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The Dark Knight Strikes Again
The Dark Knight Strikes Again (DK2) is Frank Miller's 2001-2002 three-issue DC miniseries sequel to The Dark Knight Returns, with Lynn Varley colors, set three years later as Batman fights Lex Luthor and Brainiac's police state.
The Dead of Antietam
The Dead of Antietam was an October 1862 exhibition at Mathew Brady's New York gallery showing Alexander Gardner's photographs of battlefield dead from the Battle of Antietam, a founding moment of American war photography.
The Death of Captain Marvel
The Death of Captain Marvel, Marvel Graphic Novel #1 (1982) by Jim Starlin, Steve Oliff, and Jim Novak, is the story in which the Kree hero Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel, dies permanently of cancer caused by the villain Nitro's nerve toxin.
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777
The Death of General Mercer is an oil painting by John Trumbull depicting General Hugh Mercer bayoneted at Princeton while George Washington rallies the Continental Army, at Yale.
The Death of General Wolfe
The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 oil painting by Benjamin West showing the mortally wounded general at his 1759 victory over the French outside Quebec.
The Death of Jane McCrea
The Death of Jane McCrea is an 1804 oil painting by John Vanderlyn depicting the 1777 killing of Jane McCrea, held at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
The Death of Major Peirson
The Death of Major Peirson is an 1783 oil painting by John Singleton Copley showing Major Francis Peirson's death at the Battle of Jersey, held by the Tate Gallery.
The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat) is Jacques-Louis David's 1793 oil painting of the revolutionary journalist Marat stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday; the Brussels original turned him into a martyred, Pietà-like icon of the Revolution.
The Death of Socrates
The Death of Socrates (La Mort de Socrate) is Jacques-Louis David's 1787 neoclassical oil painting, 129.5 x 196.2 cm, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing Socrates reaching for hemlock per Plato's Phaedo, commissioned by Trudaine and shown at the 1787 Salon.
The Decisive Moment
The decisive moment is a photography concept from Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1952 book Images à la Sauvette, describing when an event's significance and a precise arrangement of forms meet in a single frame.
The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is Judy Chicago's 1974–1979 feminist art installation: a triangular table with 39 place settings and 999 Heritage Floor names honoring 1,038 women, permanently at the Brooklyn Museum since 2007.
The Disasters of War
The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) is Goya's series of 82 etchings made 1810–1820 on the Peninsular War, Madrid famine and post-war repression; 80 were published posthumously by the San Fernando Academy in 1863.
The Dove
The Dove is a 1964 collage by the American artist Romare Bearden showing a busy Harlem street scene, with a small dove perched on a ledge above.
The Dream (The Bed)
El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), is Frida Kahlo's 1940 oil-on-canvas self-portrait of her sleeping four-poster bed in the clouds with a firecracker-wired Judas cartonería skeleton above; it set the female-artist auction record at $54.66 million in 2025.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (蛸と海女)
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (Tako to ama, 蛸と海女) is an 1814 woodblock shunga print by Hokusai from Kinoe no Komatsu, showing an ama diver with two octopuses, famous for Picasso's response and its tentacle-erotica legacy.
The Dugout
The Dugout (Bottom of the Ninth), Norman Rockwell's 1948 Saturday Evening Post cover painting of dejected Chicago Cubs after a Braves doubleheader, now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Dying Inayat Khan
The Dying Inayat Khan is a Mughal miniature painting of about 1618-19 showing the courtier 'Inayat Khan emaciated on his deathbed, made for Emperor Jahangir.
The Elephants
The Elephants (Los elefantes) is Salvador Dalí's 1948 oil on canvas of two spindly-legged elephants carrying Bernini-inspired obelisks; catalogued as Project for 'As You Like It' (P 640), held in a private collection.
The Enchanted Owl
The Enchanted Owl is a 1960 stonecut print by the Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak of Kinngait, showing a fantastical owl and printed in an edition of 50.
The End of the Trail
The End of the Trail is a sculpture by James Earle Fraser depicting an exhausted Native American warrior slumped on a windblown horse, first modeled in 1894.
The Epic of American Civilization
The Epic of American Civilization is a mural cycle of 24 fresco panels by José Clemente Orozco, painted 1932–1934 in Baker Library at Dartmouth College.
The Epic of the Mexican People
The Epic of the Mexican People (Epopeya del pueblo mexicano) is a monumental fresco cycle by Diego Rivera, painted between 1929 and 1935 in Mexico City's National Palace.
The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
The Execution of Emperor Maximilian is a series of paintings and a lithograph made by Édouard Manet between 1867 and 1869, depicting Maximilian's 1867 execution in Mexico.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Paul Delaroche's 1833 oil painting (246 × 297 cm, National Gallery NG1909), shows the blindfolded nine-day queen groping for the block before her 1554 beheading; a Paris Salon 1834 sensation, lost after the 1928 Thames flood, rediscovered in 1973.
The Factory
The Factory, also known as Andy Warhol's Factory, was Andy Warhol's New York City studio, occupying four Manhattan sites between 1963 and 1987 and named for its assembly-line production methods.
The Family of Charles IV
The Family of Charles IV (La familia de Carlos IV) is an 1800 oil-on-canvas group portrait by Francisco de Goya of the Spanish royal family of King Charles IV.
The Feast in the House of Levi
The Feast in the House of Levi (Convito in casa di Levi) is a 1573 monumental oil painting by Paolo Veronese, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.
The Feast of Sada
The Feast of Sada is a Persian miniature attributed to Sultan Muhammad, painted around 1525 in Tabriz, showing the mythical king Hushang's discovery of fire.
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi) is an 1833–34 series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige depicting the post stations of the Tōkaidō highway.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire (1839) is J.M.W. Turner's oil painting of HMS Temeraire, Trafalgar veteran, towed by steam tug to Rotherhithe for breaking up, National Gallery NG524, voted Britain's greatest painting in 2005.