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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880) was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School's second generation, remembered as a leading figure of American Luminism and a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sans-serif
Sans-serif typefaces lack the small finishing strokes (serifs) of serif letterforms. First seen in Caslon IV's 1816 specimen, named in Figgins' 1832 book, classified as grotesque, neo-grotesque, geometric, and humanist; dominant on screens and in accessibility guidance.
Sansuiga
Sansuiga (山水画, Chinese: shan shui hua) is a genre of East Asian painting depicting idealized mountain-and-river scenery, which arose in China and spread to Japan, Korea, and elsewhere.
Santiniketan school
The Santiniketan school was a group of artists active at Santiniketan in West Bengal from 1921, led by Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Benodebehari Mukherjee, and Ramkinkar Baij.
Santo (art)
A santo (Spanish for "saint") is a sculpted or painted religious image of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the saints, called poon in the Philippines, produced for Catholic devotion.
Santos carving
Santos are carved and polychromed images of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints made in the Philippines from the 16th through the 19th centuries, in wood and ivory, for churches and homes.
Santu Mofokeng
Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020) was a South African photographer known for photographic essays of everyday black life, spirituality, and landscape, and for the archival work The Black Photo Album.
Sanxingdui bronzes
The Sanxingdui bronzes are bronze artifacts from the sacrificial pits of the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan, China, dating to the late Shang period and famous for masks with protruding eyes.
Sanyu
Sanyu (常玉), also romanized Chang Yu, was a Chinese painter who worked in Paris from the early 1920s until his death in 1966, fusing Chinese calligraphic line with European modernism.
São Paulo Art Biennial
The São Paulo Art Biennial (Bienal de São Paulo) is a contemporary art exhibition held every two years in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1951 by Ciccillo Matarazzo.
São Paulo Museum of Art
MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand), private nonprofit museum founded 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand, directed 1947–1990 by Pietro Maria Bardi; Lina Bo Bardi's 1968 suspended Paulista building; over 11,000 works; 2025 Bardi tower.
Sao terracottas and bronzes
Sao terracottas and bronzes are fired-clay figures and metal sculptures made by the Sao civilization of the Lake Chad basin, in what is now Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
Sapi-Portuguese ivories
Sapi-Portuguese ivories are carved ivory saltcellars, horns, and spoons made by Sapi artists in Sierra Leone in the late 15th and 16th centuries for Portuguese buyers.
Sapphire set of Queen Marie-Amalie and Queen Hortense
The sapphire set of Queen Marie-Amalie and Queen Hortense is a sapphire-and-diamond parure made in Paris between 1800 and 1835, worn by Queens Hortense and Marie-Amélie and stolen from the Louvre in 2025.
Sarah Biffin
Sarah Biffin (1784–1850), English portrait miniaturist born without arms or legs (phocomelia), painted with her mouth; exhibited at the Royal Academy, held royal appointments, rediscovered with record sales since 2019.
Sarah Hillary
Sarah Hillary (born 1956, Auckland) is a New Zealand painting conservator, Principal Conservator at Auckland Art Gallery 1997-2024, daughter of Sir Edmund Hillary, known for technical studies of McCahon, Hodgkins, Lindauer forgery detection, and her own matchbox-diorama art.
Sarah Lewis (art historian)
Sarah Lewis is a Harvard art historian, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor, author of The Rise (2014) and The Unseen Truth (2024), and founder of Vision & Justice.
Sarah Moon
Sarah Moon, born in 1941, is a French photographer and filmmaker known for soft-focus, grainy fashion images; she shot the 1972 Pirelli Calendar and campaigns for Biba and Cacharel.
Sarcophagus of Constantina
The Sarcophagus of Constantina is a monumental red porphyry coffin made in the mid-fourth century for Constantina, a daughter of Constantine the Great who died in 354.
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is a monumental Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn made at Cerveteri around 530-520 BCE, whose lid shows a married couple reclining on a banquet couch.
Sarnath seated Buddha preaching
The Sarnath seated Buddha preaching is a Buddha image type showing his first sermon, its most famous 5th-century Gupta sculpture held in the Sarnath Museum.
Sarnath standing Buddha
The Sarnath standing Buddha is a Gupta-period free-standing sculpture of the Buddha in standing posture, carved at Sarnath, India, with the right hand raised in protection.
Sasanian silverware
Sasanian silverware is the body of luxury silver and silver-gilt vessels made in Iran and nearby lands under the Sasanian dynasty (224–651), its most famous pieces showing the king hunting on horseback.
Sasanian stucco
Sasanian stucco, known in Persian as gač-borī (گچبری), is gypsum plaster architectural decoration of the Sasanian Empire (224 to 651 CE) in Iran and Mesopotamia.
Sassanian intaglio seals
Sassanian intaglio seals are small semiprecious-stone stamp seals of the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224–651 CE), carved in intaglio and used as personal signatures and administrative instruments.
Sasuke Uchiha (うちはサスケ)
Sasuke Uchiha is a fictional character from the manga NARUTO, created by Masashi Kishimoto. After the clan massacre, he became an avenger and later served as the village's outside protector.
Saturn Devouring His Son
Saturn Devouring His Son (Saturno devorando a un hijo) is Goya's c. 1820–1823 mural from the Black Paintings at the Quinta del Sordo, transferred to canvas in 1873 and held at the Museo del Prado, P00763.
Saturnino Herrán
Saturnino Herrán (Saturnino Efrén de Jesús Herrán Guinchard, 1887–1918) was a Mexican painter from Aguascalientes known for La ofrenda and Nuestros dioses, whose work made him a precursor of Mexican muralism.
Saul Bass
Saul Bass (1920–1996), American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker; created Vertigo, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Psycho title sequences and the AT&T, Bell System, United Airlines, and Quaker Oats logos.
Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter whose painterly color street photographs of New York City, made from the late 1940s, gained fame after 2006.