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Portrait of King Sejong
The Portrait of King Sejong refers to royal portraits of the Joseon king, all lost after the 1590s Japanese invasions; today's images are modern reconstructions.
Portrait of Mehmed II
An 1480 oil portrait of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II by Venetian painter Gentile Bellini, made at the Ottoman court and now in the National Gallery, London.
Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo
The Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo is a 13th-century National Treasure hanging scroll at Jingoji Temple in Kyoto, traditionally identified as the first Kamakura shogun.
Portrait of Sen no Rikyū
The Portrait of Sen no Rikyū (Rikyū koji zō) is the best-known painted image of the Japanese tea master, a 1595 hanging scroll attributed to Hasegawa Tōhaku in Kyoto.
Portrait of the Priest Myōe
Portrait of the Priest Myōe is a 13th-century hanging scroll showing the Kegon monk Myōe meditating on a pine tree at Kōzan-ji in Kyoto, a National Treasure.
Portrait of Yi Je-hyeon
The Portrait of Yi Je-hyeon is a 1319 full-length portrait of the Goryeo scholar-official by the Yuan painter Jin Ganru, designated National Treasure No. 110 of South Korea.
Primavera (Botticelli)
Primavera (Spring), c. 1480, is Botticelli's large tempera-on-poplar panel of nine mythological figures including Venus, Flora, the Graces, and Mercury, in the Uffizi, Florence, inventory 1890 n. 8360.
Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains
Streams and Mountains, Clear and Distant (溪山清遠圖) is a long Southern Song landscape handscroll attributed to Xia Gui, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version)
The Rakuchū Rakugai-zu (Uesugi version) is a pair of six-panel folding screens attributed to Kanō Eitoku that depicts mid-16th-century Kyoto and has been a National Treasure since 1995.
Raphael Rooms
Raphael Rooms (Stanze di Raffaello), four papal reception rooms in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace frescoed by Raphael and his workshop 1508–1524 for Julius II and Leo X, housing the School of Athens.
Rongxi Studio
Rongxi Studio (容膝斋图) is a hanging-scroll ink landscape painted in 1372 by the Chinese literati painter Ni Zan, a National Treasure held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Rustam Lassoes Rakhsh
Rustam Lassoes Rakhsh is an illustrated Persian manuscript painting of about 1330–40 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing the Shahnama hero Rustam lassoing his future horse Rakhsh.
Sakyamuni Descending the Mountain
Sakyamuni Descending the Mountain (Japanese: Shussan Shaka) is a Buddhist painting subject showing the emaciated Buddha leaving the mountains after six years of ascetic practice, favored in Zen art.
Salus Populi Romani
Salus Populi Romani, Latin for "Salvation of the Roman People," is a Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin and Child in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, traditionally attributed to Saint Luke.
Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)
Salvator Mundi, Latin for "Saviour of the World," is an oil painting of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci around 1500, and the most expensive painting ever sold at auction.
San Bartolo murals
The San Bartolo murals are Maya wall paintings dated to about 100 BC, discovered in 2001 at San Bartolo in Petén, Guatemala, depicting creation mythology and early Maya writing.
Savior Church on Nereditsa frescoes
The Savior Church on Nereditsa frescoes are the complete 1199 wall paintings of a church near Veliky Novgorod, preserved for seven centuries until German artillery destroyed them in 1941.
Savior of Zvenigorod
The Savior of Zvenigorod is an early 15th-century icon of Christ, traditionally attributed to Andrei Rublev, discovered in 1918 in Zvenigorod and kept in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Seduction of Yusuf
The Seduction of Yusuf is a 1488 miniature painting by Persian master Kamal al-Din Bihzad, made in Herat and showing Zulaykha pursuing Yusuf through her palace.
Seeking the Tao in Autumn Mountains
Seeking the Tao in Autumn Mountains (秋山问道图) is a hanging scroll in ink on silk attributed to the monk-painter Juran, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi is a Southern Dynasties brick mural unearthed in 1960 at Nanjing and held by the Nanjing Museum.
Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
Muraqqa'-i Shah Tahmasp (Shahnama-yi Shahi) is a lavish illustrated copy of Ferdowsi's epic, produced at the Safavid royal workshop in Tabriz starting in the early 1520s.
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) is the Vatican Palace's principal papal chapel, built 1477–1480 for Sixtus IV, decorated by Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio, and frescoed by Michelangelo with the Genesis ceiling (1508–1512) and Last Judgment (1536–1541); it hosts papal conclaves.
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sistine Chapel ceiling: vault of the Vatican's main papal chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo 1508–1512 with nine Genesis scenes, twelve Prophets and Sibyls, and ancestors of Christ; seat of the papal conclave since 1878 and restored 1979–1999.
Sistine Madonna
Sistine Madonna (Madonna di San Sisto), Raphael's 1512–1513 oil altarpiece for San Sisto, Piacenza, commissioned by Pope Julius II, showing Madonna, Child, Sixtus II, Barbara, and putti; held in Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister since 1754.
Sittanavasal paintings
The Sittanavasal paintings are 7th- to 9th-century Jain murals in the Arivar Koil cave temple at Sittanavasal, Tamil Nadu, among South India's earliest surviving murals and principal early Jain wall painting.
Six Persimmons
Six Persimmons (六柿圖) is a 13th-century Chinese ink painting of six persimmons attributed to the Southern Song Chan monk Muqi, held at Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
Sketch of Rare Birds
Sketch of Rare Birds (Xiesheng zhenqin tu, 写生珍禽图) is a Five Dynasties handscroll attributed to the court painter Huang Quan, depicting 24 birds, insects, and turtles with fine precision.
Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God
The Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, also called the Hodegetria of Smolensk, is a celebrated Russian icon of the Virgin holding the Christ Child.
Snowy Bamboo
Snowy Bamboo (雪竹图) is a large unsigned ink-on-silk hanging scroll depicting bamboo, rocks, and snow, attributed to the Five Dynasties Southern Tang painter Xu Xi and held by the Shanghai Museum.