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Dehua porcelain

Dehua porcelain (德化白瓷) is white porcelain made at kilns in Dehua County, Fujian, China, known for Ming dynasty ivory-white sculpture that Europeans named blanc de Chine.

Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯)

Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯, Dungeon Meshi) is Ryoko Kui's fantasy-gourmet manga, serialized in Harta 2014–2023 in 14 volumes, in which adventurers eat monsters to survive a dungeon; it won the 55th Seiun Award and the American Manga Award.

Della Robbia

Della Robbia was a Florentine family of sculptors whose three-generation workshop, active from about 1430 to 1550, invented and perfected tin-glazed terracotta sculpture in Italy and France.

Demas Nwoko

Demas Nwoko is a Nigerian artist and self-taught architect, a founding member of the Zaria Art Society who won the Venice Architecture Biennale's Golden Lion in 2023.

Demna (დემნა გვასალია) (designer)

Demna (Demna Gvasalia, დემნა გვასალია), Georgian designer born 1981 in Sukhumi, co-founded Vetements in 2014, was Balenciaga's artistic director 2015–2025, and became Gucci's artistic director in July 2025.

Demoscene

Demoscene (demo scene): international computer art subculture producing demos, non-interactive real-time audiovisual programs. Born in 1980s crack-intro piracy culture; demoparties, 4k/64k size comps, UNESCO heritage recognition.

Dempsey and Firpo

Dempsey and Firpo is a 1924 oil painting by American artist George Bellows showing Luis Ángel Firpo knocking heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey out of the ring at New York's Polo Grounds.

Den (comics)

Den is Richard Corben's fantasy comic character, David Ellis Norman transformed into a muscular adventurer in Neverwhere. Serialized in Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal 1977-78, adapted in the Heavy Metal film, restored by Dark Horse in five volumes 2023-2025.

Deng Shiru

Deng Shiru (1743–1805) was a Chinese calligrapher and seal carver of the Qing dynasty, first to fully embody the stele school and founder of a seal-carving school.

Departure and Return

Departure and Return (Chujing Rubi tu) is a pair of Ming dynasty handscrolls at the National Palace Museum in Taipei depicting a Ming emperor's tomb visit.

Depiction of Jesus

Depiction of Jesus: visual representation of Christ in Christian art, from beardless Roman catacomb Good Shepherd frescoes (2nd-4th century) through the 9th-century bearded Pantocrator type to white European, inculturated, cinematic, and AI-generated images.

Depictions of nudity

Depictions of nudity in art: the Western nude tradition from Greek athletes and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite through medieval suppression, Renaissance revival, academy practice, feminist reclamation, and AI moderation bias.

Depth of field

Depth of field is the range of object distances rendered acceptably sharp by a lens, set by aperture, focal length, subject distance, and the acceptable circle of confusion; includes hyperfocal distance, sensor-size effects, focus stacking, and synthetic smartphone bokeh.

Der Blaue Reiter

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider): Munich Expressionist group founded 1911 by Kandinsky and Marc; members Klee, Macke, Münter, Jawlensky; published the 1912 almanac; dissolved 1914 with World War I.

Derek Blasberg

Derek Blasberg (born 1982, St. Louis) is an American fashion writer, NYU graduate, first Head of Fashion & Beauty at YouTube (2018–2022), Vanity Fair special correspondent, Gagosian executive editor, and author of Classy and Fast + Louche.

Dérive

The dérive (drift) is a Situationist practice of aimless urban wandering defined by Guy Debord in 1956, tied to psychogeography, group drifts of two or three, and later walking-art and digital uses.

Descent from the Cross (Dionisius)

Descent from the Cross (Dionisius) is a 1502–1503 icon by the Moscow painter Dionysius and his workshop, now in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Descent of the Ganges (Mamallapuram)

The Descent of the Ganges, also called Arjuna's Penance or Gangavatarana, is a monumental 7th-century open-air rock relief at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, carved under the Pallava dynasty.

Destiny Deacon

Destiny Deacon (1957–2024) was a Kuku/Erub/Mer Australian artist and political activist whose photographs and installations used black dolls and Aboriginal kitsch to satirize racist stereotypes.

Detroit Industry Murals

The Detroit Industry Murals are 27 fresco panels painted by Diego Rivera in 1932 and 1933 at the Detroit Institute of Arts, depicting Detroit's industry.

Devětsil

Devětsil was a Czech avant-garde association of artists, writers, architects, and theater practitioners, founded in Prague in 1920, best known for the artistic program Poetism under Karel Teige.

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975) was an Indian sculptor and art educator known for the Triumph of Labour at Marina Beach, Chennai, and the Dandi March sculpture in New Delhi.

Deviant (comics)

Deviants (Homo descendus) is a fictional race of humanoids in Marvel Comics that features wildly varying physical characteristics across generations, first published by Jack Kirby in The Eternals (1976).

DeviantArt

DeviantArt (dA), founded August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and Angelo Sotira, is an online art-sharing community that began as a skins site, was acquired by Wix in 2017 for $36 million, hosts over 650 million artworks, and launched the DreamUp AI generator in 2022.

Devonshire Hunting Tapestries

The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are four large 15th-century wool hunting tapestries in the Victoria and Albert Museum, woven around 1425 to 1450, probably at Arras.

Dhruva Mistry

Dhruva Mistry (born 1957) is an Indian sculptor from Kanjari, Gujarat, known for monumental public works in Britain, most prominently the 1993 Victoria Square fountain ensemble in Birmingham.

Dia al-Azzawi

Dia al-Azzawi (ضياء العزاوي), born 1939, is an Iraqi painter and sculptor, a major figure of Arab modernism who has worked from exile in London since 1976.

Diagram

Diagram: a simplified drawing representing a machine, system, process, or idea to explain how it works, from Greek diágramma. Covers types (flowchart, Venn, tree), diagram versus chart selection, and the diagram's role in art theory and art history.

Dial H for Hero

Dial H for Hero is a DC Comics concept, the H-Dial rotary phone that turns its user into a random superhero for one hour. Created by Dave Wood and Jim Mooney in House of Mystery #156 (1966); dialers include Robby Reed, Chris King, Vicki Grant, Hero Cruz, and Miguel Montez.

Diana of Versailles

The Diana of Versailles (French: Diane à la biche, "Diana with the doe") is a Roman marble statue of Diana, copy of a Greek original attributed to Leochares, in the Louvre since 1798.