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Emil Ruder
Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer and educator who led the typography department at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel and wrote Typographie: A Manual of Design (1967).
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (1846–1904) was a French glassmaker, ceramist, and furniture designer based in Nancy, a leading initiator of Art Nouveau who founded the École de Nancy.
Émile Mâle
Émile Mâle (1862–1954) was a French art historian whose 1898 book, L'Art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France, taught readers to see Gothic cathedrals as Christian teaching in stone and glass.
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879–1933) was a French furniture designer and interior decorator, a leading figure in Art Deco, known for luxurious pieces in rare exotic woods and ivory inlay.
Emilia Harcourt
Emilia Harcourt, DC Comics intelligence agent introduced in Suicide Squad (2016) #2, an NSA/ARGUS operative monitoring Task Force X; on screen played by Jennifer Holland in The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr (1871–1945), Canadian painter and writer of Victoria, British Columbia; associated with but never a member of the Group of Seven. Known for Pacific Northwest forest landscapes and First Nations totem-pole paintings, Klee Wyck (1941), and late recognition after the 1927 National Gallery exhibition.
Emily DiDonato
Emily DiDonato, American fashion model, face of Maybelline New York for ten years and Armani's Acqua di Gioia (2010); IMG model, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2013–2014, Covey Skin founder, Vichy global ambassador 2026.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also written Emily Kam Kngwarray, was an Anmatyerre artist from Utopia in the Northern Territory of Australia who produced over 3,000 paintings in her final eight years.
Emily the Strange
Emily the Strange: goth girl character created in 1991 by Nathan Carrico for Santa Cruz skateboards, developed by Rob Reger's Cosmic Debris, with four black cats, Dark Horse comics, novels, and merchandise.
Emma Sergeant
Emma Sergeant (born 1959, London) is a British portrait and figurative painter, Slade-trained, National Portrait Gallery Award winner, official artist on Prince of Wales tours, and painter of the 2022 Palio di Siena drappellone.
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer known for intimate portraits of his wife Edith and aerial photos of landscapes altered by human activity.
Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu
Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Shu (明皇幸蜀圖) is a Chinese blue-green landscape hanging scroll in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, depicting Emperor Xuanzong's flight to Sichuan in 755.
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy (步辇图, Bu Nian Tu) is a Tang dynasty silk handscroll attributed to Yan Liben, in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Emperor's Carpet
The Emperor's Carpet is a large Safavid Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1943.
En plein air
En plein air, French for "in the open air," is outdoor painting directly from the subject. Associated with the Impressionists, it developed via Valenciennes, the Barbizon school, and the 1841 collapsible paint tube.
Enamel paint
Enamel paint is a hard, glossy, wear-resistant organic coating with oil, alkyd, or synthetic resin binders, air-dried or baked ('Japan'); distinct from vitreous glass enamel; key alkyd chemistry dates to Kienle's 1927 patent and ICI's 1932 Dulux.
Encaustic painting
Encaustic painting: pigment mixed with beeswax, from Greek enkaustikos (burnt in). Oldest surviving works are the Fayum mummy portraits of Roman Egypt; revived by contemporary artists, who fuse wax layers with heat.
Endless Column
The Endless Column (Coloana fără sfârșit) is a 29.33-meter cast-iron sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, erected in 1938 at Târgu Jiu, Romania, as the centerpiece of his First World War memorial ensemble.
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance, the English phase of the European Renaissance (c. 1485–1660), was a literary and musical rather than visual-arts movement shaped by humanism, Caxton's printing press, the Reformation, and Elizabethan patronage, producing Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Milton.
Engraving
Engraving is an intaglio printmaking technique in which a burin cuts lines into a copper or steel plate; first printed around 1430 in Germany, refined by Schongauer and Dürer, distinct from etching and wood engraving.
Enguerrand Quarton
Enguerrand Quarton, also spelled Charonton, was a 15th-century French painter active in Provence, known for the Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the Coronation of the Virgin.
Enkū
Enkū (円空, 1632–1695) was a Japanese itinerant monk of the early Edo period who traveled from Hokkaido to Kansai carving tens of thousands of wooden Buddhist and Shinto statues for ordinary people.
Enzo Mari
Enzo Mari (1932–2020) was an Italian industrial designer, one of the most influential of the twentieth century, known for the 16 Animali puzzle and the Timor perpetual calendar.
Equestrian statue
Equestrian statue: free-standing monumental sculpture of a horse with a real rider; also equestrian monument, horse-and-rider statue. About 95% bronze; Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 175) is the only large ancient bronze survivor; Donatello's Gattamelata (1453) revived the form.
Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
The Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni is a gilded bronze monument by Andrea del Verrocchio, completed by Alessandro Leopardi and erected in Venice in 1496.
Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata
The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is a bronze monument by Donatello in Padua, installed in 1453, portraying Erasmo da Narni, a condottiere who led the Venetian army.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is a gilded bronze monument of the 170s C.E. showing the Roman emperor on horseback, the only ancient Roman equestrian statue to survive, housed in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Equivalents
Equivalents is a series of small black-and-white cloud photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, begun in 1922 at Lake George, New York, and widely cited as early abstract photographic art.
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl (born 1948) is an American painter and sculptor known for large naturalistic canvases depicting suburban life and sexuality, with breakthrough works including Sleepwalker (1979) and Bad Boy (1981).
Eric Gill
Eric Gill (Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, 1882–1940), English sculptor, letter-cutter, and typeface designer; pioneer of direct carving, designer of Gill Sans, Perpetua, and Joanna; maker of the Westminster Cathedral Stations of the Cross; reputation reshaped by his published diaries.