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Letraset
Letraset: British company founded in London in 1959, maker of dry rub-down transfer lettering sheets (Instant Lettering, 1961) that democratized display typography; 473 original typefaces, Baseline magazine, later owned by Esselte and Colart/Winsor & Newton.
Levni
Levni, whose real name was Abdülcelil Çelebi, was the leading Ottoman miniaturist of the early 18th century, best known for the Surname-i Vehbi festival book.
Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) was an American photographer whose austere pictures of tract houses and industrial parks made him a central figure of the New Topographics movement.
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor, DC Comics supervillain created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appeared in Action Comics #23 (1940) as Superman's bald, genius archenemy; reinvented as a corporate tycoon in 1986 and portrayed by Hackman, Eisenberg, and Hoult on screen.
Li Bai Strolling and Chanting Poetry
Li Bai Strolling and Chanting Poetry is a 13th-century ink hanging scroll by Liang Kai showing the Tang poet Li Bai, held in the Tokyo National Museum.
Li Keran
Li Keran (李可染, 1907–1989) was a Chinese painter and art educator who transformed ink landscape painting by fusing accumulated-ink technique with Western light and modeling; his best-known work is Ten Thousand Mountains All Red (1963).
Li Kuchan
Li Kuchan (李苦禅, 1899–1983), born Li Ying, was a Chinese painter and educator known for freehand bird-and-flower paintings, especially eagles, and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Li Tang
Li Tang (李唐, c. 1049–1130) was a Chinese court painter of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, first of the Four Masters of the Southern Song academy.
Li-Guo school
The Li-Guo school (李郭画派) is a Chinese landscape painting tradition named for Northern Song masters Li Cheng and Guo Xi, known for crab-claw branches and wintry forests.
Liao dynasty Buddhist sculpture
Liao dynasty Buddhist sculpture is Buddhist statuary made in China from 916 to 1125 under the Khitan-ruled Liao dynasty, known for painted clay temple statues.
Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set
The Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set is the metal funeral crown and face mask buried on Khitan nobles of the Liao dynasty (916–1125), best known from the Princess of Chen's tomb.
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple), Delacroix's 1830 oil painting of the July Revolution's Trois Glorieuses, showing allegorical Liberty with Phrygian cap leading insurgents over a barricade; Louvre, salle Mollien.
Lichfield Gospels
The Lichfield Gospels, also called the St Chad Gospels or St Teilo Gospels, is an Insular Latin gospel-book of about 730, kept at Lichfield Cathedral and bearing the oldest surviving Old Welsh writing.
Lidai Minghua Ji
Lidai Minghua Ji (歷代名畫記) is a ten-juan history and theory of Chinese painting completed in 847 by Zhang Yanyuan, regarded as the earliest systematic art-historical writing.
Lienzo de Tlaxcala
The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is a lost sixteenth-century Mexican pictorial manuscript, a painted cloth commissioned in 1552 documenting the Tlaxcalteca role in the Spanish conquest.
Light and Space
Light and Space, also called California Minimalism or Finish Fetish, is a Los Angeles art movement active from about 1960 through the 1970s whose works explore light and perception.
Light art
Light art is a form of visual art in which light itself is the primary medium, using sources such as fluorescent tubes, LEDs, and neon.
Light painting
Light painting, also called light drawing, is a photographic technique in which a light source moved during a long exposure leaves lines or shapes in the image.
Ligier Richier
Ligier Richier was a French sculptor of the Lorraine Renaissance, born at Saint-Mihiel around 1500 and known for the standing Transi of René de Chalon and the Entombment of Saint-Mihiel.
Lili Elbe
Lili Elbe (Lili Ilse Elvenes, 1882-1931), born Einar Wegener, Danish painter and one of the first documented recipients of sex reassignment surgery; wife of Gerda Wegener; subject of Man into Woman and The Danish Girl.
Lilies of the Valley Egg
The Lilies of the Valley Egg is an 1898 Fabergé Imperial Easter egg, a rose-pink enameled gift from Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
Limburg Staurotheke
The Limburg Staurotheke is a Byzantine reliquary of the True Cross made in Constantinople, holding seven Cross fragments, kept at Limburg an der Lahn, Germany since 1835.
Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel is enamel on metal, mostly gilded copper, made in Limoges, France, from the late twelfth century; its champlevé and painted plaques spread across Europe.
Lin Fengmian
Lin Fengmian (林風眠, 1900–1991) was a Chinese painter and educator who merged Chinese ink painting with European modernism and founded the National Art Academy in Hangzhou.
Lin Liang
Lin Liang (林良) was a Chinese court painter of the Ming dynasty who served from about 1465 and founded the bold ink freehand school of bird-and-flower painting.
Lin Onus
Lin Onus, born William McLintock Onus and known by the Koori name Burrinja, was an Aboriginal Australian painter, sculptor, and activist who died in 1996.
Lin Sanzhi
Lin Sanzhi (林散之, 1898–1989), born Lin Lin, was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and painter whose late-life cursive script earned him the title "contemporary Sage of Cursive."
Lina Lazaar
Lina Lazaar (born 1983, Riyadh) is a Tunisian-Swiss curator and vice president of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation; she founded Ibraaz, the JAOU biennial, and curated Tunisia's 2017 Venice Biennale pavilion.
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney (née Eastman, 1941–1998), American photographer, first woman on Rolling Stone's cover (1968), Wings keyboardist 1971–1981, vegetarian food entrepreneur, wife of Paul McCartney.
Lindsey Pelas
Lindsey Pelas (born 1991, Ruston, Louisiana) is an American model, actress, and influencer; Playboy Cyber Girl of the Month May 2014, LSU history graduate, host of the podcast Eyes Up Here, and actress in Paper Empire.