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Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants (Дмитрий Бальтерманц, 1912–1990) was a Soviet photojournalist and war correspondent who worked for Izvestia and Ogonyok, best known for Grief, his 1942 photograph of civilians mourning a German massacre in Crimea.
Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Levitzky (1735–1822) was a leading Russian portrait painter of the era of Catherine the Great and head of the portrait class of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh (서도호), born in Seoul in 1962, is a South Korean sculptor and installation artist best known for life-size, translucent fabric replicas of houses he has lived in.
Doctor Manhattan
Doctor Manhattan (Jon Osterman) is the only superpowered being in DC's Watchmen, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in Watchmen #1 (September 1986); a physicist transformed by an intrinsic-field accident, he is named for the Manhattan Project, shaped Cold War history, and appears in the 2009 film, HBO series, and 2024 animation.
Documentary photography
Documentary photography is a genre of still photography recording people, places, and social conditions, exemplified by Jacob Riis's slum photos and Lewis Hine's child labor images.
Dodging and burning
Dodging and burning are photographic printing techniques from the chemical darkroom that lighten or darken selected areas of a print, surviving as tools in editors like Photoshop.
Dogon dama funeral masks
Dogon dama funeral masks are wooden and fiber masks worn by initiated men of the Dogon people of Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment during the dama, the collective second funeral.
Dogon granary doors
Dogon granary doors are carved wooden doors, secured with sculpted locks, that close the grain granaries of the Dogon people of Mali along the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Dogon sculpture
Dogon sculpture is the carved wooden statuary and mask tradition of the Dogon people of Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, made for altars, funerary rites, and ancestor commemoration.
Dogpool
Dogpool (Mary Puppins) is a canine Deadpool variant from Marvel Comics' Deadpool Corps, Earth-103173, and the 2024 film Deadpool & Wolverine, played by Peggy, a Pug-Chinese Crested mix who won the UK's Ugliest Dog competition.
Dogs Playing Poker
Dogs Playing Poker is the informal name for Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's anthropomorphic dog paintings: an 1894 Poker Game, sixteen 1903–1910 Brown & Bigelow cigar-advertising oils, and a 1910 work, including A Friend in Need at the Smithsonian.
Dome of the mihrab of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
The dome of the mihrab of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba is a gilded tenth-century vault over the prayer niche, built under Caliph al-Hakam II with Byzantine mosaics.
Dome of the Rock mosaics
The Dome of the Rock mosaics are the gold-ground glass-tesserae mosaics of the Umayyad shrine in Jerusalem, completed in 691–692 under the caliph Abd al-Malik; the interior preserves the original scheme.
Domenichino
Domenichino, born Domenico Zampieri (1581–1641), was an Italian Baroque classicist painter of the Bolognese school, known for his Saint Cecilia frescoes in Rome and his cathedral work in Naples.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio, born Domenico Bigordi, was a Florentine painter of 1449–1494 whose frescoes, including the Tornabuoni Chapel cycle, portrayed citizens of his day; Michelangelo trained in his workshop.
Domenico Veneziano
Domenico Veneziano, born Domenico di Bartolomeo da Venezia in Venice about 1410, was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence, known for luminous color and perspective in landscape.
Dominick Labino
Dominick Labino (1910–1987) was an American glass research scientist and artist who, with Harvey Littleton, helped launch the American studio glass movement at the 1962 Toledo workshops.
Don Bachardy
Don Bachardy (Donald Jess Bachardy, born 1934) is an American portrait artist in Santa Monica, California, Isherwood's partner from 1953 to 1986, who completes roughly 17,000 portraits from life in single sittings signed by artist and sitter.
Don Gummer
Don Gummer (Donald James Gummer), American sculptor born 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky, husband (separated 2018) of Meryl Streep. Known for Constructivist-influenced wall reliefs and monumental bronze and steel sculptures, including Primary Separation at MASS MoCA.
Don McCullin
Don McCullin, born Donald McCullin in London in 1935, is a British photojournalist known for stark war photography, made chiefly for The Observer and The Sunday Times.
Don Rosa
Don Rosa (Keno Don Hugo Rosa, born 1951, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Disney comics writer-artist, creator of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, two-time Eisner Award winner, and Carl Barks's most prominent successor.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd (1928–1994), American Minimalist artist (a label he rejected), author of "Specific Objects" (1965), creator of industrially fabricated boxes, Marfa's Chinati Foundation, and the separate Donald Judd furniture line.
Donatello
Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, c. 1386–1466), Florentine early Renaissance sculptor, Ghiberti-trained, creator of the bronze David, rilievo schiacciato, and the Padua Gattamelata.
Đông Hồ painting
Đông Hồ painting, or Tranh Đông Hồ, is a Vietnamese folk art of multicolor woodblock prints made in Đông Hồ village near Hanoi, traditionally hung in homes at Tết.
Dong Xiwen
Dong Xiwen (董希文) was a Chinese oil painter and educator whose 1953 painting The Founding of the Nation became an exemplar of Chinese-style oil painting.
Dong-Ju school
Dong-Ju is the paired name of Five Dynasties painters Dong Yuan and Juran, founders of southern Chinese landscape painting known for hemp-fiber strokes and misty Jiangnan scenery.
Doodle
Doodle: a casual, aimless drawing made while attention is elsewhere. Covers the word's history, Andrade's 29% memory finding, 2024 failures to replicate, doodling versus task-relevant drawing, and machine doodling.
Doonesbury
Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau's political comic strip (from Bull Tales), debuted October 26, 1970 in 28 newspapers via Universal Press Syndicate; first comic strip to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1975), Sunday-only since 2014.
Dora Carrington
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), English painter and decorative artist of the Bloomsbury circle, known as Carrington; Slade-trained portraitist and landscape painter devoted to Lytton Strachey, rarely exhibited in her lifetime, revived posthumously.
Dora Maar
Dora Maar (Henriette Théodora Markovitch, 1907–1997) was a French Surrealist photographer and painter, Picasso's partner and muse, who documented Guernica's creation and ran a 1930s commercial studio.