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Zacharie Vincent
Zacharie Vincent (Telari-o-lin) was a Huron-Wendat painter and war chief at Wendake, Quebec, one of the first Indigenous artists in Canada to adopt European easel painting.
Zahari Zograf
Zahari Zograf (Захари Зограф, 1810–1853) was a Bulgarian painter and icon painter from Samokov whose murals at Rila and other monasteries and first easel portraits founded Bulgarian secular painting.
Zainul Abedin
Zainul Abedin (জয়নুল আবেদিন, 1914–1976) was a Bengali painter from Mymensingh, considered the founding figure of Bangladeshi modern art and best known for the Famine Sketches of the 1943 Bengal Famine.
Zanabazar
Zanabazar, known in Tibetan as Blo bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan, was the First Jebtsundamba Khutuktu of Khalkha Mongolia, famed for gilded bronze Buddhas and Taras.
Zanabazar school
The Zanabazar school is a school of Mongolian Buddhist sculpture founded in the late seventeenth century by Zanabazar, regarded as the beginning of native Mongolian sculpture.
Zanabazar's White Tara
Zanabazar's White Tara, or Tsagaan Dar Ekh, is a gilt bronze sculpture of the Buddhist goddess White Tara made in the late 17th century by Zanabazar, Mongolia's most celebrated sculptor.
Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki (趙無極, 1920–2013) was a Chinese-French painter who merged Chinese brushwork with the School of Paris, becoming a leading figure of lyrical abstraction in Europe.
Zapatista Landscape
Zapatista Landscape (Paisaje zapatista, also El guerrillero) is a 1915 Cubist oil painting by Diego Rivera, held at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.
Zapotec funerary urns
Zapotec funerary urns are ceramic effigy vessels made by the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico, between about 100 BCE and 700 CE and placed in or around elite tombs.
Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi, known professionally as Zarina, was an Indian-born American artist and printmaker who lived in New York City and made minimalist works on paper exploring home, borders, and migration.
Zauriel
Zauriel, DC Comics angel superhero created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter, first appearing in JLA #6 (1997); a former Hawkman substitute, Eagle Host guardian angel, Justice League member, and 2024 Outsiders returnee.
Zbruch Idol
The Zbruch Idol, also called the Zbruch Sviatovyd, is a four-faced stone statue pulled from the Zbruch River in Ukraine in 1848, kept in Kraków since 1851.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor from Sanok known for dark fantastic paintings. Trained architect, Antyfotografia photographer, Warsaw fantastic period, murdered in 2005; largest collection in Sanok.
Zellige
Zellige (زليج), also spelled zellij or zillij, is the hand-cut glazed ceramic tile mosaic of Morocco and al-Andalus, cut with a hammer into precise geometric star patterns.
Zenga
Zenga (禅画), meaning "Zen painting," is Japanese ink painting and calligraphy by Zen monk-painters, chiefly of the Edo period (1615–1868), used as a tool of spiritual teaching.
Zenkō-ji Amida Triad
The Zenkō-ji Amida Triad, also called Zenkō-ji Nyorai, is a secret Buddha at Zenkō-ji temple in Nagano, Japan, showing Amida flanked by Kannon and Seishi within a single halo.
Zha Shibiao
Zha Shibiao (查士標, 1615–1698), courtesy name Erzhan, was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet of the early Qing dynasty, counted among the Four Masters of the Xin'an school.
Zhang Chongren
Zhang Chongren (1907–1998) was a Chinese sculptor and painter, trained in Brussels, who modeled for the character Chang in Hergé's Tintin album The Blue Lotus.
Zhang Ding
Zhang Ding (张仃, 1917–2010) was a Chinese painter, designer, and art educator who helped design the PRC national emblem and led the 1979 Capital Airport mural project.
Zhang Geng
Zhang Geng (張庚, 1685–1760) was a Qing dynasty painter, connoisseur, and art historian from Xiushui, Zhejiang, known for the Guochao Huazheng Lu and the treatise Pushan Lun Hua.
Zhang Leping
Zhang Leping (张乐平) was a Chinese cartoonist, born in Haiyan County, Zhejiang in 1910, who created the comic boy Sanmao, first published in 1935 and famous across 20th-century China.
Zhang Peili
Zhang Peili (张培力), born 1957 in Hangzhou, is a Chinese contemporary artist regarded as China's first video artist, known for 30 x 30 (1988) and his 'X?' glove paintings.
Zhang Qian Stele
The Zhang Qian Stele (张迁碑) is a Chinese stone stele of 186 CE honoring the Eastern Han official Zhang Qian, famous for its square-brush clerical script calligraphy.
Zhang Sengyou
Zhang Sengyou (张僧繇) was a 6th-century court painter of China's Liang dynasty, one of the Six Dynasties masters, known for Indian-derived concave-convex shading and the dragon-painting idiom hua long dian jing.
Zhao Shao'ang
Zhao Shao'ang (赵少昂, 1905–1998) was a Chinese painter of the Lingnan School, best known for his flower-and-bird paintings and based in Hong Kong from 1948.
Zhao Wangyun
Zhao Wangyun (赵望云, 1906–1977) was a Chinese ink painter known for rural sketch reporting from 1932 and as founding figure of the Chang'an School in Xi'an.
Zhao Zhiqian
Zhao Zhiqian (赵之谦, 1829–1884) was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and seal carver of the late Qing dynasty, a forerunner of the Shanghai School who influenced Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi.
Zhe School
The Zhe School (浙派) was a school of professional painters in Ming dynasty China, founded by Dai Jin of Zhejiang, who continued the Southern Song academic landscape style.
Zhong Qiu Tie
Zhong Qiu Tie (中秋帖) is a cursive-script handscroll attributed to Wang Xianzhi, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and generally considered a Song copy by Mi Fu.
Zhongshan Going on Excursion
Zhongshan Going on Excursion (中山出遊圖) is a Yuan dynasty handscroll by Gong Kai showing Zhong Kui and his sister, held in the Freer Gallery of Art.