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Sidney Paget
Sidney Paget (Sidney Edward Paget, 1860-1908), British illustrator for The Strand Magazine whose 356 Sherlock Holmes drawings, deerstalker and Inverness cape, defined the detective's iconic image.
Sienese school
The Sienese school is the painting tradition that developed in Siena, Tuscany, from the 13th through the 16th centuries, producing Duccio, Simone Martini, and the Lorenzetti brothers.
Signage
Signage: physical signs, symbols, and graphics conveying direction, location, safety, or action in built spaces. Also called sign systems; distinct from wayfinding (a tool within it) and environmental graphic design. Covers signboard history from 1866, ADA tactile and ISO standards, and retail impact data.
Silhouette
Silhouette portraiture: solid black profile likenesses cut from paper or painted, named after French finance minister Étienne de Silhouette; popular from about 1700 until photography, revived by Edouart and reimagined by Kara Walker.
Silk Spectre
Silk Spectre, two Watchmen characters by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Sally Jupiter, original Minutemen-era heroine, and her daughter Laurie Juspeczyk, Doctor Manhattan's partner, inspired by Black Canary, Nightshade, and Phantom Lady.
Silpa Bhirasri
Silpa Bhirasri (ศิลป์ พีระศรี), born Corrado Feroci, was an Italian-born sculptor who served Thailand from 1924, founded Silpakorn University, and created Bangkok's Democracy and Victory Monuments.
Silver Horn Calendar
The Silver Horn Calendar is a pictorial Kiowa calendar drawn by artist Silver Horn (Haungooah), covering one hundred years of Kiowa history from 1828 to 1929.
Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag (born 1984) is a Swedish artist and author of the narrative art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State, self-taught digital paintings of alternate-history Sweden adapted into a 2020 Amazon series and 2025 Netflix film.
Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) was a French Baroque painter who trained in Rome and, as first painter to Louis XIII from 1627, reshaped Parisian painting; his pupils included Charles Le Brun.
Simone Martini
Simone Martini, born in Siena around 1284 and died in Avignon in 1344, was an Italian painter of the Sienese school known for his 1333 Annunciation in the Uffizi.
Sino-Tibetan style
Sino-Tibetan style is an art-historical term for Buddhist art produced in Chinese imperial workshops that fuses Tibetan Buddhist iconography with Chinese materials, techniques, and imperial aesthetics.
Sion Treasure
The Sion Treasure is a hoard of 57 sixth-century Byzantine silver liturgical vessels found illegally in 1963 near Kumluca, Turkey, and now split across five collections.
Sir J. J. School of Art
Sir J. J. School of Art, now Sir J. J. School of Art, Architecture and Design, is a government art school in Mumbai founded in 1857 with a donation from Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet (1818-1890), born Richard Jackson, was a British collector, likely illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess of Hertford, inheritor of the Hertford art collection, donor of the Wallace fountains of Paris, and namesake of the Wallace Collection.
Sirohi sword (सिरोही तलवार)
Sirohi sword (सिरोही तलवार), a slightly curved single-edged Indian talwar made in Sirohi, Rajasthan, famed as Maansahi steel; built as raw iron sandwiched between steel sheets, 27-31 inches long, still forged there today.
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) is the Vatican Palace's principal papal chapel, built 1477–1480 for Sixtus IV, decorated by Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio, and frescoed by Michelangelo with the Genesis ceiling (1508–1512) and Last Judgment (1536–1541); it hosts papal conclaves.
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sistine Chapel ceiling: vault of the Vatican's main papal chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo 1508–1512 with nine Genesis scenes, twelve Prophets and Sibyls, and ancestors of Christ; seat of the papal conclave since 1878 and restored 1979–1999.
Sistine Madonna
Sistine Madonna (Madonna di San Sisto), Raphael's 1512–1513 oil altarpiece for San Sisto, Piacenza, commissioned by Pope Julius II, showing Madonna, Child, Sixtus II, Barbara, and putti; held in Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister since 1754.
Sita Devi (Madhubani artist)
Sita Devi (सीता देवी) was an Indian painter from Jitwarpur village in Madhubani district, Bihar, among the first to move Madhubani painting onto paper and canvas.
Sittanavasal paintings
The Sittanavasal paintings are 7th- to 9th-century Jain murals in the Arivar Koil cave temple at Sittanavasal, Tamil Nadu, among South India's earliest surviving murals and principal early Jain wall painting.
Six Persimmons
Six Persimmons (六柿圖) is a 13th-century Chinese ink painting of six persimmons attributed to the Southern Song Chan monk Muqi, held at Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
Six Principles of Chinese Painting
The Six Principles of Chinese Painting (六法) are six criteria for making and judging painting, set out by the critic Xie He around 500, from spirit resonance to copying.
Siyah Qalam
Siyah Qalam (سیاهقلَم, "black pen") is a genre of monochrome ink drawing in Persian art, and a famous group of such works in Istanbul's Topkapı Palace Library.
Skaar (character)
Skaar (character): Marvel Comics son of the Hulk and Caiera the Oldstrong, created by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr., debuting in World War Hulk #5 (2008). Wields gamma powers and Sakaar's Old Power; adapted in Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and She-Hulk (2022, Wil Deusner).
Sketch (drawing)
Sketch (drawing): a rapid freehand drawing or study for recording ideas and preparing finished works; also called esquisse or oil sketch; includes cartoons, sketchbooks, and preparatory studies by Raphael, Rubens, and Matisse.
Sketch of Rare Birds
Sketch of Rare Birds (Xiesheng zhenqin tu, 写生珍禽图) is a Five Dynasties handscroll attributed to the court painter Huang Quan, depicting 24 birds, insects, and turtles with fine precision.
Skipper (Barbie)
Skipper (Skipper Roberts) is Mattel's Barbie doll little sister, introduced 1964 as Barbie's first family member, aged eight at debut. Known for six vintage versions, the controversial 1975 Growing Up Skipper, and the current Skipper Babysitters Inc. teen babysitter playline.
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret), also titled Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, is Van Gogh's 1886 Antwerp oil on canvas, 32.3 × 24.8 cm, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Skunder Boghossian
Skunder Boghossian (Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian, 1937–2003) was an Ethiopian painter and art teacher, a leading figure of African modernism whose work fused Ethiopian sacred imagery with surrealist and Pan-African traditions.
Sky Above Clouds IV
Sky Above Clouds IV is a 1965 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe depicting rows of white clouds seen from an airplane, the largest of her career, hanging at the Art Institute of Chicago.