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Ruthwell Cross
The Ruthwell Cross is an early eighth-century Anglo-Saxon stone high cross carved with scenes from Christ's life and inscriptions in Latin and Old English runes, now inside Ruthwell Parish Church in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Ryoko Kui (九井 諒子)
Ryoko Kui (九井 諒子) is a Japanese manga artist, debut 2011, creator of Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi), Harta 2014–2023, 14 volumes, 14 million copies, 2024 Studio Trigger-era anime and second season announced.
S. H. Raza
S. H. Raza, born Sayed Haider Raza, was an Indian modernist painter known for geometric abstractions built around the bindu, a dot drawn from Indian spiritual traditions.
S. Sudjojono
S. Sudjojono (Sindudarsono Sudjojono, 1913–1986) was an Indonesian painter known as the Father of Modern Indonesian Painting, who co-founded the artists' union Persagi in 1938 and championed social realism.
Sabine Weiss
Sabine Weiss, born Sabine Weber (1924–2021), was a Swiss-born photographer based in Paris, a leading figure of postwar humanist photography and its last living member.
Sabrina Online
Sabrina Online is a furry slice-of-life webcomic by Eric W. Schwartz, launched September 15, 1996, starring skunk graphic designer Sabrina, roommate Amy the squirrel, and adult-studio boss Zig Zag; it ran 20 years, about 835 strips, then continued in color from 2017.
Şadırvan
A şadırvan is a domed or canopied water structure built in a mosque courtyard for ritual ablution, with taps around a central pool; it forms an integral part of Ottoman mosque architecture.
Saeki Yūzō
Saeki Yūzō (佐伯祐三, 1898–1928) was a Japanese painter known for expressive street scenes of Paris, painted during two stays in France before his death there in 1928, aged 30.
Safavid album painting
Safavid album painting, known in Persian as muraqqa', is the tradition of independent single-page paintings made in Safavid Iran, peaking at Isfahan in the seventeenth century.
Safavid figural tilework panels
Safavid figural tilework panels are large compositions of painted stonepaste tiles made in seventeenth-century Iran, chiefly Isfahan, depicting figures, animals, and garden scenes in palace pavilions.
Safavid hunting carpet
A Safavid hunting carpet is a knotted-pile Persian court carpet of the 16th century, filled with mounted hunters, animals in combat, and flowering plants around a central medallion.
Safavid miniature painting
Safavid miniature painting is Persian manuscript illustration and standalone painting in Iran during Safavid rule (1501–1722), producing celebrated works such as the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp.
Safavid silk textiles
Safavid silk textiles are the silks, velvets, and silk carpets produced in Iran under the Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722, the high point of Iranian loom weaving.
Saffron (color)
Saffron is a yellow-orange color named after the Crocus sativus spice, hex #F4C430, based on crocin pigments; also India saffron (Kesari), the top band of the Indian flag and a Hindu nationalist symbol.
Şahkulu
Şahkulu (died 1556) was an Ottoman court painter who headed the imperial painting atelier of Topkapı Palace under Süleyman the Magnificent and founded the saz style.
Saigon Execution
Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Eddie Adams showing South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon; it won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize.
Saint Louis of Toulouse (Donatello)
Saint Louis of Toulouse is a gilded bronze statue of the saint and bishop by Donatello, made for Orsanmichele in Florence between 1418 and 1425.
Saint symbolism
Saint symbolism: the attribute system of Christian art, in which objects, animals, and instruments of martyrdom (Peter's keys, Catherine's wheel, Jerome's lion) identify saints in paintings, icons, and stained glass, rooted in relic veneration and standardized from the twelfth century.
Sakai Hōitsu
Sakai Hōitsu (酒井抱一, 1761–1828) was a Japanese painter, haiku poet, and art scholar from a daimyo family who established the Edo Rinpa school and revived Ogata Kōrin's art.
Sakai Hōitsu's Rimpa revival
Sakai Hōitsu's Rimpa revival was the early 19th-century reconstitution of the Rimpa style of Japanese painting in Edo by Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828), who published Kōrin's designs and organized the lineage as the Ogata school.
Sakti Burman
Sakti Burman (born 1935) is an Indian modernist painter, sculptor, and lithographer based in Paris, known for dreamlike paintings blending Hindu mythology and fresco-like marbling.
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.
Salabhanjika of Sanchi
The Salabhanjika of Sanchi are sandstone bracket figures of female tree spirits, carved in the tribhanga pose clasping a fruiting tree, supporting the gateways of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
Salah Taher
Salah Taher (صلاح طاهر, 1911–2007) was an Egyptian painter, a pioneer of abstraction in Egyptian painting who also directed the Cairo Museum of Modern Art.
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.
Sally Brown
Sally Brown is Charlie Brown's little sister in Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, first appearing August 23, 1959 as a baby. Known for her crush on Linus ("my sweet babboo," from 1977), her eye patch storyline, and her cynical pragmatism.
Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born 1951, Lexington, Virginia) is an American photographer of Immediate Family, Southern landscapes, and wet-plate collodion work; author of Hold Still, winner of the 2021 Prix Pictet.
Salon (Paris)
Salon (Paris): the official juried exhibition of living artists' work in Paris, named for the Louvre's Salon Carré, held from 1667 under the French Academy until state control ended in 1880, followed by the Société des Artistes Français and rival salons.
Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne, annual Paris juried art exhibition founded in 1903 by Frantz Jourdain at the Petit Palais; host of the 1905 Fauvism scandal, Cézanne's 1907 retrospective, and modern movements since.
Salon des Indépendants
The Salon des Indépendants (Salon des artistes indépendants) is an annual Paris art exhibition since 1884, open to any artist who pays the fee, with no jury and no prizes.