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Irma Stern
Irma Stern (1894–1966) was a South African painter, sculptor, and ceramicist who brought German Expressionism to South Africa and became one of the country's most celebrated 20th-century artists.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum (born 1930) is a New York-born art dealer who ran Los Angeles' Ferus Gallery from 1958, staged Warhol's first Soup Cans show in 1962, and later founded BlumHelman.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn was an American photographer known for fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes over a nearly seventy-year career, most of it at Vogue, with 165 covers.
Irworobongdo
Irworobongdo, also called Ilwolobongbyeong or Obongbyeong, is a Korean folding screen of the sun, moon, and five peaks set behind the royal throne in Joseon palace halls.
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan (Исаак Ильич Левитан, 1860–1900) was a Russian realist landscape painter, called the "singer of Russian nature," whose mood landscapes include Above Eternal Peace and March.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), American art collector and founder of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway Court, opened 1903); Berenson-advised collection, strict will, and site of the unsolved 1990 art theft.
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi (野口勇, 1904–1988), Japanese American sculptor and designer; Brancusi assistant, Akari lanterns, Noguchi table, UNESCO and Chase Manhattan gardens, Noguchi Museum founder.
Isenheim Altarpiece
The Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516), painted by Matthias Grünewald with a carved shrine by Niclaus of Haguenau, is a monumental winged polyptych made for an Antonite hospital treating ergotism, now in Colmar's Musée Unterlinden.
Isfahan carpet
An Isfahan carpet is a fine hand-knotted Persian rug woven in or around Isfahan, Iran, which flourished under Safavid Shah ʿAbbās I and was revived as a major export industry by the 1920s.
Isfahan school of painting
The Isfahan school of painting (مکتب نقاشی اصفهان) was a school of Persian painting and calligraphy that flourished in Isfahan, Safavid capital, from about 1597 to 1722.
Islamic art
Islamic art, also called Muslim art, is the art and architecture made from the seventh century onward across lands ruled by Muslims or for the Muslim faith.
Island of Sculptures
Illa das Esculturas (Island of Sculptures), also Illa do Covo, an open-air granite sculpture museum on the Lérez River in Pontevedra, Galicia, opened July 1999 with twelve works by international artists, expanded in 2026.
Isle of the Dead (painting)
Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead), Arnold Böcklin's Symbolist painting series begun 1880: five versions, four surviving in Basel, New York, Berlin, and Leipzig; title coined by dealer Fritz Gurlitt; inspired Rachmaninoff's 1909 tone poem.
Isleworth Mona Lisa
Isleworth Mona Lisa, also called the Earlier Mona Lisa: an oil-on-canvas portrait of a younger Lisa Gherardini with side columns, claimed by the Mona Lisa Foundation to be Leonardo's earlier version and disputed as a copy by scholars such as Martin Kemp.
Islimi
Islimi (اسلیمی), also romanized eslimi and known in Europe as arabesque, is an interlaced spiral motif of scrolling foliage and vines central to Iranian and Islamic art, symbolizing eternity.
Isoda Koryūsai
Isoda Koryūsai (磯田湖龍斎) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the mid-Edo period, active from 1764 to about 1789, who became one of the most popular beauty painters in Edo.
Italian fashion
Italian fashion: postwar industry behind the "Made in Italy" label; first Giorgini show in Florence (1951), Milan's rise (1972-1978), CNMI governance, and one of the world's largest fashion exporters.
Italian Renaissance painting
Italian Renaissance painting: painting made in Italy c. 1400–1600, also called Quattrocento and High Renaissance art. Marked by linear perspective (Brunelleschi, Masaccio), tempera and oil techniques, and patronage-driven commissions; centers included Florence, Venice, and Urbino.
Italo-Byzantine
Italo-Byzantine is the style of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Italian painting that adopts Byzantine icons' gold grounds and outlined figures, dominating Italian panels until Cimabue's turn toward naturalism around 1280.
Itaya Hazan
Itaya Hazan (板谷波山, 1872–1963) was a Japanese ceramic artist, born Kashichi Itaya in Shimodate, Ibaraki Prefecture, a pioneer of modern ceramics who created the hōkō-saiji matte glaze technique.
Itō Jakuchū
Itō Jakuchū (伊藤若冲, 1716–1800) was a Japanese painter of the middle Edo period, a Kyoto vegetable wholesaler who retired to paint and became famous for vivid bird-and-flower works.
Itō Jakuchū's polychrome style
Itō Jakuchū's polychrome style (伊藤若冲) is the colored painting manner of Edo-period Kyoto artist Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), best known for the 30-scroll Colorful Realm of Living Beings.
Itō Shinsui
Itō Shinsui (伊東深水, born Itō Hajime, 1898–1972) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist whose bijin-ga made him a central figure of the shin-hanga movement.
Ivan Aivazovsky (Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի)
Ivan Aivazovsky (Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի, 1817-1900), born Hovhannes Aivazian in Feodosia, Crimea, was an Armenian-Russian marine painter of about 6,000 works, academician, Main Naval Staff painter, and founder of the Feodosia gallery.
Ivan Argunov
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1720s–1802) was a Russian serf painter, a founder of the Russian school of portrait painting who portrayed Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II.
Ivan Bilibin
Ivan Bilibin (Иван Яковлевич Билибин; 1876–1942) was a Russian graphic artist, book illustrator, and stage designer, known for illustrations of Russian fairy tales and for Pushkin's Tale of Tsar Saltan.
Ivan Chermayeff
Ivan Chermayeff (1932–2017) was a British-born American graphic designer who co-founded the New York firm Chermayeff & Geismar, known for the Mobil, Chase, and NBC identities.
Ivan Generalić
Ivan Generalić (1914–1992) was a Croatian naive painter and farmer from Hlebine, the central figure of the Hlebine school, best known for oil-on-glass paintings of village life and for works like The Deer Wedding.
Ivan Honchar
Ivan Honchar (Іван Гончар) was a Ukrainian sculptor, painter, and ethnographer who collected Ukrainian folk art and founded the folk culture museum in Kyiv that bears his name.
Ivan Kavaleridze
Ivan Kavaleridze (Іван Кавалерідзе, 1887–1978) was a Ukrainian sculptor, film director, and playwright who created early monuments to Taras Shevchenko and directed historical films before being censured by Soviet authorities.