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Art for art's sake
Art for art's sake (l'art pour l'art, ars gratia artis): slogan holding that art has inherent value independent of morals or politics, from Victor Cousin and Gautier's 1835 Mademoiselle de Maupin preface, central to British Aestheticism (1860–1900) with Pater and Wilde.
Art Haywood
Art Haywood is an American politician and Democratic member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 4th district, covering Northwest Philadelphia and Eastern Montgomery County, and minority chair of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: museum and School of the Art Institute (SAIC) incorporated May 24, 1879, at 111 S Michigan Ave. Second-largest art museum in North America; $1.12 billion endowment; Modern Wing (2009); Grainger conservation center planned for 2027.
Art museum
Art museum: a not-for-profit permanent institution collecting, conserving, researching, and exhibiting art, defined by ICOM in 2022; distinct from commercial galleries; includes Kunsthallen, public, private, and hybrid forms.
Art of Living Foundation
The Art of Living Foundation is a non-profit educational and humanitarian organization founded in 1981 by Indian spiritual teacher Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, known for Sudarshan Kriya breathing.
Art of Mesopotamia
Art of Mesopotamia: visual art and architecture of the Tigris-Euphrates land, also called Mesopotamian art, from 8000 BCE to about AD 100, defined by temple, palace, and cemetery patronage, conceptual conventions, cylinder seals, and monuments such as the Warka Vase and Naram-Sin stele.
Arta Peace Conference
The Arta Peace Conference, formally the Somali National Peace Conference, was a reconciliation conference held in Arta, Djibouti, in 2000 that established Somalia's first central government since 1991.
Artabanus I of Parthia
Artabanus I of Parthia (اردوان) was an Arsacid king who reigned from about 127 to 124/3 BC, losing Mesopotamia to Characene and dying in battle against eastern nomads.
Artabanus II of Parthia
Artabanus II of Parthia (اردوان دوم), also called Ardawan II, was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire, reigning from about AD 10/11 to 38.
Artabanus IV
Artabanus IV (اردوان چهارم) was the last Arsacid King of Kings of the Parthian Empire, defeated and killed by Ardashir I in 224, which ended Parthian rule over Iran.
Artakama
Artakama (Artacama) was a Persian noblewoman, daughter of Artabazus, married to Ptolemy, the future Ptolemy I of Egypt, at the Susa weddings of 324 BC.
Artane Rizvanolli
Artane Rizvanolli is a Kosovo politician and economist serving as Minister of Economy, with a PhD from Staffordshire University and a lectureship at Riinvest College since 2007.
Artaphernes
Artaphernes (آرتفِرن), also spelled Artaphrenes, was a Persian prince, half-brother of Darius I, who served as satrap of Sardis, held the acropolis during the Ionian Revolt, and reorganized Ionia's taxation afterward.
Artashumara
Artashumara (Artašumara) was a king of Mitanni, the Hurrian kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia, who reigned in the mid-14th century BC between his father Shuttarna II and Tushratta.
Artatama I
Artatama I was king of Mitanni around 1400 BCE, probably the son and successor of Sauštatar, known chiefly for marrying his daughter to Pharaoh Thutmose IV of Egypt.
Artatama II
Artatama II was a rival claimant to the throne of Mitanni, known to the Hittites as Hanigalbat, who set up his own kingdom in the northeast during the mid-fourteenth century BC dynastic crisis.
Artavasdes II of Armenia
Artavasdes II of Armenia, also spelled Artavazdes, was king from 55 to 34 BC, son of Tigranes the Great, captured by Mark Antony and executed by Cleopatra.
Artaxerxes I
Artaxerxes I (Longimanus), son of Xerxes I, Achaemenid king of Persia 465-424 BC; reconquered Egypt, made the Peace of Callias with Athens, aided the Jews Ezra and Nehemiah, and completed Persepolis' Hall of 100 Columns.
Artaxerxes II
Artaxerxes II (اردشیر دوم) was King of Kings of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from 405/4 to 359/58 BC, the dynasty's longest reign, and defeated his brother Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa in 401 BC.
Artaxerxes II's campaigns against Egypt
Artaxerxes II's campaigns against Egypt (تلاش برای بازپسگیری مصر) were two failed Persian expeditions, in the 380s BC and 373 BC, to recover independent Egypt under Nectanebo I.
Artaxerxes III's reconquest of Egypt
Artaxerxes III's reconquest of Egypt (استعادة مصر) was the Persian campaign of 343/2 BC that overthrew the last native pharaoh, Nectanebo II, restoring Persian rule.
Artaxerxes IV
Artaxerxes IV (Arses) was an Achaemenid king of the Persian Empire who reigned from 338 to 336 BC, a son of Artaxerxes III and the last Achaemenid before Darius III.
Artaxiad dynasty
The Artaxiad dynasty, also called the Artashesian dynasty, was the second royal house of ancient Armenia, ruling from 189 BC to about AD 12 and reaching its height under Tigranes II the Great.
Artaxias I
Artaxias I, in Armenian Artašēs, founded the Artaxiad dynasty of Greater Armenia and reigned from 189 to 160 BC, ruling from his new capital at Artaxata.
Artemis (Ἄρτεμις)
Artemis (Ἄρτεμις), Greek Olympian goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and girls' transitions; elder twin sister of Apollo, Roman Diana; Mycenaean a-te-mi-to; epithets Brauronia, Agrotera, Ephesia; arkteia bear ritual.
Artemis Accords
Non-binding U.S.-led principles for civil lunar and deep-space exploration, signed October 13, 2020 by the US and seven nations; grounded in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, covering resources, safety zones, and heritage; now 76 signatories.
Artemis Real Estate Partners
Artemis Real Estate Partners is a real estate private equity investment manager founded in 2009 by Deborah Harmon and former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Artemis Real Estate Partners Healthcare
Artemis Real Estate Partners Healthcare is the dedicated healthcare real estate fund series of Artemis Real Estate Partners, a private equity firm in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Artemisia I of Caria (Ἀρτεμισία)
Artemisia I of Caria (Ἀρτεμισία), queen of Halicarnassus under Persian suzerainty, commanded Carian ships for Xerxes I in 480 BCE, advised against the Battle of Salamis, escaped by ramming an allied ship, and later escorted Xerxes' sons to Ephesus.
Artemisia II of Caria
Artemisia II of Caria (Ἀρτεμισία), Hecatomnid sister-wife of Mausolus, ruled the Carian satrapy c. 353/352–351/350 BC, fought Rhodes, and completed the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, distinct from Artemisia I of Salamis.