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Spring Outing
Spring Outing (Youchun Tu, 游春图) is a Chinese handscroll attributed to the Sui dynasty painter Zhan Ziqian, held in Beijing's Palace Museum and regarded as the earliest surviving Chinese landscape painting scroll.
Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo
Spring Outing of Lady Guoguo (虢国夫人游春图) is a Song dynasty silk handscroll painting attributed to Tang painter Zhang Xuan, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Spy vs. Spy
Spy vs. Spy is Mad magazine's wordless comic strip, created by Cuban exile cartoonist Antonio Prohias and debuting in Mad #60 (January 1961), pitting the Black Spy against the White Spy; drawn by Peter Kuper since 1997.
Squirrels in a Plane Tree
Squirrels in a Plane Tree is an early 17th-century Mughal miniature painting attributed to the court artist Abu'l Hasan, held in the British Library, London, since 1807.
Srihadi Soedarsono
Srihadi Soedarsono (1931–2022) was an Indonesian modernist painter, a leading figure of the Bandung School, known for horizon-line landscapes and gestural paintings of classical Javanese and Balinese dancers.
Srivijayan art
Srivijayan art is the Buddhist sculpture and architecture produced in the orbit of Srivijaya, a maritime empire based at Palembang in southern Sumatra that flourished from the 7th century.
St. Peter's Baldachin
St. Peter's Baldachin (Baldacchino di San Pietro) is a 29-meter-tall bronze canopy that Gian Lorenzo Bernini built over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica between 1624 and 1633.
Stadia II
Stadia II is a 2004 ink and acrylic painting by Julie Mehretu depicting stadiums as arenas of nationalism, spectacle, and revolution; it is held in Pittsburgh.
Staff God
Staff God: frontal staff-bearing deity of ancient Andean art, also called Front-Face Deity, from Chavín through Tiwanaku and Wari, often identified with Inca Viracocha; distinct from the Polynesian Cook Islands staff god (atua rakau).
Staffordshire figures
Staffordshire figures are cheap press-molded earthenware pottery figures made in the Staffordshire Potteries of England from the 18th century into the 20th, peaking in the Victorian era.
Stag at Sharkey's
Stag at Sharkey's is a 1909 oil painting by George Bellows showing two boxers fighting at a private New York boxing club, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Staged photography
Staged photography is the deliberate arranging or constructing of a scene before the camera, rather than recording a spontaneous moment; it is also called directorial photography.
Stained glass
Stained glass: colored glass, usually leaded and often painted and fired, seen in transmitted light; peaked in Europe 1150–1500; covers materials, history, conservation, lead exposure, Notre-Dame debate.
Stan Winston
Stan Winston (1946–2008), American makeup, creature, and visual-effects artist, founder of Stan Winston Studio and co-founder of Digital Domain; four Oscar wins for Aliens, Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park.
Stańczyk (painting)
Stańczyk (1862) is Jan Matejko's oil painting of the sad Polish court jester, 88 × 120 cm, National Museum in Warsaw, showing him alone while Queen Bona's ball continues and news of the 1514 loss of Smolensk arrives.
Standard Bearer of Tula
The Standard Bearer of Tula (Spanish: portaestandarte) is a stone sculpture holding a banner, made at the Toltec capital of Tula, Mexico, around 900 to 1000 CE.
Standing Buddha from Sarnath
The Standing Buddha from Sarnath is a 5th-century Gupta sandstone sculpture found at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, showing the Buddha with one hand raised in protection and held in the British Museum.
Standing cross
A standing cross is an upright, free-standing stone cross erected in Britain and Ireland from the mid 10th to mid 16th centuries, serving processions, preaching, markets, and proclamation.
Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon
A Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon (十一面観音立像, Jūichimen Kannon ryūzō) is a Japanese statue of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion, with ten small heads above the main head, produced from the Nara period (710–794) onward.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, was a Polish painter, playwright, and philosopher, a central figure of the interwar avant-garde who wrote more than thirty plays.
Stanislaw Noakowski
Stanisław Noakowski (1867–1928) was a Polish architect and graphic artist who built almost nothing, remembered for thousands of drawings of imaginary architecture in historical styles.
Stanisław Szukalski
Stanisław Szukalski (1893–1987), also Stach z Warty, Polish sculptor of the Chicago Renaissance; Grand Prix at 1925 Paris; led Szczep Rogate Serce; later created Zermatism and Protong; rediscovered via DiCaprio's Netflix film Struggle.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907) was a Polish playwright, poet, painter, and stained-glass designer active in Kraków, a leading figure of Young Poland whose drama Wesele remains a fixture of the Polish stage.
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood, born 1968) is the English artist and writer behind nearly all Radiohead album artwork since The Bends (1995), working alongside Thom Yorke, his Exeter University collaborator, plus Glastonbury Festival art since 2002, two Grammys, Macfarlane book covers, and the 2025 Ashmolean retrospective.
Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), English painter of Cookham, Berkshire; Slade-trained, RAMC veteran of Macedonia, creator of Sandham Memorial Chapel murals and The Resurrection, Cookham; knighted 1958.
Stanza della Segnatura
Stanza della Segnatura: Vatican Palace room frescoed by Raphael 1508-1511 as Julius II's private library, containing the School of Athens, Disputa, Parnassus, and Jurisprudence frescoes; named for the Segnatura Gratiae et Iustitiae tribunal.
Star (classification)
Star (classification): a grading system ranking hotels and other services into one-to-five star categories. Covers official schemes (India's Ministry of Tourism, Hotelstars Union, China's GB/T 14308), self-assigned US stars, MICHELIN Keys, and guest review scores.
Star (glyph)
Star (glyph): typographic star symbols, chiefly U+2605 BLACK STAR and asterisk forms; used for footnotes, ratings, the Moroccan flag, the ITU-T E.161 telephony star, and ancient Sumerian dingir.
Starjammers
Starjammers: Marvel Comics space pirate team led by Corsair (Christopher Summers), father of Cyclops and Havok; created by Claremont and Cockrum, first appearing in X-Men #104/#107 (1977); foes of the Shi'ar Empire and X-Men allies.
Starry Night Over the Rhône
Starry Night Over the Rhône (Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône), Vincent van Gogh, September 1888, Arles; oil on canvas, 72.5 × 92 cm, Musée d'Orsay RF 1975 19, catalog F474. Distinct from the 1889 MoMA Starry Night; painted outdoors by gaslight, first full night sky.