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Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi is a Southern Dynasties brick mural unearthed in 1960 at Nanjing and held by the Nanjing Museum.
Sèvres porcelain
Sèvres porcelain is made by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, founded in 1740 at Vincennes and moved to Sèvres in 1756, Europe's leading porcelain maker by the later 1700s.
Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast (born 1931, the Bronx, New York) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and author who co-founded Push Pin Studios in 1954 and received the AIGA Medal in 1985.
Sfumato
Sfumato, from Italian fumo (smoke), is Leonardo da Vinci's painting technique of smoky, edgeless tonal transitions built from thin translucent oil glazes, seen in the Mona Lisa and Virgin of the Rocks, distinct from chiaroscuro and glazing.
Shades (comics)
Shades (Herman/Hernan Alvarez) is a Marvel Comics street villain created by Archie Goodwin and George Tuska, debuting in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 (1972); a Harlem Rivals gang member, Comanche's partner, optic-blast visor wearer, father of Power Man, and Theo Rossi's Netflix Luke Cage character.
Shades of pink
Shades of pink: the range of light reds from pale blush to hot pink, anchored by CSS pink #FFC0CB, eight CSS named pinks, ISCC-NBS and ORCN naming, print behavior, and the color's shifting gender history.
Shades of white
Shades of white: the range from pure white (#FFFFFF) to tinted off-whites like ivory (#FFFFF0), cream, and eggshell, covering color naming, white pigments from chalk and lead white to titanium white, and practical uses in design.
Shadow King
Shadow King (Amahl Farouk) is a Marvel Comics X-Men villain: an ancient parasitic telepathic entity possessing human hosts, created by Claremont and Byrne, debuting in Uncanny X-Men #117 (1979), known for the Muir Island Saga and the FX series Legion.
Shaft-tomb ceramics of West Mexico
Shaft-tomb ceramics of West Mexico are fired-clay figures and vessels placed in deep shaft tombs in Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima between about 250 BCE and 400 CE.
Shah Diamond
The Shah Diamond is an 88.7-carat yellowish-brown Indian diamond bearing three Persian inscriptions of its owners, presented to Tsar Nicholas I in 1829 and now held in the Kremlin's Diamond Fund in Moscow.
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne is a Mughal miniature of about 1635, attributed to the imperial painter Govardhan, showing Shah Jahan on his jeweled golden throne.
Shahnameh of Baysunghur
The Shahnameh of Baysunghur (شاهنامه بایسنقری) is a luxury illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed in Herat in 1430 and held in Tehran's Golestan Palace Library.
Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
Muraqqa'-i Shah Tahmasp (Shahnama-yi Shahi) is a lavish illustrated copy of Ferdowsi's epic, produced at the Safavid royal workshop in Tabriz starting in the early 1520s.
Shaka Triad of Hōryū-ji
The Shaka Triad of Hōryū-ji (釈迦三尊像) is a gilt-bronze Buddhist triad of 623 CE by the sculptor Tori, the main image of Hōryū-ji's Golden Hall.
Shakir Hassan Al Said
Shakir Hassan Al Said (شاكر حسن آل سعيد, 1925–2004) was an Iraqi painter and theorist who co-founded the Baghdad Group for Modern Art in 1951 and the One Dimension Group in 1971.
Shanghai School
The Shanghai School, or Haipai (海派), was a group of Chinese painters active in Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century, known for vivid colors and popular subjects.
Shanti Dave
Shanti Dave (born 1931) is an Indian modernist painter, a pioneer of calligraphic abstraction who created large encaustic murals for Parliament House and Air India offices.
Sharaku
Tōshūsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽) was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print designer, active about ten months in 1794 and 1795, known for striking kabuki actor portraits and an unknown identity.
Shatterstar
Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven) is a Marvel Comics mutant swordsman from Mojoworld, co-created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, debuting in New Mutants #99 (1991) as an X-Force member and later half of the first mainstream same-sex superhero kiss with Rictor.
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer, and film-maker from Perth based in Melbourne, known for surreal, dream-like illustrated books such as The Arrival (2006).
Shaynna Blaze
Shaynna Blaze (also Shaynna Blaze-Vaughan) is an Australian interior designer and TV personality, judge on The Block since 2012 and co-presenter of Selling Houses Australia (2008-2022), author, Celebrity Apprentice 2021 winner, and Voice of Change charity founder.
She-Hulk
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters), Marvel Comics superhero and lawyer, cousin of Bruce Banner; debuted in Savage She-Hulk #1 (February 1980) by Stan Lee and John Buscema; gains powers from Banner's gamma-irradiated blood transfusion, keeps her intelligence, starred in the 2022 Disney+ series.
Sheela Gowda
Sheela Gowda (born 1957) is an Indian contemporary artist known for large-scale installations made from everyday materials like cow dung, human hair, and tar drums, addressing labor and ritual.
Sheela na gig
Sheela na gig (Irish Síle na gCíoch) is a medieval Romanesque stone carving of a naked woman displaying exaggerated genitalia, found on churches and castles in Ireland and Britain; over 100 Irish examples, meaning debated (apotropaic, lust warning, fertility).
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: jungle-adventure heroine created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger, debuted in Wags/Jumbo Comics (1937-38), first female-titled comic book (Fiction House, 1942-52), later a 1955-56 TV series with Irish McCalla, the 1984 flop film with Tanya Roberts, and a 2000-2002 series with Gena Lee Nolin.
Shekhawati frescoes
Shekhawati fresco painting is a tradition of wall painting from the 18th to early 20th centuries that covers havelis and temples in northern Rajasthan, India.
Shen Quan
Shen Quan (沈銓), sobriquet Nanpin, was a Chinese bird-and-flower painter of the Qing dynasty who taught in Nagasaki from 1731 to 1733, founding the Japanese Nanpin school.
Shen Zongqian
Shen Zongqian (沈宗骞, c. 1736–1820), courtesy name Xiyuan and art name Jiezhou, was a Qing dynasty literati painter and theorist from Huzhou, Zhejiang, known for his 1781 treatise Jiezhou Xuehuabian.
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey (Frank Shepard Fairey, b. 1970, Charleston, SC), American street artist and graphic designer behind the OBEY Giant campaign and the 2008 Obama HOPE poster; founder of OBEY Clothing and Studio Number One.
Shermy
Shermy is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles Schulz, debuting October 2, 1950 with Charlie Brown and Patty, speaking the strip's first line, and last appearing June 15, 1969.