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Windsor Padshahnama
The Windsor Padshahnama is an illustrated imperial Mughal manuscript of the Padshahnama, the official chronicle of Emperor Shah-Jahan's reign, held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
Wine Cup of Jahangir
A wine cup of Jahangir is a drinking vessel made for the Mughal emperor, mostly carved from nephrite jade and inscribed with his titles, dates, and verses.
Wingdings
Wingdings is Microsoft's three-font symbol family (Wingdings 1, 2, 3) by Bigelow and Holmes, released 1992 with Windows 3.1, mapping keyboard characters to pictographs; distinct from Webdings (1997), later partly absorbed into Unicode 7.0.
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Νίκη της Σαμοθράκης)
Winged Victory of Samothrace (Νίκη της Σαμοθράκης), also Nike of Samothrace: Hellenistic marble statue of the goddess Nike on a warship prow, ca. 190 BCE, found 1863 by Champoiseau, displayed at the Louvre's Daru staircase since 1883.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter and illustrator, Harper's Weekly Civil War correspondent, Cullercoats and Prouts Neck marine painter, famed for watercolors and The Gulf Stream.
Winter – Fifth Avenue
Winter – Fifth Avenue is an 1893 black-and-white photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, showing a horse-drawn carriage moving down a snow-filled Fifth Avenue during a New York blizzard.
Winter Egg
The Winter Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1913, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Maria Feodorovna.
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks (寒林重汀圖, Kanrin jūtei zu) is a hanging scroll of ink and light color on silk attributed to the Five Dynasties painter Dong Yuan.
Wirephoto
Wirephoto is the transmission of news photographs over telephone and telegraph lines by facsimile, best known as the Associated Press service launched January 1, 1935.
Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment
Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment (智・感・情) is an 1897 oil triptych of a standing nude woman by Japanese painter Kuroda Seiki, which won a silver prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Wise and Benevolent Women
Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智图) is a Chinese handscroll in the Palace Museum, Beijing, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi and illustrating Liu Xiang's Biographies of Exemplary Women.
Withered Tree and Strange Rock
Withered Tree and Strange Rock (枯木怪石图), also known as Wood and Rock, is an ink handscroll attributed to Su Shi depicting a gnarled tree and rock.
Without Hope
Without Hope (Sin esperanza) is a 1945 oil painting by Frida Kahlo, showing the painter weeping in bed under an easel bearing a funnel of meat and a sugar skull.
Władysław Strzemiński
Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952) was a Polish painter, theorist, and teacher who created Unism, led the Łódź museum's modern art collection, and co-founded the city's art school.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer, born in Remscheid in 1968, who in 2000 became the first photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize.
Wolfsangel
Wolfsangel ("wolf's hook", Dopplehaken): German symbol based on a medieval wolf trap, common in heraldry, appropriated by Nazi SS divisions and later neo-Nazi groups; not a genuine rune.
Woman Applying Makeup
Woman Applying Makeup (Keshō no on'na) is a 1918 Japanese woodblock print by Hashiguchi Goyō, showing a woman powdering her shoulder before a hand mirror.
Woman I
Woman I is a large 1950–52 oil painting of a frontal female figure by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, the first of six Woman paintings, held at MoMA.
Wood carving
Wood carving: subtractive craft of shaping wood with knives, chisels, and gouges into sculpture, relief, ornament, and functional objects; also called Holzschnitzerei. Covers tool profiles, wood selection, chip and relief carving, and cultural traditions.
Woodblock printing in Japan
Woodblock printing in Japan (mokuhanga, ukiyo-e woodblock prints): a relief printing technique arriving in the 8th century, maturing into Edo-period multicolor nishiki-e after Harunobu's 1765 breakthrough, produced by publisher, designer, carver, and printer.
Woodcut
Woodcut (xylography) is a relief printmaking technique carving a design into a plank of wood, inked and printed from the raised surface; oldest print method, from China, with chiaroscuro, ukiyo-e, and linocut relatives.
Woods and Valleys of Yushan
Woods and Valleys of Yushan (虞山林壑图) is a hanging scroll by the Yuan dynasty painter Ni Zan, painted in 1371 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
World Festival of Black Arts
The First World Festival of Negro Arts was a 1966 festival of African and diaspora art held in Dakar, Senegal, initiated by President Léopold Sédar Senghor.
World of Art
World of Art (Mir iskusstva) was a St. Petersburg artistic and literary movement of the late 1890s and early 1900s, centered on Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev.
World of Volvo
World of Volvo is a brand experience centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 14 April 2024 as a joint venture of Volvo Cars and Volvo Group, replacing the Volvo Museum with a 22,000 m² Henning Larsen timber building and a 4,500 m² interactive exhibition.
Wrapped Reichstag
The Wrapped Reichstag (Verhüllter Reichstag) was a temporary 1995 environmental artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, wrapping the Reichstag building in Berlin in silver fabric for two weeks.
Wu Changshuo
Wu Changshuo (1844–1927) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet of the late Qing and early Republican period, the leading figure of the later Shanghai school.
Wu Changshuo's stone-bronze flower style
Wu Changshuo's stone-bronze flower style (金石写意花鸟) is a Chinese great freehand flower painting mode created by Wu Changshuo (1844–1927), which carried Stone Drum seal-script brushwork into painting and reshaped twentieth-century flower painting.
Wu Family Shrines
The Wu Family Shrines (武氏祠), also called the Wu Family Cemetery Stone Carvings, are Eastern Han stone shrines and reliefs in Jiaxiang County, Shandong, begun in 147 CE.
Wu Family Shrines Reliefs
The Wu Family Shrines reliefs (武氏祠画像石) are Eastern Han stone carvings from ancestral shrines in Jiaxiang County, Shandong, China, made in the late 2nd century CE.