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Holy Blood Altar
The Holy Blood Altar (Heilig-Blut-Altar) is a carved limewood altarpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, made between 1501 and 1505 for St. James's Church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Homage to the Square
Homage to the Square is a series of abstract paintings by Josef Albers, created between 1949 and 1976. The works explore color relativity using nested solid squares.
Homai Vyarawalla
Homai Vyarawalla, who published under the pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist; from 1938 to 1970 she photographed the independence era, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah.
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter is Alexander Gardner's 1863 Gettysburg photograph of a dead Confederate soldier at Devil's Den, staged with a moved corpse and a prop rifle and exposed by Frassanito in 1975.
Homeless Jesus
Homeless Jesus, also called Jesus the Homeless, is Timothy Schmalz's life-size bronze of Christ sleeping on a bench under a blanket, identified only by crucifixion wounds on his feet; first installed in Toronto in 2013, blessed by Pope Francis, with over 100 copies worldwide.
Homomonument
Homomonument: world's first free-standing gay memorial, Amsterdam Westermarkt, unveiled 5 September 1987, designed by Karin Daan; three pink granite triangles symbolizing past, present and future.
Hon'ami Kōetsu
Hon'ami Kōetsu (本阿弥光悦, 1558–1637) was a Japanese calligrapher and lacquer artist of early Edo Kyoto, one of the "Three Brushes of the Kan'ei era" and, with Tawaraya Sōtatsu, a founder of Rinpa art.
Hōnen Shōnin Eden
Hōnen Shōnin Eden (法然上人絵伝) is a set of 48 painted handscrolls depicting the life of Hōnen, founder of Japan's Jōdo-shū, held as a National Treasure at Chion-in, Kyoto.
Honey Ant Dreaming
The Honey Ant Dreaming, known in desert languages as Tjala Tjukurrpa, is a Central Australian ancestral narrative whose 1971 Papunya mural launched the Western Desert art movement.
Honey Ant Dreaming mural
The Honey Ant Dreaming mural was painted on Papunya school walls in Central Australia in 1971, led by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa with custodians' approval, launching the Western Desert art movement.
Hong Kong New Ink Movement
The Hong Kong New Ink Movement (新水墨運動) was an art movement founded by Lui Shou-kwan in the 1960s that modernized Chinese ink painting with Western abstraction.
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and graphic artist who became the leading political and social caricaturist of nineteenth-century France, publishing thousands of lithographs in Le Charivari.
Hoor Al-Qasimi
Hoor Al-Qasimi (حور القاسمي, born 1980), Emirati curator and daughter of Sharjah's ruler; President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation (founded 2009) and Sharjah Biennial director since 2003; ArtReview Power 100 first place 2024; Aichi Triennale 2025 and Sydney Biennale 2026.
Hopewell art
Hopewell art is the ceremonial objects, ornaments, and earthworks of the Hopewell culture, a Middle Woodland society in southern Ohio from about A.D. 1 to 400.
Horatio Greenough
Horatio Greenough (1805–1852) was an American neoclassical sculptor based mostly in Florence, Italy, known for his colossal seated marble George Washington and for articulating the principle that form follows function.
Horizon blue
Horizon blue is a pale gray-blue color used as the uniform of the French metropolitan army during the First World War. It was adopted in 1915.
Horniman Museum
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a free museum in Forest Hill, south London, founded by tea trader Frederick Horniman; it opened in 1890 and 1901, holds about 350,000 objects, and returned 72 Benin bronzes to Nigeria.
Horns of Alexander
Horns of Alexander: ram's horns on coins and sculpture of Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE), symbolizing descent from Zeus-Ammon after the Siwa oracle; a symbolic attribute, not a physical feature, echoed by Arsinoe II and later art.
Horse of Selene
The Horse of Selene is a marble horse's head from the east pediment of the Parthenon, part of the team drawing the moon-goddess Selene's chariot, now in the British Museum.
Horses of Saint Mark
The Horses of Saint Mark (Cavalli di San Marco) are four gilded copper horses looted from Constantinople in 1204 and displayed at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in Germany in 1906, was a German-American fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, best known for his 1939 photograph Mainbocher Corset.
Hospicio Cabañas murals
The Hospicio Cabañas murals are 57 frescoes painted by José Clemente Orozco between 1938 and 1939 in the chapel of the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Hours of Catherine of Cleves
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a richly illuminated Book of Hours made in Utrecht around 1440 for Catherine of Cleves, Duchess of Guelders, now at the Morgan Library in New York.
Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux
The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux is a small illuminated Book of Hours made in Paris by Jean Pucelle around 1324 to 1328 for Jeanne d'Évreux, queen of France.
House by the Railroad
House by the Railroad is a 1925 oil painting by Edward Hopper of a Victorian house above railroad tracks, the first painting acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
House of Fabergé
House of Fabergé, Russian jewellery firm founded in Saint Petersburg in 1842 by Gustav Fabergé, famed under Peter Carl Fabergé for the Imperial Easter Eggs (about 50 made, 43 survive); nationalised in 1917, the brand survives under later owners including SMG Capital since 2025.
House of Mystery
House of Mystery is a DC Comics horror and mystery anthology (1951-1983, 321 issues), later a Vertigo series (2008-2011) about five people trapped in a supernatural bar, hosted in its horror era by Cain the Caretaker.
Howard Chandler Christy
Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952), American illustrator and portrait painter from Morgan County, Ohio, creator of the 'Christy Girl,' Spanish-American War correspondent-artist, WWI poster artist, and painter of The Signing of the Constitution in the U.S. Capitol.
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) was an American illustrator, author, and teacher, called the Father of American Illustration, best known for The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883).
Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell (born 1943) is an American painter known for abstract works made from hole-punched paper dots and for documenting racism in the art world.