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The Poolrooms
The Poolrooms, also known as Poolcore, are a liminal-space aesthetic of endless white-tiled rooms flooded with shallow water, adopted by the Backrooms fandom as Level 37.
The Poppy Field near Argenteuil
The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (Les Coquelicots) is Claude Monet's 1873 oil-on-canvas Impressionist landscape of a red poppy meadow with Camille and Jean Monet, shown at the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition and held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters (De Aardappeleters) is an 1885 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh of five peasants sharing an evening meal of potatoes, held in Amsterdam.
The Power of Music
The Power of Music is an 1847 genre painting by William Sidney Mount showing a Black laborer listening to fiddlers from outside a Long Island barn.
The Problem We All Live With
The Problem We All Live With is Norman Rockwell's 1963 oil painting of six-year-old Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. marshals into New Orleans's William Frantz Elementary on November 14, 1960, published in Look, January 14, 1964.
The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour
The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (Qianlong Nanxun Tu, 乾隆南巡图) is a set of twelve handscrolls painted by Xu Yang documenting the Qing emperor's first 1751 southern tour.
The Raft of the Medusa
The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) is Géricault's monumental 1818–19 oil painting of the 1816 Méduse shipwreck, shown at the 1819 Salon as Scène de naufrage and held by the Louvre since 1824.
The Rape of Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina (Ratto di Proserpina) is a 1621–1622 Baroque marble group by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, showing Pluto abducting Proserpina, famous for fingers sinking into marble flesh, now in Rome's Galleria Borghese.
The Rape of the Sabine Women
The Rape of the Sabine Women (Italian: Ratto delle Sabine) is a marble sculpture group by Giambologna, standing since 1582 under the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.
The Red Boy
The Red Boy: nickname shared by two famous child portraits, Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of Charles William Lambton (1825, National Gallery, London) and Goya's Don Manuel Osorio (Metropolitan Museum), both named for their dominant red color.
The Refusal of Time
The Refusal of Time is a 2012 five-channel video installation by William Kentridge, first shown at dOCUMENTA (13), that examines how time has been measured and standardized.
The Reluctant Bride
The Reluctant Bride (La Fiancée hésitante), also titled Un mariage de raison, is Auguste Toulmouche's 1866 oil painting of an angry bride at an arranged marriage, shown at the 1866 Salon, privately held, and revived as a TikTok feminist meme in 2023.
The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)
Rembrandt's late oil painting (c. 1668, 262 x 205 cm, State Hermitage, St Petersburg) of the father embracing the kneeling prodigal son from Luke 15; acquired for Catherine the Great, never lent.
The Riverbank
The Riverbank (溪岸图) is a monumental tenth-century Chinese hanging scroll attributed to the Southern Tang master Dong Yuan and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1997.
The Road from Sèvres
The Road from Sèvres (La route, vue du chemin de Sèvres) is an 1873 oil by Alfred Sisley at the Musée d'Orsay (RF 2079), now retitled Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes; related is Corot's Louvre Le chemin de Sèvres, stolen in 1998 and never recovered.
The Roaring Lion
The Roaring Lion is a 1941 portrait photograph of Winston Churchill by Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh, taken in Ottawa moments after Karsh removed his cigar.
The Rocketeer (character)
The Rocketeer (Cliff Secord) is a 1938 rocket-pack hero created by Dave Stevens, first appearing in Starslayer #2 (1982), published by Pacific, Eclipse, Comico, Dark Horse, and IDW, and adapted in Disney's 1991 film.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 oil painting by Albert Bierstadt depicting the Wind River Range in Wyoming, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Runaway (painting)
The Runaway (painting): Norman Rockwell's 1958 oil on canvas Saturday Evening Post cover of a boy at a diner counter beside a state trooper; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge; distinct from works by Munnings, McCubbin, and N.C. Wyeth of the same title.
The School of Athens
The School of Athens (Scuola di Atene) is Raphael's 1509–1511 fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, depicting Plato, Aristotle, and about 58 ancient philosophers under Bramante-inspired architecture.
The Scream
The Scream (Skrik) is a motif created by Edvard Munch in several versions between 1893 and about 1910, showing a figure on a bridge beneath a blood-red sky.
The Seated
The Seated is a group of four bronze female figures by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, installed in 2019 in niches on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's facade.
The Second of May 1808
The Second of May 1808, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes, is an 1814 oil painting by Francisco de Goya depicting Madrid's uprising against Napoleon's cavalry.
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is an oil painting in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, long attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, whose authorship the BRCP disputes.
The Sin (Lossow)
The Sin (Die Versündigung) is an 1880 oil painting by German genre painter Heinrich Lossow showing a cleric and a nun-like woman through an iron gate; 55 x 37 cm, whereabouts unknown, often linked to the 1501 Banquet of Chestnuts.
The Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo
The Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo (Rokuso Setchiku-zu, 六祖截竹図) is a 13th-century hanging scroll in ink on paper by Southern Song painter Liang Kai, showing Chan patriarch Huineng cutting bamboo.
The Sixth Patriarch Tearing the Sutras
The Sixth Patriarch Tearing the Sutras (六祖撕经图, Rokuso Hakkyō) is a 13th-century Southern Song ink scroll attributed to Liang Kai, showing the Chan patriarch Huineng tearing up a sutra.
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō (木曽街道六十九次) is a Japanese ukiyo-e print series of the Nakasendō's post stations, designed by Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige.
The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon Coming On) is J. M. W. Turner's 1840 oil painting of a slaver jettisoning captives in a storm, long linked to the 1781 Zong massacre, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and reinterpreted by Sam Smiles's 2026 study.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos), Goya's 1799 etching and aquatint, plate 43 of Los Caprichos, showing the sleeping artist beset by owls, bats, and a lynx.