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Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) was a Romanian-born American artist and draftsman who made nearly 90 covers and over 1,200 drawings for The New Yorker, including View of the World from 9th Avenue.
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.
Scagliola
Scagliola is an artificial marble made from fine gypsum plaster, glue, and pigments, polished to imitate natural marble or hardstone inlay, known in Central Europe as stucco marble.
Scaliger Tombs
The Scaliger Tombs (Arche Scaligere) are Gothic funerary monuments in Verona holding the tombs of the Della Scala family, lords of the city in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Scarlet Page
Scarlet Page, English music and portrait photographer, daughter of Jimmy Page and Charlotte Martin. Nikon Ambassador since 2022; first published Chris Cornell in 1993; known for Resonators, the Placebo book Exposed, and 30 years of rock photography.
Scenes in and around Kyoto (Funaki version)
Scenes in and around Kyoto (Funaki version) is a 17th-century pair of folding screens attributed to Iwasa Matabei, held as a National Treasure by the Tokyo National Museum.
School of Fontainebleau
The School of Fontainebleau (École de Fontainebleau) is the group of mostly Italian and French artists who decorated the Château de Fontainebleau for the French crown from 1530.
School of Paris
The School of Paris (École de Paris) was the loose group of mostly foreign-born artists, including Picasso, Chagall, and Modigliani, who worked in Paris from about 1900 until World War II.
School of Seville
The School of Seville (escuela sevillana) is the regional painting tradition of Seville, Spain, which reached its defining form in the 17th century under Zurbarán and Murillo.
School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts (SVA) is a private for-profit art and design college in Manhattan, founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and renamed in 1956; about 3,244 undergraduates, 93% acceptance, Middle States accredited, top-20 QS art and design.
Schwarzenberg Carpet
The Schwarzenberg carpet is a large 16th-century Safavid Persian carpet, named for the Austrian family that once owned it, now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
Scipione Borghese
Scipione Borghese, born Scipione Caffarelli (1576–1633), was an Italian cardinal and cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul V who amassed one of the largest art collections of his age.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams (1957–2026), American cartoonist who created the syndicated strip Dilbert; author of The Dilbert Principle; Reuben Award 1997; dropped by syndication in 2023 after racist remarks; died of prostate cancer.
Scott Campbell (tattoo artist)
Scott Campbell, Louisiana-born American tattoo artist and fine artist, founder of Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; clients include Marc Jacobs and Heath Ledger; known for currency sculptures, Whole Glory, Beboe. Not the illustrator Scott C., J. Scott Campbell, or the urologist.
Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell is an American writer who wrote Marvel's X-Men titles in the 1990s. He later worked for DC Comics and scripted the 2017 film Happy Death Day.
Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw, sometimes spelled skrimshaw, is the art of carving and engraving sperm whale teeth, walrus tusks, and whale bone, practiced by whalers at sea from the late 1700s.
Scrotie
Scrotie is the unofficial, roughly seven-foot-tall anthropomorphic penis mascot of the Rhode Island School of Design's Nads hockey team, debuting in 2001 with Brian Chesky among its creators, rebuilt several times, and banned from campus but still appearing at games.
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional art made by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials such as stone, bronze, clay, and wood, produced as unique objects or numbered editions, with a history reaching back to around 32,000 BCE and expanding today through digital fabrication.
Sculpture in India
Sculpture in India is the tradition of three-dimensional art in stone, bronze, and terracotta, serving Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religion from about 2500 BCE onward.
Scythian goldwork
Scythian goldwork is the gold jewelry, weapon decoration, and horse trappings made for the nomadic Scythians of the Eurasian steppe, chiefly between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE.
Scythian-Siberian animal style
The Scythian-Siberian animal style, also called the Scytho-Siberian animal style, is the stylized animal art of Early Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe, from Ukraine to Mongolia.
Seagram Murals
The Seagram Murals are about thirty canvases Mark Rothko painted in 1958 and 1959 for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, then withdrew from the commission.
Seal carving
Seal carving (篆刻, zhuànkè; Japanese tenkoku) is the East Asian art of engraving seal-script characters onto stamps, inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009.
Sean Phillips
Sean Phillips (born 1965) is a British comic book artist, longtime Ed Brubaker collaborator, and Eisner winner known for Criminal, Fatale, Reckless, Sleeper, and Hellblazer; not the NHS policy figure or other namesakes.
Seated Iron Bhaisajyaguru of Janggoksa
The Seated Iron Bhaisajyaguru of Janggoksa is a cast-iron Medicine Buddha statue at Janggoksa Temple in Cheongyang, South Korea, made in the early 10th century.
Seated Miroku of Kōryū-ji
The Seated Miroku of Kōryū-ji (広隆寺弥勒菩薩半跏像) is a 7th-century wooden statue of the bodhisattva Maitreya in pensive pose, kept at Kōryū-ji temple in Kyoto and carved from a single piece of red pine.
Seated Muchaku
Seated Muchaku, despite its name a standing statue of the bodhisattva Mujaku (Asanga), was carved by Unkei around 1212 and kept at Kofuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan.
Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland (born 1964) is a British-French-American polar explorer, photographer, and author; son of conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus, he led the first East/West crossing of Antarctica (2011-12) and set a 595 km kite-ski record in Greenland.
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo, born Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italian painter who trained in Venice and moved to Rome in 1511, fusing Venetian color with Michelangelo's style.