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Salaì
Salaì (Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, 1480-1524) was Leonardo da Vinci's companion, servant, model and pupil from 1490; his 1525 inventory records the Mona Lisa, and he is linked with the signed Head of Christ the Redeemer.
Salvator Rosa
Salvator Rosa (Salvatore Rosa, 1615–1673), Neapolitan Baroque painter, etcher, poet and actor famed for wild sublime landscapes, battles, witchcraft scenes, and satires; a hero of the Romantics.
Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, 1444/5–May 1510), Florentine Renaissance painter of the Primavera and Birth of Venus; Medici patronage, tempera grassa technique, workshop with Filippino Lippi, reputation revived in the 1890s.
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo, born Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian painter who trained in Venice and moved to Rome in 1511, fusing Venetian color with Michelangelo's style.
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊)
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊, 1420–1506?), Japanese Zen monk and Muromachi ink painter; studied in Ming China in 1467; holds six National Treasures, the most of any Japanese painter, and shaped the Unkoku, Hasegawa, and Kanō schools.
Sesson Shūkei
Sesson Shūkei (雪村周継, 1504–after 1589) was a Japanese Zen monk-painter who worked in eastern Japan and created some of the most individualistic ink paintings of his era.
Shen Quan
Shen Quan (沈銓), sobriquet Nanpin, was a Chinese bird-and-flower painter of the Qing dynasty who taught in Nagasaki from 1731 to 1733, founding the Japanese Nanpin school.
Shen Zongqian
Shen Zongqian (沈宗骞, c. 1736–1820), courtesy name Xiyuan and art name Jiezhou, was a Qing dynasty literati painter and theorist from Huzhou, Zhejiang, known for his 1781 treatise Jiezhou Xuehuabian.
Shitao
Shitao (石涛, 1642–1707), born Zhu Ruoji into the Ming imperial family, was a Chinese landscape painter and theorist who became a Buddhist monk after the Ming fell.
Shūbun
Shūbun, also called Tenshō Shūbun, was a Japanese Zen monk-painter, official painter to the Ashikaga shogunate, whose ink landscapes set the standard for his era.
Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) was a French Baroque painter who trained in Rome and, as first painter to Louis XIII from 1627, reshaped Parisian painting; his pupils included Charles Le Brun.
Simone Martini
Simone Martini, born in Siena around 1284 and died in Avignon in 1344, was an Italian painter of the Sienese school known for his 1333 Annunciation in the Uffizi.
Sōami
Sōami (相阿弥), also called Shinso, was a Japanese painter and garden designer of the Muromachi period, the last of the three Ami advisors to the Ashikaga shoguns.
Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625), Cremona-born Renaissance portrait painter; trained under Bernardino Campi and Gatti, admired by Michelangelo and Vasari; lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to Elisabeth of Valois at Philip II's Spanish court; died Palermo 1625.
Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style
Soga Shōhaku's fantastic style is the idiosyncratic painting mode of Edo-period artist Soga Shōhaku (曾我蕭白, 1730–1781), who rendered traditional subjects with grotesque humor, brilliant colors, and supernatural realms.
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300 – 1366) was a Florentine painter and godson of Giotto, known for the frescoes of the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence.
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋宗達) was a Japanese painter active in Kyoto from around 1600 into the 1630s, regarded as the founder of the Rinpa style of decorative painting.
The Master of Boyana
The Master of Boyana (Боянският майстор) is the name for the anonymous painters who created the 1259 frescoes of the Boyana Church near Sofia, a peak of medieval Bulgarian art.
Theophanes the Cretan
Theophanes the Cretan (Theophanis Strelitzas) was a Greek monk and Cretan School painter, born in Heraklion, whose frescoes at Meteora and Mount Athos shaped post-Byzantine painting.
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), English portrait and landscape painter of Sudbury, Bath, and London; rival of Reynolds, favorite of George III, Royal Academy founder, experimental draftsman who fixed drawings in skim milk.
Tintoretto
Tintoretto, born Jacopo Robusti (1518 or 1519–1594), was a Venetian painter of the 16th century, known for dynamic compositions and his great cycle at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.
Titian
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1488/1490–1576), Venetian Renaissance painter born in Pieve di Cadore; official painter to the Venetian Republic from 1516, court painter to Charles V and Philip II, master of colorito and the poesie mythological series.
Torii Kiyonaga
Torii Kiyonaga (鳥居清長, 1752–1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, fourth head of the Torii school, and the leading designer of beautiful-women prints of the Tenmei era.
Torii Kiyonobu I
Torii Kiyonobu I (鳥居清信, 1664–1729), personal name Shōbei, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who founded the Torii school and established the bold style of kabuki actor prints.
Tosa Mitsunobu
Tosa Mitsunobu (土佐光信, active 1469 to about 1525) was a Japanese Muromachi-period painter who headed the court Painting Office and established the Tosa school of classical courtly painting.
Tosa Mitsuoki
Tosa Mitsuoki (土佐光起, 1617–1691) was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period who revived the Tosa school of yamato-e in Kyoto, restoring his family's hereditary court painting post in 1654.
Unkoku Tōgan
Unkoku Tōgan (雲谷等顔, 1547–1618) was a Japanese painter who founded the Unkoku school of ink painting and served the Mōri clan, claiming direct succession to Sesshū Tōyō.
Ustad Mansur
Ustad Mansur was a Mughal court painter under Akbar and Jahangir, active from about 1589 to 1626, known for his natural history studies of India's birds and flowers.
Utamaro (喜多川歌麿)
Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿, c. 1753–1806), Edo ukiyo-e master of bijinga; pupil of Toriyama Sekien, published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō; developed ōkubi-e bust portraits around 1793; punished in 1804 under the Kansei reforms.
Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526), Venetian Renaissance painter famous for narrative confraternity cycles such as the Saint Ursula series and Saint George and the Dragon; namesake of the raw-beef dish.