, Camden nudes and Dieppe townscapes; subject of a discredited Jack the Ripper claim.
Walter Spies
Walter Spies (1895–1942) was a Moscow-born German painter, musician, and curator who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1927, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association, and helped create the Kecak dance.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer), c. 1817/1818 oil on canvas by Caspar David Friedrich, Hamburger Kunsthalle HK-5161, acquired 1970; iconic Rückenfigur above fog, no pre-1939 provenance record.
Wang Bu
Wang Bu (王步, 1898–1968), courtesy name Renyuan, was a Chinese ceramic artist of Jingdezhen known as the "King of Blue-and-White" who specialized in underglaze blue-and-white porcelain painting.
Wang Gai
Wang Gai (王概) was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, best known as compiler of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.
Wang Hui
Wang Hui (王翚), courtesy name Shigu, was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty and one of the Four Wangs, best known for directing the Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour scrolls.
Wang Shen
Wang Shen (王诜, ca. 1036 – after 1093) was a Northern Song dynasty landscape painter, poet, and collector, known for Misty River and Layered Peaks.
Wang Shimin
Wang Shimin (王时敏, 1592–1680) was a Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher of Taicang, Jiangsu, eldest of the Four Wangs who led the Orthodox school of early Qing painting.
Wang Shixiang
Wang Shixiang (王世襄, courtesy name Chang'an, 1914–2009) was a Chinese connoisseur, collector, and expert on cultural relics whose systematic studies of Ming-style furniture and lacquerware founded new fields of scholarship.
Wang Yiting
Wang Yiting (王一亭, 1867–1938) was a Chinese painter, businessman, and Buddhist philanthropist in Shanghai, a leading figure of the Shanghai School of painting alongside Wu Changshuo.
Wang Zhaowen
Wang Zhaowen (王朝闻, 1909–2004) was a Chinese sculptor, art theorist, and aesthetician, born in Hejiang, Sichuan, who helped found Marxist art theory in China and compiled its first aesthetics textbook, Aesthetics Introduction.
Wangchuan Villa
Wangchuan Villa (辋川别业) was the Tang dynasty country estate of the poet-painter Wang Wei in Lantian County, Shaanxi, where he wrote the Wangchuan Collection with Pei Di.
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan American artist whose collages, sculpture, and film center hybrid female figures contesting Western representations of Black women and Africa.
War News from Mexico
War News from Mexico is an 1848 oil painting by American artist Richard Caton Woodville, showing a hotel porch crowd reacting to a newspaper dispatch from the Mexican-American War.
Warlugulong
Warlugulong is a series of five monumental acrylic paintings made from 1976 to 1979 by Western Desert artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, depicting the Bushfire Dreaming story of Lungkata.