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Yamai no sōshi
Yamai no sōshi (病草紙), meaning "Scroll of Diseases," is a late Heian period Japanese handscroll of the 12th century showing tales of unusual diseases, deformities, and treatments.
Yamato-e
Yamato-e (大和絵) is a genre of traditional Japanese painting that flourished from the Heian period (794–1185), depicting Japanese literature, seasons, and court life in bright pigments.
Yang Pengnian
Yang Pengnian (杨彭年) was a Chinese Yixing zisha potter of the Qing dynasty, best known for making the Mansheng pots designed by the scholar Chen Hongshou.
Yangcai
Yangcai (洋彩, "foreign colors") is Chinese porcelain painted in opaque overglaze enamels of European origin, the famille rose palette, with body and decoration both made at the Jingdezhen imperial kilns.
Yangliuqing woodblock prints
Yangliuqing woodblock prints (杨柳青木版年画) are traditional Chinese new year pictures made in Yangliuqing town, Tianjin, using a half printed, half painted technique, listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
Yangzhou Eccentrics
The Yangzhou Eccentrics (扬州八怪), also called the Yangzhou school, were a group of painters in Qing dynasty Yangzhou who rejected orthodox conventions for expressive, individualist ink freehand work.
Yanta Sacred Teaching Preface
The Yanta Sacred Teaching Preface (雁塔聖教序), also called the Cien Temple Sacred Teaching Preface, is a pair of 653 steles at the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, written by the Tang calligrapher Chu Suiliang.
Yaozhou ware
Yaozhou ware (耀州窑) is a Chinese celadon produced from the Tang dynasty at kilns in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, reaching its peak in the Northern Song (960–1127).
Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel of the 1990s (Pakistani-German, born 1971 in Montreal), discovered at a McDonald's, famed for her runway walk, first South Asian Vogue-cover and Victoria's Secret model per Vogue, retired 1997.
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元泰博, 1921–2012) was a Japanese-American photographer trained at Chicago's Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus, whose images of Chicago, Tokyo, and Katsura Imperial Villa shaped postwar Japanese photography.
Yasui Sōtarō
Yasui Sōtarō (安井曾太郎, 1888–1955) was a Japanese painter of yōga, Western-style oil painting, whose portrait manner, the Yasui style, dominated the early Shōwa era with Umehara Ryūzaburō.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉康雄, 1889 to 1953) was a Japanese-born painter who spent his career in New York and became a leading figure of American modernism.
Yasuzō Nojima
Yasuzō Nojima (野島康三, 1889–1964) was a Japanese photographer, also read Hiromasa, known for portraits and nudes who moved from pictorialism to straight photography and co-founded the magazine Kōga in 1932.
Yaxchilan Lintel 24
Yaxchilan Lintel 24 is a carved Maya limestone relief from 709 CE showing Queen Lady K'ab'al Xook in a bloodletting ritual, now in the British Museum.
Yaxchilan Lintel 25
Yaxchilan Lintel 25 is a carved Maya limestone lintel showing Queen Lady K'ab'al Xook conjuring a Vision Serpent; it is now in the British Museum.
Yaxchilan lintels
The Yaxchilan lintels are carved limestone door beams from the Late Classic Maya city of Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico, among the greatest reliefs of the ancient Americas.
Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生)
Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生), Japanese avant-garde artist and novelist (1929–2026), known for polka dots, Infinity Net paintings, soft-sculpture Accumulations, mirrored Infinity Mirror Rooms, self-obliteration, and representing Japan at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
Ye Qianyu
Ye Qianyu (叶浅予, 1907–1995) was a Chinese cartoonist and painter from Tonglu, Zhejiang, who created the comic strip "Mr. Wang" and became a leading painter of dancers in modern Chinese ink painting.
Yelena Yemchuk (Єлена Ємчук)
Yelena Yemchuk (Єлена Ємчук), born 1970 in Kyiv, is a Ukrainian-American photographer, painter, and filmmaker in New York; Smashing Pumpkins video director whose photobooks Gidropark, Odesa, and Malanka examine Ukrainian identity.
Yellow Crane Tower
Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) is a tower on Snake Hill in Wuhan, China, first built in 223 AD and subject of Cui Hao's celebrated Tang poem.
Yevgeny Khaldei
Yevgeny Khaldei (1917–1997) was a Soviet war photographer for TASS, best known for his 1945 photograph of soldiers raising a Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin.
Yi Am
Yi Am (李巖, 1507–1566) was a Korean painter of the Joseon dynasty and a member of the royal family, regarded as the founding master of Korean animal painting.
Yi Jeong
Yi Jeong (이정, 李霆; pen name Taneun) was a mid-Joseon dynasty poet, calligrapher, and painter, a great-great-grandson of King Sejong and the most renowned Korean master of ink bamboo painting.
Yi Sang-beom
Yi Sang-beom (이상범, pen name Cheongjeon, 1897–1972) was a Korean ink landscape painter born in Gongju whose foreground-centered rural scenes, developed after 1945, are known as the Cheongjeon style.
Yique Buddha Niche Stele
The Yique Buddha Niche Stele (Yique Fokan Bei) is a 641 Tang dynasty cliff carving at the Longmen Grottoes, written in regular script by Chu Suiliang.
Yirrkala Church Panels
The Yirrkala Church Panels are two large ochre paintings by senior Yolŋu artists at Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, painted in 1962 and 1963 for the mission church altar.
Yōfū-ga
Yōfū-ga (洋風画) is Japanese painting made before the Meiji period with Western methods, chiefly shading and perspective; its leading artists included Odano Naotake, Satake Shozan, and Shiba Kōkan.
Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl
The Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl (曜変天目茶碗) is a black-glazed Jian kiln tea bowl from 12th to 13th century China, marked by blue-lustered spots; three survive, all in Japan.
Yoko Ono (小野 洋子)
Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, Ono Yōko), born February 18, 1933, in Tokyo, is a Japanese avant-garde artist, musician, and peace activist; a Fluxus and conceptual-art pioneer known for Grapefruit, Cut Piece, Wish Trees, and peace campaigns with John Lennon.
Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva
A Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva is a gilt-bronze image of the bodhisattva Vajrasattva made under the Ming Yongle emperor, bearing the six-character mark Da Ming Yongle nian shi.