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Lang Jingshan
Lang Jingshan (1892–1995) was a Chinese photographer and China's first photojournalist, best known for composite photography, a darkroom method combining negatives into images resembling Chinese ink landscape paintings.
Lanzón
The Lanzón, Spanish for "great lance," is a 4.5-meter granite monolith carved with a fanged deity, the largest sculpture of Peru's Chavín culture, still in its original position.
Laocoön and His Sons
Laocoön and His Sons, the Laocoön Group, ancient marble sculpture of the Trojan priest and his sons strangled by sea serpents, attributed by Pliny to three Rhodian sculptors, excavated in Rome in 1506 and displayed in the Vatican's Belvedere courtyard.
Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck
Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck, known as Lara Cosima, German-American countess, model, and influencer born 2003 in Florida; daughter of Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Le Bal 2023 debutante, Armani runway model, engaged to François Pinault Jr.
Large-format photography
Large-format photography uses big sheets of film, usually 4x5 or 8x10 inch, exposed in a view camera whose lens and film standards can tilt and shift.
Larry Burrows
Larry Burrows (Henry Frank Leslie Burrows, 1926–1971) was a British photojournalist and war photographer for LIFE magazine, known for color Vietnam War coverage from 1962 to 1971.
Larry D. Alexander
Larry D. Alexander (Larry Dell Alexander, 1953–2021), Arkansas-born self-taught artist, Bible teacher, and former Detroit auto mechanic, known for crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings, the Dermott and Detroit series, and the 1995 Clinton Family Portrait.
Larry Lieber
Larry Lieber (born 1931), American comic book writer and artist, younger brother of Stan Lee; scripted the first Thor and Iron Man stories, co-created Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man, and drew the Spider-Man newspaper strip.
Las Limas Monument 1
Las Limas Monument 1, also known as the Señor de Las Limas, is an Olmec greenstone sculpture of a seated man holding a supernatural infant.
Las Meninas
Las Meninas (1656), Velázquez's oil on canvas in Madrid's Prado, shows Infanta Margarita, her meninas, dwarfs, and the painter himself, with Philip IV and his queen reflected in a mirror; famous for its perspective paradoxes and Foucault's analysis.
Lascaux
Lascaux, also known as the Lascaux cave, is a decorated Upper Paleolithic cave near Montignac in southwestern France, famous for animal paintings made roughly 21,500 to 21,000 years ago.
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), Hungarian modernist artist and Bauhaus master 1923–1928, pioneer of photograms and the Light-Space Modulator, founder of Chicago's New Bauhaus, later the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech.
Late Shah Jahan Album
The Late Shah Jahan Album was an imperial Mughal album made for the emperor Shah Jahan in about 1650 to 1658, pairing court portraits with calligraphy by Mir ʿAli.
Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch, born in Morocco in 1974 and raised in France, is a sculptor and installation artist in Switzerland who won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
Latiff Mohidin
Latiff Mohidin (full name Abdul Latiff bin Haji Mohidin, born 1941) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor, and poet best known for the Pago Pago series.
LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) is an American artist and photographer from Braddock, Pennsylvania, known for The Notion of Family and for documenting the Flint water crisis. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
Latveria
Latveria (Kingdom of Latveria) is a fictional Eastern European country in Marvel Comics, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964) as the absolute-monarchy homeland ruled by Doctor Doom from Castle Doom in the capital Doomstadt.
Laura Lopes
Laura Lopes (Laura Rose Parker Bowles, born 1978) is an English art curator, daughter of Queen Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles, stepdaughter of King Charles III, former manager of Eleven Fine Art and now of Barber Lopes.
Laura Wilson (photographer)
Laura Wilson, also known as Laura Cunningham Wilson, is an American documentary photographer in Dallas, Texas, known for portraits of the American West and Mexico; she began as Richard Avedon's assistant in 1979.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 1965, London) is a British interior designer, TV presenter and artist, famous as lead designer of BBC's Changing Rooms from 1996, known for flamboyant maximalist design and purple signature colour.
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons (born 1949, Long Island, NY) is an American Pictures Generation artist and filmmaker known for staged photographs of dolls, dummies, and objects with legs in domestic interiors; works include Walking House, The Love Doll, and the films The Music of Regret and MY ART.
Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter of Bologna and Rome, one of the first European women to sustain a long professional career on public commissions, including altarpieces.
Law Roach
Law Roach, American celebrity stylist and self-described "image architect" from Chicago, known for Zendaya, Céline Dion, method dressing, the 2022 inaugural CFDA Stylist Award, and his 2023 retirement announcement.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Lourens Alma Tadema), Dutch-born Victorian painter (1836-1912) of classical Roman and Egyptian scenes with archaeological detail; London-based, Royal Academician, knighted 1899, Order of Merit 1905.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (born 1957, Kamloops, British Columbia) is a Canadian painter of Cowichan Coast Salish and Okanagan descent known for large-scale paintings addressing Indigenous sovereignty and environmental destruction.
Layered Cliffs and Dense Trees
Layered Cliffs and Dense Trees (层岩丛树图), also translated Storied Mountains and Dense Forests, is a tenth-century ink-on-silk hanging scroll attributed to the monk-painter Juran, held in Taipei.
Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville
Le Baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville) is a 1950 photograph by Robert Doisneau of a couple kissing outside Paris's city hall.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, also titled Le Bain, in the Musée d'Orsay; scandal at the Salon des Refusés, sources in Titian and Raphael, later reworked by Picasso, Monet, and Cézanne.
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires is a 2010 work by Mickalene Thomas that re-creates Manet's 1863 painting with three confident, fully clothed Black women, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art.
Le génie du mal
Le génie du mal (The Genius of Evil) is an 1848 white Carrara marble Lucifer by Guillaume Geefs at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Liège, replacing his brother Joseph's removed 1842 L'ange du mal; distinct from a Gustave Moreau painting and a 1959 film.