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Gerard David
Gerard David was a Netherlandish painter, born about 1455 in Oudewater and died in 1523 in Bruges, where he led the city's school after Memling died in 1494.
Gerard Sekoto
Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993) was a South African painter and pioneer of urban Black art, known for township scenes and for spending most of his life in exile in Paris.
Gerard ter Borch
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681) was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes, based in Deventer, known for small interior pictures of elegant figures and his 1648 Treaty of Münster group portrait.
Gerard van Honthorst
Gerard van Honthorst (Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656), Utrecht Caravaggist nicknamed Gherardo delle Notti for candlelit night scenes; court painter to Charles I, Christian IV, and the Dutch House of Orange.
Gerda Flöckinger
Gerda Flöckinger, born 1927 in Innsbruck, is an Austrian-born jeweler working in London who pioneered British contemporary studio jewelry and showed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gerda Wegener
Gerda Wegener (1885–1940), born Gerda Gottlieb, Danish painter and illustrator of Paris fashion magazines such as La Vie Parisienne and Vogue; wife and portraitist of Lili Elbe; Art Deco erotic art; Arken 2015 retrospective.
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a German painter born in 1932. He is known for his blurred photo-paintings and squeegee abstractions, and received the Golden Lion in 1997.
Germain Pilon
Germain Pilon was a French Renaissance sculptor, active in Paris from about 1558 to 1590, best known for the tomb of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis at Saint-Denis.
Germaine Krull
Germaine Krull (1897–1985) was a German-born photographer and writer, a major figure of the interwar European avant-garde best known for her 1928 industrial portfolio Métal.
Germaine Richier
Germaine Richier (1902–1959) was a French sculptor, trained in the bronze tradition of Rodin and Bourdelle, known for hybrid human, animal, and plant figures after World War II.
Gero Cross
The Gero Cross (Gerokreuz), also called the Gero Crucifix, is a monumental oak crucifix in Cologne Cathedral, carved around 965–970 and probably commissioned by Archbishop Gero of Cologne.
Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (Gerard Dou) was a Dutch painter who founded the Leiden school of fijnschilderij. His small, detailed works, developed as Rembrandt's first pupil, were highly valued.
Gertrude Käsebier
Gertrude Käsebier, born Gertrude Stanton, was an American pictorial photographer, one of the foremost American portrait photographers around 1900 and a founding member of the Photo-Secession.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, Vanderbilt heiress, and leading patron of American art; founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1930 after the Met declined her collection.
Gesso
Gesso, Italian for gypsum, is the traditional white ground of gypsum or chalk bound with animal-glue size, applied in coarse (grosso) and fine (sottile) layers to panels for painting and gilding; modern acrylic versions prime canvas.
Getty Images
Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), founded 1995 by Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein, is a Seattle-based visual content and stock licensing company (brands Getty Images, iStock, Unsplash). Distinguished by its deep editorial archive, failed $3.7B Shutterstock merger, Stability AI lawsuit, and October 2026 Koch-backed prepackaged bankruptcy.
Gevorg Bashinjaghian
Gevorg Bashinjaghian (Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան) was an Armenian painter, born in Signakhi, Georgia in 1857, who founded landscape painting in Armenian art and painted Lake Sevan and Mount Ararat.
Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a 1432 polyptych by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, famed for its thefts, Nazi looting, and the 2012-2026 restoration revealing 16th-century overpaint.
Gia Carangi
Gia Carangi (Gia Marie Carangi, 1960-1986), American fashion model from Philadelphia, sometimes called the first supermodel; Cosmopolitan and Vogue covers, von Wangenheim and Scavullo shoots, died of AIDS at 26.
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) was an Italian painter, a leading Futurist best known for his 1912 motion studies such as Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
Giambologna
Giambologna (1529–1608), born Jean de Boulogne in Douai, was a Flemish-born sculptor who became the Medici court sculptor in Florence, famous for the Rape of the Sabines.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of Roman Baroque style, creator of the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Saint Peter's baldacchino and colonnade, Apollo and Daphne, and the Fountain of the Four Rivers.
Gianni Berengo Gardin
Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–2025) was an Italian photographer, born in Santa Margherita Ligure, who was a leading Italian photojournalist and published over 250 photographic books.
Giant-Man
Giant-Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, first the size-growing alias of Hank Pym (debut Tales to Astonish #49, November 1963, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), later held by Bill Foster from Marvel Two-in-One #55 (1979).
Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl was an idealized female figure created by Charles Dana Gibson in the 1890s. She became the dominant visual standard of feminine beauty until 1913.
Giclée
Giclée is a fine-art term for a high-resolution inkjet print made with pigment- or dye-based inks on archival paper or canvas, coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid (Jelena Noura Hadid, born 1995) is an American supermodel of Dutch and Palestinian descent, IMG-signed since 2013, with 35+ Vogue covers, Victoria's Secret shows, and her knitwear brand Guest in Residence.
Gil Kane
Gil Kane (Eli Katz, 1926–2000), Latvian-born American comic book artist of the Silver Age; co-created DC's Green Lantern and the Atom, Marvel's Morbius, Iron Fist, and Adam Warlock, and the early graphic novel Blackmark.
Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George: British artist duo of Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943, Italy) and George Passmore (b. 1942, Devon), 'living sculptures' since 1969, creators of grid photopieces under the motto 'Art for All', Turner Prize 1986, with their own Spitalfields centre since 2023.
Gilbert Baker (artist)
Gilbert Baker (1951–2017), American artist and LGBTQ activist, creator of the rainbow pride flag, first flown June 25, 1978 at San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade; original eight-stripe design reduced to six in 1979; MoMA acquired it in 2015.