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The Son of Man
The Son of Man (Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 oil painting by the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte, showing a green apple hovering before a bowler-hatted man's face.
The Sphere
The Sphere (Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y., Koenig Sphere) is Fritz Koenig's 25-foot bronze sculpture from the World Trade Center plaza, damaged but largely intact on 9/11, in Battery Park from 2002 and Liberty Park since 2017; distinct from the Las Vegas Sphere venue.
The Spirit of '76
The Spirit of '76 is an oil painting by American artist Archibald Willard, first exhibited as Yankee Doodle at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
The Staircase Group
The Staircase Group is a life-size 1795 double portrait by Charles Willson Peale showing his sons Raphaelle and Titian Ramsay Peale ascending a staircase in trompe l'oeil illusion.
The Starry Night
The Starry Night (De sterrennacht), Vincent van Gogh's June 1889 oil painting of a swirling night sky over Saint-Rémy, made at the Saint-Paul asylum; held at MoMA, New York, since 1941.
The Steerage
The Steerage is a 1907 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz showing crowded steerage-class passengers aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II, widely regarded as his signature, first modernist work.
The Stone Breakers
The Stone Breakers (Les Casseurs de pierres) is an 1849 painting by Gustave Courbet showing two poor laborers breaking stones; a founding work of Realism destroyed in Dresden in 1945.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee) is Rembrandt's 1633 oil on canvas, 160 x 128 cm, his only painted seascape, bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1898 and stolen unsolved from her Boston museum on 18 March 1990.
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale (El suicidio de Dorothy Hale) is a 1938–1939 painting by Frida Kahlo showing socialite Dorothy Hale's fatal fall, held by the Phoenix Art Museum.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a 1955 photobook pairing Roy DeCarava's photographs of daily life in Harlem with a fictional narrative by Langston Hughes.
The Terror of War
The Terror of War, also called Napalm Girl, is Nick Ut's June 8, 1972 Associated Press photograph of Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm strike near Trang Bang, Vietnam; it won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize and World Press Photo of the Year, and its authorship is now disputed.
The Tetons and the Snake River
The Tetons and the Snake River is a 1942 black-and-white photograph by Ansel Adams showing the Snake River winding below the Teton Range in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
The Thinker
The Thinker (Le Penseur): Rodin bronze of a seated nude man, conceived 1880 for The Gates of Hell as The Poet, enlarged 1904, cast worldwide, edition capped at twelve.
The Third of May 1808
The Third of May 1808 (El 3 de mayo en Madrid o "Los fusilamientos") is Goya's 1814 oil on canvas, 268 x 347 cm, in the Museo del Prado (P000749), depicting the French firing-squad reprisals on the Príncipe Pío hill after the Dos de Mayo uprising.
The Three Graces (Canova)
The Three Graces is a marble sculptural group by Antonio Canova depicting the three daughters of Zeus embracing in a circle, carved in two versions in Rome from 1812.
The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)
The Tower of Babel (Turmbau zu Babel) refers to two Pieter Bruegel the Elder panels: the signed 1563 Vienna version (KHM, 114.3 × 155.1 cm) and the smaller Rotterdam version (Boijmans, c. 1568), distinguished by scale, rock core, and Nimrod figures.
The Treachery of Images
The Treachery of Images (La Trahison des images), also known as Ceci n'est pas une pipe, is René Magritte's 1929 oil painting of a pipe captioned "This is not a pipe", held at LACMA since 1978 and central to debates on representation.
The Triumph of Death
The Triumph of Death is an oil-on-panel allegory by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1562-1563, Prado, Madrid, 117 x 162 cm) showing Death's skeleton army destroying all social classes; distinct from Bosch's apocalypses by its absence of any Last Judgment or salvation.
The Triumph of the Church
The Triumph of the Church (El triunfo de la Iglesia) is an allegorical painting by Cristóbal de Villalpando in Mexico City Cathedral's sacristy, painted in the mid-1680s.
The Twelve Beauties of Prince Yong
The Twelve Beauties of Prince Yong, also called the Yinzhen Beauty Paintings (十二美人图), is a set of twelve large silk paintings made for the future Yongzheng Emperor.
The Two Crowns
The Two Crowns is Sir Frank Dicksee's 1900 oil painting (Tate Britain, NO1839) of a medieval king in a golden crown gazing at Christ's crown of thorns; also the title of a 1628 Jacques Callot etching.
The Two Fridas
The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas) is Frida Kahlo's 1939 double self-portrait, 173.5 × 173 cm, painted during her divorce from Diego Rivera, first shown at the 1940 International Surrealist Exhibition, and held by the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.
The Two Ways of Life
The Two Ways of Life is an 1857 composite photograph by Oscar Gustav Rejlander combining more than thirty negatives into a moral allegory of vice and virtue.
The Unicorn in Captivity
The Unicorn in Captivity, also titled The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, is the final panel of the seven Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries (1495–1505) at The Met Cloisters, showing a collared unicorn chained to a pomegranate tree.
The Upper Room
The Upper Room is a Chris Ofili installation of thirteen monkey paintings in a walnut room designed with David Adjaye, bought by the Tate in 2005.
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
The Valley of the Shadow of Death is an 1855 photograph by Roger Fenton showing a Crimean ravine littered with Russian cannonballs, one of the most famous early images of war.
The Victories in the Pacification of the Dzungars and Muslims
The Victories in the Pacification of the Dzungars and Muslims is a set of sixteen copperplate engravings commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor to commemorate his Qing conquests of 1755 to 1759 in Xinjiang.
The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted
The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted is a five-panel Futurist painting of New York by Joseph Stella, painted 1920–22 and held by the Newark Museum.
The Weeping Woman
Part of a series of approximately 60 images, The Weeping Woman (Femme en pleurs) is a 1937 oil painting by Picasso, created in Paris following his mural Guernica, featuring Dora Maar.
The Wizard of Id
The Wizard of Id is a syndicated American comic strip set in the medieval kingdom of Id, created in 1964 by writer Johnny Hart and artist Brant Parker, now drawn by Mason Mastroianni.