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Andrea Pisano

Andrea Pisano, also called Andrea da Pontedera, was a fourteenth-century Italian goldsmith and sculptor, best known for the earliest gilded bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery.

Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) was an American photographer and writer, son of painter Lyonel Feininger, known for telephoto views of New York City for Life magazine.

Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky, born in Leipzig in 1955, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format, digitally constructed images of commerce, architecture, crowds, and landscape examining capitalism.

Andreas Ritzos

Andreas Ritzos, also recorded as Rico or Rizo (c. 1421–1492), was a Greek icon painter of the Cretan School in Candia, Crete, and the dominant painter there after 1450.

Andreas Schlüter

Andreas Schlüter (1659/60–1714) was a German Baroque sculptor and architect who, as court sculptor to Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg, gave Berlin its most important Baroque buildings.

Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв)

Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв), also known as Andrey Rublyov, was a Russian monk and icon painter active ca. 1360–1430. He is remembered for his icon of the Old Testament Trinity.

Andrew Levitas

Andrew Levitas, American artist and filmmaker, creator of Metalwork Installations photography, writer-director of Lullaby (2014) and Minamata with Johnny Depp, co-founder of Cygnet Gin; distinct from the psychiatrist Andrew Stephen Levitas.

Andrew Loomis

Andrew Loomis (William Andrew Loomis, 1892–1959), American commercial illustrator and art instructor of Chicago; creator of the ball-and-plane Loomis head method and six instructional books reissued by Titan Books from 2011.

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), American realist painter of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine; creator of Christina's World (1948) and the secret Helga Pictures, trained by his father N.C. Wyeth.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956, Cheshire) is a British land artist and sculptor who builds ephemeral and permanent works from stone, leaves, ice, and clay, documented in photographs; known for Storm King Wall, Refuge d'Art, and the 2025 Fifty Years retrospective.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola, 1928–1987), American Pop artist from Pittsburgh known for Campbell's Soup Cans, celebrity portraits, screenprinting, the Factory, avant-garde films, and the Velvet Underground.

Ang Kiukok

Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent who fused cubism and expressionism in works of suffering and crucifixions, named National Artist in 2001.

Angel of the North

Angel of the North: monumental 1998 steel angel sculpture by Antony Gormley at Gateshead, Tyne and Wear; 20 m tall, 54 m wingspan, Corten steel, Arup-engineered, Lottery-funded landmark beside the A1.

Angel of the Waters

Angel of the Waters is an 1873 bronze sculpture by Emma Stebbins that crowns the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, New York City, commemorating the Croton Aqueduct.

Angel Salvadore

Angel Salvadore, also known as Tempest, is a Marvel Comics mutant introduced in New X-Men #118 (2001) by Grant Morrison and Ethan Van Sciver, with housefly-like wings, acid spit, and egg-laying, distinct from Warren Worthington III.

Angel with Golden Hair

Angel with Golden Hair (Russian: Ангел Златые власы), also cataloged as Archangel Gabriel, is a Russian icon of around 1200 in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Angelica Hicks

Angelica Hicks (born 1992), British illustrator known for pun-based fashion illustrations on Instagram; debut book Tongue in Chic (2017), Gucci t-shirt and mural collaboration, Rockefeller Center 2019 holiday art.

Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman (Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter and a founding member of the Royal Academy in London in 1768, one of only two women.

Angelos Akotantos

Angelos Akotantos (Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a Greek icon painter active in Venetian-ruled Crete in the first half of the fifteenth century and the earliest documented painter of the Cretan School.

Angler on a Wintry Lake

Angler on a Wintry Lake (寒江独釣図, Hanjing Dudiaotu) is a small Southern Song painting attributed to Ma Yuan, showing a lone fisherman through masterful use of blank space.

Animal carpet

An animal carpet is a knotted-pile Persian carpet filled with animals in combat or hunting scenes, produced in Safavid Iran in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor (born 1954, Mumbai) is a British-Indian sculptor known for pigment voids, Cloud Gate ('the Bean') in Chicago, Marsyas at Tate Modern, exclusive Vantablack rights, and the Turner Prize (1991).

Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914–2012) was a Filipino modernist painter and the only woman among the Thirteen Moderns, known for post-Cubist depictions of Filipino women working in farms, markets, and homes.

Anita Malfatti

Anita Malfatti was a Brazilian painter and pioneer of modern art in Brazil, whose 1917 solo exhibition in São Paulo sparked the controversy that fueled Brazilian modernism.

Anjolie Ela Menon

Anjolie Ela Menon, born in 1940 in Burnpur, West Bengal, is an Indian figurative painter and muralist known for oil paintings on Masonite that received the Padma Shri in 2000.

Ann Warner

Ann Williams Warner (born 1944, Franklinton, Louisiana) was an American oil painter of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits; distinct from the Cincinnati novelist and the ICRW executive of the same name.

Anna Cleveland

Anna Cleveland (Anna Van Ravenstein Cleveland), Dutch-born fashion model, daughter of 1970s supermodel Pat Cleveland; broke out at Giles SS15 2015, campaigns for Lanvin, Bottega Veneta, Bvlgari ambassador.

Anne Brigman

Anne Brigman was an American Pictorialist photographer best known for her early 1900s Sierra Nevada photographs of female nudes, and the only West Coast Fellow of Stieglitz's Photo-Secession.

Anne de Zogheb

Anne de Zogheb, also known as Anne Anka, was an Egyptian-American fashion model and art collector. She married Paul Anka in 1963 and modeled for Elliott Hundley in 2014.

Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes (born 1956) is an Australian, New York-based photographer famous for staged baby portraits in flowerpots, cabbages, and flowers. Her 1996 book Down in the Garden became a New York Times bestseller; books sold over 19 million copies; first retrospective held in Tübingen, 2025.