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Longquan celadon
Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) is a green-glazed stoneware produced since the Song dynasty at kilns in Longquan, Zhejiang, China, celebrated for jade-like powder blue and plum green glazes.
Lord of Miracles
The Lord of Miracles (Señor de los Milagros) is a mural of the crucified Jesus in Lima, Peru, and Peru's most important Catholic devotion, with an annual October procession.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455) was a Florentine sculptor and goldsmith who won the 1401 Baptistery door competition against Brunelleschi and later made the Gates of Paradise.
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556 or 1557) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked mainly outside Venice, in Treviso, Bergamo, and the Marches.
Lorenzo Rodríguez
Lorenzo Rodríguez, an Andalusia-born architect who died in Mexico City in 1774, designed the Sagrario Metropolitano and moved the estípite from altarpieces onto church facades in New Spain.
Lori Harvey
Lori Harvey is an American model, entrepreneur, and actress, the adopted daughter of Steve Harvey, known for her 2017 Dolce & Gabbana runway debut and her skincare brand SKN by LH.
Lorinda Roland
Lorinda Roland (1938–2022), American sculptor, daughter of Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland; Cranbrook BFA 1960, Tiffany Grant 1961, Guggenheim 1963; worked in bronze, copper, gold, silver, Dutch leaf; animal subjects, Orcas Island.
Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an American artist known for large-scale photograph-and-text works with staged images of Black figures; in 1990 she became the first African American woman shown at the Venice Biennale.
Los Diez
Los Diez, Spanish for "The Ten," was a multidisciplinary association of Chilean artists founded in Santiago around 1915 by Pedro Prado and Julio Bertrand Vidal, best known for publishing the magazine Los Diez.
Lothar Ledderose
Lothar Ledderose (born 1942 in Munich) is a German art historian of East Asian art, best known for the modular mass-production thesis in his 2000 book Ten Thousand Things.
Lotte Jacobi
Lotte Jacobi (Johanna Alexandra Jacobi, 1896–1990) was a German-American portrait photographer associated with the New Vision movement, known for portraits of Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other leading figures of the twentieth century.
Lotus and Water Birds
Lotus and Water Birds (荷花水鸟图), also titled Lotus, Rock and Water Bird, is a recurring lotus-pond subject in the ink paintings of Qing dynasty artist Bada Shanren.
Lou Rui Tomb Murals
The Lou Rui Tomb murals (娄睿墓壁画) are the wall paintings of a Northern Qi princely tomb in Taiyuan, Shanxi, dated 570 CE and excavated in 1979.
Loudong school
The Loudong school (娄东派), also called the Taicang school, was a Qing dynasty Chinese landscape painting school centered on Wang Shimin and his grandson Wang Yuanqi of Taicang.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), American Art Nouveau designer and son of Tiffany & Co.'s founder, known for Favrile iridescent glass, leaded-glass windows and lamps, Corona glasshouse, and Laurelton Hall.
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French painter and Diorama showman, invented the daguerreotype, the first widely adopted photographic process, announced in Paris in 1839 and bought by the French state for a 6,000-franc annuity.
Louis Majorelle
Louis Majorelle (1859–1926) was a French cabinetmaker and decorative artist, a leading Art nouveau furniture designer and, with Émile Gallé, a central figure of the École de Nancy.
Louis Wain
Louis Wain (1860–1939), English illustrator famous for anthropomorphized cats; credited with popularizing cats as pets; later life in psychiatric hospitals; the famous schizophrenia cat sequence is a myth.
Louis-François Roubiliac
Louis-François Roubiliac was a French-born sculptor active in England, celebrated for his seated Handel statue at Vauxhall Gardens, dramatic Westminster Abbey tombs, and portrait busts of Pope and Newton.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), French-American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, creator of Personnages, room-sized Cells, and the giant spider Maman; MoMA's 1982 retrospective, its first for a female artist, marked her late-career recognition.
Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler, born 1947, is an American artist and photographer who photographs other artists' artworks in museums, storage, and homes to examine how context shapes meaning.
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (Leah Berliawsky, 1899–1988), Ukrainian-born American sculptor of monochromatic wood assemblages such as Sky Cathedral, Dawn's Wedding Feast, and Mrs. N's Palace.
Lovers under the Moon
Lovers under the Moon (Wolha Jeongin, 월하정인) is a late Joseon genre painting by Shin Yun-bok depicting a man and a woman parting secretly at night.
Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), born Franz Heinrich Louis in Tapiau, East Prussia, was a German painter and printmaker, a leader of the Berlin Secession and, with Liebermann and Slevogt, a leading German Impressionist whose late work turned Expressionist.
Lu Yanshao
Lu Yanshao (陆俨少, 1909–1993), originally named Tongzu and courtesy-named Wanruo, was a Chinese landscape painter known for drawn clouds and water and his Three Gorges series.
Lu Zigang
Lu Zigang (陆子冈) was a Chinese jade carver of Suzhou active in the second half of the 16th century during the Ming dynasty, namesake of the Zigang plaque.
Luann (comic strip)
Luann is Greg Evans's syndicated American comic strip, debuted March 17, 1985, following teenager Luann DeGroot; now co-created with daughter Karen Evans, Reuben Award 2003, distributed by Andrews McMeel.
Luba headrests
Luba headrests, called musamo, are carved wooden pillows made by the Luba peoples of the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, used in sleep to preserve elaborate hairstyles.
Luba Shankadi headrests
Luba Shankadi headrests, called musamo in Luba, are carved wooden pillows with female caryatid figures made in the southeastern Congo, chiefly in the 19th century.
Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid, born in Zanzibar in 1954, is a British painter who won the 2017 Turner Prize as the first Black woman to receive it.