5,509 articles
Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés was an 1863 Paris exhibition ordered by Napoleon III to show works rejected by the official Salon's jury, including Manet's scandalous Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Salt Cellar of Francis I
The Salt Cellar of Francis I, known as the Saliera, is an enamelled gold sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini made for Francis I between 1540 and 1543.
Salt print
A salt print, also called a salted paper print, is a photographic positive print on paper, the earliest paper print process, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot around 1839.
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.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Catalan painter from Figueres and leading Surrealist, creator of The Persistence of Memory and the paranoiac-critical method; expelled from Surrealism in 1934, famed for Un Chien Andalou with Buñuel.
Salvation Mountain
Salvation Mountain is a 50-foot painted adobe hill near Niland, California, built over three decades by folk artist Leonard Knight to proclaim "God is Love."
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.
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.
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) was an American abstract painter based in Washington, D.C., best known for large paint-stained canvases draped, folded, or hung from ceilings and walls.
Sam Nhlengethwa
Sam Nhlengethwa (Jabulani Sam Nhlengethwa, born 1955) is a South African painter and collage artist in Johannesburg whose work depicts township life, jazz musicians, and miners.
Sam Van Aken
Sam Van Aken (born 1972) is an American artist and Syracuse University professor known for the Tree of 40 Fruit, a grafted tree bearing forty stone fruit varieties.
Sambalpuri ikat
Sambalpuri ikat, locally known as Bandha, is a handwoven textile tradition from western Odisha, India, where yarn is tie-dyed before weaving, best known for its sarees.
Sami Efendi
Sami Efendi, born Mehmed Sâmi Efendi in 1838, was an Ottoman calligrapher regarded as the last great master of jali thuluth and jali ta'lik, who drew the tughras of three sultans.
SAMO
SAMO© was the street-writing project of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz (later Shannon Dawson), spraying cryptic aphorisms signed "same old shit" plus a copyright symbol on Lower Manhattan walls from 1978 to 1980, ending with "SAMO IS DEAD".
Samson and the Lion
Samson and the Lion is a bronze sculptural model showing Samson astride a lion, forcing its jaws apart with his bare hands; many casts survive, most used as inkwells.
Samson Slaying a Philistine
Samson Slaying a Philistine is a monumental marble sculpture by Giambologna, carved in Florence around 1560 to 1562 and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne (1834–1912) was an English photographer who worked in India from 1863 to 1870, made three Himalayan expeditions, produced some 2,200 views, and co-founded the studio Bourne & Shepherd.
Samuel Fosso
Samuel Fosso (born 1962, Kumba, Cameroon) is a Franco-Cameroonian photographer known for theatrical self-portraits exploring Pan-African identity, power, and representation; he won the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire (1757–1811) was an American architect, woodcarver, and furniture maker who worked almost entirely in Salem, Massachusetts, and shaped its Federal-style houses and carved ornament.
San Agustín stone sculpture
San Agustín stone sculpture is the monumental funerary statuary carved by prehispanic chiefdoms of the upper Magdalena valley in Huila, Colombia, chiefly between 1 and 900 AD.
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.
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), also Comic-Con International, is the annual summer pop culture convention in San Diego, founded in 1970, with about 135,000 attendees, Hall H studio panels, the Eisner Awards, and WonderCon as a sister event.
San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a fine arts school in San Francisco, founded in 1871, the West Coast's oldest fine art school, and closed permanently in July 2022.
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1, also called Monumento SL1, is the largest of the ten colossal Olmec heads at San Lorenzo, Veracruz, carved before 900 BC.
San Miniato al Monte
San Miniato al Monte, a Florentine Romanesque Benedictine abbey basilica begun 1013/1018 by Bishop Ildebrando on Mons Florentinus, with raised chancel over a crypt, green-and-white marble façade, 1297 apse mosaic, and Michelangelo's 1530 wool-bale bell tower protection.
San rock art of the Drakensberg
The San rock art of the Drakensberg is a corpus of thousands of hunter-gatherer rock paintings in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains, made by San communities over more than four millennia.
Sanchi Yakshi
The Sanchi Yakshi is a sandstone figure of a female tree spirit on the eastern gateway of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, India, dated to about the mid-first century BCE.
Sandpainting
Sandpainting (Navajo iikááh; Tibetan dul tson kyil khor) is ephemeral ceremonial art made by sprinkling colored sand and powdered materials, used for Navajo healing rites and Tibetan Buddhist mandalas, then ritually destroyed.
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.
Sandy Hawkins
Sandy Hawkins, also known as Sandy the Golden Boy, is a DC Comics superhero introduced in 1941 as the teenage sidekick of the original Sandman.