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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Angulo (1932–2023), Colombian painter and sculptor of Medellín, creator of Boterismo, the style of inflated, voluminous figures. Known for the Museo Botero donation, Abu Ghraib series, and monumental bronzes; died in Monaco aged 91.
Fernando Zóbel
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo (1924–1984) was a Spanish-Filipino abstract painter, collector, and museum founder who moved to Madrid in 1961 and founded the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca.
Ficoroni Cista
The Ficoroni Cista is an engraved bronze toiletries box made between 350 and 330 BC, found at Praeneste in 1738 and now in Rome's Villa Giulia museum.
Fido Dido
Fido Dido, the spiky-haired cartoon mascot created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose in 1985, licensed to PepsiCo for 7 Up advertising worldwide and Slice in the US, revived repeatedly since the 2000s.
Figment (Disney)
Figment is a small purple dragon mascot of EPCOT's Imagination Pavilion at Walt Disney World, created by Imagineers Tony Baxter and Steve Kirk and debuting March 1983 in Journey Into Imagination; originally green, recolored purple for sponsor Kodak, star of three ride versions.
Figure painting
Figure painting (人物画, renwu hua) is the major Chinese painting genre in which the human figure is the principal subject, one of three classical divisions alongside landscape and bird-and-flower painting.
Filipino colonial ivory carving
Filipino colonial ivory carving, known as garing, is the tradition of Christian ivory sculpture produced in the Spanish colonial Philippines and exported worldwide through the Manila Galleon trade.
Filipino Struggles Through History
Filipino Struggles Through History is a 1964 oil mural by Carlos Botong Francisco tracing Manila's history, displayed in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Manila.
Filippo Lippi
Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469), Florentine Carmelite friar and Early Renaissance painter. Known as Fra Filippo Lippi; father of Filippino Lippi. Masaccio-influenced style; Prato Duomo fresco cycle (1452–65); Medici patron; scandal with Lucrezia Buti.
Film poster
Film poster: printed or digital advertising image for a movie, also called movie poster or one-sheet (27x40 in US). Combines title, credits and key art to signal genre and tone; spans lithographic 1890s origins to streaming thumbnails.
Film speed
Film speed measures a photographic film's light sensitivity, now rated on the ISO scale that merged ASA and DIN systems. Higher ISO means faster film, larger grain, and use in low light.
Fin de siècle
Fin de siècle (French, "end of the century") names the late 19th century as both a period and a sensibility of decline and modernity, tied to decadence, symbolism, aestheticism, and art nouveau; periodization spans 1870–1914.
Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl (1912–1989) was a Danish architect and self-taught furniture designer, a central figure of Danish Modern known for the Chieftain Chair and the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber.
Fire-gilding
Fire-gilding, also called mercury or amalgam gilding, applies a gold-mercury paste to metal and heats it so the mercury evaporates, leaving a bonded gold layer.
Firestorm (character)
Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein) is a DC Comics superhero, the fused "Nuclear Man" of the Firestorm Matrix, debuting in Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #1 (1978) by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, with transmutation powers and a 2026 Lemire series.
First Hen Egg
The First Hen Egg, also called the Hen Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg in 1885 as the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs.
First Impressionist Exhibition
First Impressionist Exhibition (Première exposition impressionniste), held April 15–May 15, 1874 at Nadar's studio, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris; organized by the Société Anonyme, showed about 200 works, drew 3,500 visitors, and gave rise to the name impressionism.
Fishermen
Fishermen, or yufu (渔父), is a standard subject of Chinese literati painting in which the solitary angler symbolizes the scholar recluse, from the Tang dynasty onward.
Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane, born Nathaniel Rogers Lane and long known as Fitz Hugh Lane, was an American marine painter and printmaker from Gloucester, Massachusetts, celebrated for luminous harbor scenes in the Luminist style.
Five Oxen
Five Oxen (五牛图, Wuniu tu) is a Tang dynasty handscroll painting by the chancellor Han Huang showing five oxen, held in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Five-colored Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Branch
Five-colored Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Branch (五色鸚鵡圖, also called Apricot Blossom Parakeet) is a Song handscroll attributed to Emperor Huizong, datable to the 1110s, held in Boston.
Five-pointed star
Five-pointed star: a five-point star figure, the heraldic mullet, introduced to national flags by the US Flag Act of 1777; distinct from the intersecting-line pentagram, rare on flags (Ethiopia, Morocco).
Flag of Austria
Flag of Austria (Österreichische Flagge): horizontal red-white-red triband, defined in the 1984 Wappengesetz and Article 8a B-VG, with Babenberg origins by 1230, first legally described in 1919, banned 1938–1945 and restored in May 1945.
Flag of Brazil
Flag of Brazil (Bandeira do Brasil): green field, yellow rhombus, blue celestial globe with 27 stars and motto Ordem e Progresso; adopted 19 November 1889, regulated by Law 5,700/1971.
Flag of Devon
Flag of Devon, also called St Petroc's Cross: county flag of Devon, England, a white cross edged black on green, designed by Ryan R. Sealey, chosen by BBC Devon public vote, registered 23 July 2002.
Flag of Iran
Flag of Iran (پرچم ایران): the Islamic Republic's green-white-red tricolor with the red tulip-shaped Allah emblem and 22 Allahu Akbar inscriptions, adopted in 1980 to replace the pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag enshrined in the 1906 constitution.
Flag of Morocco
The flag of Morocco is a red flag with a green interlaced pentagram, adopted by Sultan Yusef in 1915 to distinguish it from other red flags.
Flag of Puerto Rico
The flag of Puerto Rico (La Monoestrellada), official since 1952 and designed in 1895 in New York as the color-inverse of Cuba's flag: five red and white stripes, blue hoist triangle, white star, shade of blue legally unspecified.
Flag of Wales
Flag of Wales (Baner Cymru, Y Ddraig Goch): national flag showing a red dragon passant on white over green, officially adopted February 1959 by royal decree; dragon symbol dates to Cadwaladr c. 655 CE and Henry VII's Tudor colours.
Flag-Smasher
Flag-Smasher: Marvel Comics anti-nationalist terrorist created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, first appearing in Captain America #312 (December 1985) as Karl Morgenthau; later Guy Thierrault; adapted as Karli Morgenthau's Flag Smashers in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.