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Ham's Redemption
Ham's Redemption (A Redenção de Cam) is an 1895 oil painting by Modesto Brocos in Rio de Janeiro's Museu Nacional de Belas Artes depicting three generations of a family whitening through miscegenation, the emblematic image of Brazil's whitening ideology.
Hammerhead (character)
Hammerhead (Joseph) is a Marvel Comics Spider-Man villain, a Maggia crime boss created by Gerry Conway and John Romita, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #113 (1972) with a steel-reinforced skull and 1920s mobster persona.
Hamsa Damayanti
Hamsa Damayanti, also titled Damayanti and the Hamsa, is an 1899 oil painting by the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma, showing Damayanti listening to a celestial swan messenger.
Han dynasty tomb figurines
Han dynasty tomb figurines (汉代陶俑) are pottery figures placed in Han tombs across China from 202 BCE to 220 CE to accompany and serve the dead in the afterlife.
Han Gan
Han Gan (韩干) was a Tang dynasty painter best known for his paintings of horses, including Night-Shining White, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Han gilt bronzes
Han gilt bronzes are Han dynasty bronzes decorated by fire gilding, a technique that reached maturity and wide use under the Han (202 BCE to 220 CE).
Han pictorial stone and brick carving
Han pictorial stone and brick carving (汉画像石、画像砖) is carved and molded imagery from China's Han dynasty, forming the largest surviving body of Han pictorial art.
Han van Meegeren
Han van Meegeren (Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, 1889–1947), Dutch painter and celebrated art forger who faked Vermeers, de Hooches, and Frans Hals; his Supper at Emmaus fooled experts, and he beat a Nazi-collaboration death charge by proving his forgeries.
Hand-colouring of photographs
Hand-colouring of photographs is manually adding color to monochrome photographs with dyes, oils, or pencils, the only color option from the 1840s to the early 1900s.
Hand-in-waistcoat
The hand-in-waistcoat, also called the hidden hand, is a portrait pose with one hand tucked inside the waistcoat, now most associated with Napoleon I through David's 1812 painting.
Handscroll
A handscroll (手卷), also called changjuan, is a horizontal format of Chinese painting and calligraphy viewed by unrolling it section by section on a table, from right to left.
Hanging scroll
The hanging scroll (立轴) is a vertical format of Chinese painting and calligraphy, mounted on backing with silk borders and hung on a wall, rolled up for storage.
Haniwa (埴輪)
Haniwa (埴輪), also called clay cylinders or tomb sculptures, are unglazed earthenware figures placed on Japanese kofun burial mounds during the Kofun period (ca. 300–710 CE), originating from Yayoi vessel stands in Kibi and declining with Buddhism's rise.
Hank Ketcham
Hank Ketcham (Henry King Ketcham, 1920–2001), American cartoonist, Seattle-born, creator of the Dennis the Menace daily panel (debut 1951), former Disney animator, Reuben Award winner, retired 1994.
Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas, born 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey, is an American conceptual artist known for the Unbranded advertising series and The Embrace, the 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. monument on the Boston Common.
Hanlin Painting Academy
The Hanlin Painting Academy (翰林图画院) was the imperial court painting institution of Song-dynasty China, first founded in 935 and a model for later court painting.
Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch (1889–1978) was a German collage artist who pioneered photomontage, the only woman in the Berlin Dada group, best known for Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1920).
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung, also known as Hans Baldung Grien, was a German Renaissance painter and woodcut master. He is known for his expressive style and themes of death and witches.
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer was a German-born artist associated with Surrealism, famous for constructing and photographing life-sized, anatomically reconfigurable female dolls published in Minotaure in 1934.
Hans Belting
Hans Belting (1935–2023) was a German art historian who reoriented his discipline from art toward the image, holding chairs at Heidelberg and Munich and writing Likeness and Presence.
Hans Coper
Hans Coper (1920–1981) was a German-born British studio potter who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, worked with Lucie Rie, and made sculptural vessels including candlesticks for Coventry Cathedral in 1962.
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) was a German-born American painter and art teacher, a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism and, per the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the most influential teacher of modern art in the United States.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543), German Northern Renaissance painter from Augsburg and Basel, court painter to Henry VIII; famed for The Ambassadors, the Henry VIII portrait, and the Dance of Death woodcuts published at Lyon in 1538.
Hans Memling
Hans Memling (c. 1435–1494) was a German-born Early Netherlandish painter who settled in Bruges and became that city's leading artist, known for calm portraits and altarpieces.
Hans Namuth
Hans Namuth (1915–1990) was a German-born American photographer and filmmaker whose 1950 pictures of Jackson Pollock shaped the painter's public image and the understanding of his working method.
Hans von Aachen
Hans von Aachen (1552–1615) was a German Northern Mannerist painter, imperial chamber painter to Rudolf II and Matthias, known for portraits and small mythological cabinet paintings in Prague.
Hans Wegner
Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914–2007) was a Danish furniture designer known as the master of the chair, who created around 500 chairs, including the Wishbone Chair and the Round Chair.
Harbaville Triptych
The Harbaville Triptych is a small Byzantine ivory devotional triptych carved in Constantinople in the mid-10th century, attributed to the Romanos Group and now in the Louvre.
Hard-edge painting
Hard-edge painting is a style of abstract painting with flat, unmodulated color areas and sharp edges, coined by critic Jules Langsner in 1959 for four southern California painters.
Harihara of Prasat Andet
The Harihara of Prasat Andet is a nearly life-size sandstone statue of the deity Harihara, carved in Cambodia in the late 7th or early 8th century and held in Phnom Penh.