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Dunhuang murals
Dunhuang murals (敦煌壁画) are Buddhist wall paintings preserved in the cave temples of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, above all the Mogao Caves, produced over about a thousand years.
Dunhuang sculpture
Dunhuang sculpture (敦煌彩塑) is the Buddhist painted clay sculpture preserved in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, Gansu, China, made from the fifth century to the Qing dynasty.
Duobao Pagoda Stele
The Duobao Pagoda Stele (多宝塔碑) is a stone stele erected in 752 during the Tang dynasty, bearing regular-script calligraphy by the master Yan Zhenqing, preserved in the Xi'an Beilin Museum.
Đura Jakšić
Đura Jakšić, born Georgije Jakšić, was a Serbian painter, poet, and dramatist, one of the leading figures of Serbian Romanticism in both art and literature, active from the 1850s until his death in 1878.
Durant Sihlali
Durant Sihlali (1935–2004) was a South African painter, sculptor, and teacher best known for watercolors documenting black urban life under apartheid, from forced removals to the 1976 Soweto uprising.
Durga of Prambanan
Durga of Prambanan is an eight-armed 9th-century stone statue of the goddess Durga slaying the buffalo demon, set in the Shiva temple at Prambanan, Central Java.
Dushan Great Jade Sea
The Dushan Great Jade Sea (渎山大玉海), also called the Jade Urn, is a giant jade wine vessel made for Kublai Khan and completed in 1265, the largest surviving ancient jade object in China.
Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting (Düsseldorfer Malerschule) comprises over a thousand painters trained at the Düsseldorf academy from 1819 to 1918, most influential between 1830 and 1870.
Düsseldorf School of Photography
The Düsseldorf School of Photography, also called the Becher School or Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, is a group of photographers taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1976.
Dustheads
Dustheads is a large 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat depicting two brightly colored figures against intense blackness, referring to users of the drug PCP; its 2013 sale for $48,843,750 set an auction record for the artist.
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting, also called 17th-century Dutch painting, is the art of the Dutch Republic from 1588 to 1672, defined by a mass middle-class art market, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals.
Dvaravati art
Dvaravati art is the Buddhist art of Mon communities in central Thailand from the 6th to 11th centuries, known for stone Buddhas and wheels of the law.
Dvaravati Buddha
The Dvaravati Buddha is a Buddha image type produced in central Thailand between the 6th and 11th centuries under the Mon-speaking Dvaravati culture, typically a standing figure holding both hands in the gesture of instruction.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (富春山居图) is a Yuan dynasty ink landscape handscroll by Huang Gongwang, begun in 1347, depicting the Fuchun River in Zhejiang and split by a 1651 fire into two sections.
Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains
Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains (青卞隐居图) is a 1366 ink hanging scroll by the Yuan painter Wang Meng, depicting Bian Mountain and held by the Shanghai Museum.
Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul is an ancient Roman marble statue of a wounded Celtic warrior in the Capitoline Museums, Rome, copied from a lost Hellenistic bronze of about 220 BC.
E. C. Segar
E. C. Segar (Elzie Crisler Segar, 1894–1938), American cartoonist from Chester, Illinois, creator of the comic strip Thimble Theatre (1919) and the sailor Popeye (1929), whose spinach-loving character drove a 33% US spinach-consumption rise.
E. H. Shepard
E. H. Shepard (Ernest Howard Shepard, 1879–1976), English illustrator and Punch cartoonist who drew the original Winnie-the-Pooh, modeled on his son's bear Growler, and The Wind in the Willows, and won the Military Cross in WWI.
E. McKnight Kauffer
E. McKnight Kauffer, born Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), was an American graphic designer in London whose modernist posters for the London Underground made him Britain's leading poster artist.
E. O. Hoppé
E. O. Hoppé, born Emil Otto Hoppé, was a German-born British photographer known for portraits of the famous and street photographs of ordinary British people.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (Edward James Muggeridge, 1830–1904), English-born American photographer of the West who proved with 1878 Sallie Gardner photos that galloping horses go airborne, invented the zoopraxiscope, and published Animal Locomotion (1887).
Eames furniture
Eames furniture is the chairs and tables designed by Charles and Ray Eames, manufactured by Herman Miller and Vitra, including the 1956 Lounge Chair and fiberglass shell chairs.
Eames Lounge Chair
Eames Lounge Chair (models 670/671), designed 1956 by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller; molded plywood shells, leather cushions, swivel base; in continuous production, licensed also by Vitra, held at MoMA.
Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture, also called paleo-Christian art, is the visual culture of Christians in the Roman Mediterranean from about 200 CE (catacomb paintings, Good Shepherd imagery) through the basilica churches and gold-ground mosaics of the fourth to sixth centuries, ending with Byzantine art under Justinian.
Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting, also called the Flemish Primitives, is 15th- and 16th-century painting of the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands, begun by Robert Campin and Jan van Eyck around 1420 and known for luminous oil painting, detailed realism, and the Ghent altarpiece.
Early Snow on the River
Early Snow on the River (江行初雪图) is a handscroll of ink and color on silk by the Southern Tang painter Zhao Gan, dated around 960, showing fishermen and travelers in the first snowfall.
Early Sunday Morning
Early Sunday Morning is a 1930 oil painting by Edward Hopper depicting a row of empty two-story storefronts on a New York street in strong morning light.
Earring
An earring is a piece of jewelry worn through a pierced opening in the ear or attached with a clip, worn on the earlobe or cartilage.
Earth's Creation
Earth's Creation is a monumental 1994 abstract painting by Anmatyerr artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, made in four panels depicting her desert homeland after heavy rain.
Earthrise
Earthrise: the photograph of Earth rising above the lunar horizon, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968 (NASA frame AS08-14-2383), unplanned, and credited with galvanizing the environmental movement and the first Earth Day.