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Sophia the Wisdom of God (Novgorod)
Sophia the Wisdom of God (София Премудрость Божия) is a fifteenth-century Russian allegorical icon type, associated with Novgorod, showing Divine Wisdom as a winged, royal, red-faced angelic figure.
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade
Southern Barbarians Come to Trade (南蛮人来朝図, Nanbanjin raichō zu) is the title of a pair of six-panel folding screens at the Kobe City Museum, attributed to Kanō Naizen.
Speculations about Mona Lisa
Speculations about Mona Lisa cover the sitter's identity (Lisa Gherardini vs alternatives), claimed earlier versions like the Isleworth Mona Lisa, the Prado copy, hidden-painting claims, smile and gaze perception studies, and medical iconodiagnoses.
Spring Morning in the Han Palace
Spring Morning in the Han Palace (汉宫春晓图) is a long handscroll painting by Ming dynasty painter Qiu Ying, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Spring Outing
Spring Outing (Youchun Tu, 游春图) is a Chinese handscroll attributed to the Sui dynasty painter Zhan Ziqian, held in Beijing's Palace Museum and regarded as the earliest surviving Chinese landscape painting scroll.
Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo
Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo (虢国夫人游春图) is a Song dynasty silk handscroll painting attributed to Tang painter Zhang Xuan, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Squirrels in a Plane Tree
Squirrels in a Plane Tree is an early 17th-century Mughal miniature painting attributed to the court artist Abu'l Hasan, held in the British Library, London, since 1807.
Stanza della Segnatura
Stanza della Segnatura: Vatican Palace room frescoed by Raphael 1508-1511 as Julius II's private library, containing the School of Athens, Disputa, Parnassus, and Jurisprudence frescoes; named for the Segnatura Gratiae et Iustitiae tribunal.
Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh
The Süleymanname of Matrakçı Nasuh, also titled Süleymân-nâme, is a 16th-century illustrated Ottoman history covering Süleyman the Magnificent's reign to 1537, distinguished by topographical miniatures without human figures.
T-shaped Silk Banner from Mawangdui Tomb 1
The T-shaped Silk Banner from Mawangdui Tomb 1 (feiyi 非衣) is an early Western Han painted silk funeral banner excavated in 1972 at Changsha, Hunan.
Taima Mandala
The Taima Mandala (当麻曼荼羅) is a Japanese pictorial representation of Amitābha's Western Pure Land based on the Contemplation Sutra, named after Taimadera, the Nara temple preserving its 8th-century tapestry original.
The Ambassadors (Holbein)
The Ambassadors (Holbein): 1533 oil-on-oak double portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London, showing Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, with an anamorphic skull, scientific instruments, and a broken lute string.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere), Botticelli, c. 1485, tempera on canvas, 172.5 × 278.5 cm, Uffizi. Shows Venus arriving on Cyprus on a shell, not her birth; Medici commission, first documented by Vasari in 1550.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (El entierro del señor de Orgaz) is a large 1586–88 oil painting by El Greco in the church of Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain.
The Court of Gayumars
The Court of Gayumars, also spelled Kayumars, is a Persian miniature by Sultan Muhammad, painted around 1524 at Tabriz and now in the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam (Creazione di Adamo) is Michelangelo's 1511 Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco of Genesis 1:26-27, famous for the nearly touching fingers of God and Adam and debated anatomical interpretations.
The Feast in the House of Levi
The Feast in the House of Levi (Convito in casa di Levi) is a 1573 monumental oil painting by Paolo Veronese, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.
The Feast of Sada
The Feast of Sada is a Persian miniature attributed to Sultan Muhammad, painted around 1525 in Tabriz, showing the mythical king Hushang's discovery of fire.
The Four Sleepers
The Four Sleepers (四睡图, Shisui zu) is a Chan Buddhist painting theme showing the monk Fenggan, poet Hanshan, monk Shide, and a tiger asleep together.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is Hieronymus Bosch's triptych in oil on oak, dated 1490–1500, 205.5 × 384.9 cm open, in the Museo del Prado, showing Eden, a garden of delights, and Hell.
The Hunters in the Snow
The Hunters in the Snow (Jagers in de Sneeuw, 1565), an oil-on-oak panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, winter panel of the six-part Seasons cycle for Niclaes Jongelinck, first fully realized winter landscape.
The Immortal in Splashed Ink
The Immortal in Splashed Ink (潑墨仙人圖) is a Song dynasty album leaf in ink attributed to Liang Kai, showing a drunken, pot-bellied immortal rendered in wet ink washes.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent (icon)
The Ladder of Divine Ascent is a late 12th-century Byzantine icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, showing monks climbing toward Christ while demons drag some into Hell.
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel altar wall, painted 1536-1541 under Paul III, with 314 figures, controversial nudes, and a 2026 salt-film cleaning.
The Last Supper (Leonardo)
The Last Supper, also called Il Cenacolo, is a mural by Leonardo da Vinci showing Jesus announcing his betrayal, painted in Milan between 1494 and 1498.
The Night Revels of Han Xizai
The Night Revels of Han Xizai (韩熙载夜宴图) is a celebrated Chinese figure-painting handscroll attributed to Gu Hongzhong, depicting minister Han Xizai at a night banquet in five scenes.
The Riverbank
The Riverbank (溪岸图) is a monumental tenth-century Chinese hanging scroll attributed to the Southern Tang master Dong Yuan and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1997.
The School of Athens
The School of Athens (Scuola di Atene) is Raphael's 1509–1511 fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, depicting Plato, Aristotle, and about 58 ancient philosophers under Bramante-inspired architecture.
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is an oil painting in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, long attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, whose authorship the BRCP disputes.
The Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo
The Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo (Rokuso Setchiku-zu, 六祖截竹図) is a 13th-century hanging scroll in ink on paper by Southern Song painter Liang Kai, showing Chan patriarch Huineng cutting bamboo.