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Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was an English portrait painter who dominated British portraiture in the early nineteenth century and served as President of the Royal Academy.
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), German-born American editorial cartoonist at Harper's Weekly 1862-1886, called the Father of the American Cartoon; created the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Tammany tiger, and modern Santa Claus, and toppled Boss Tweed.
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff (born 1958) is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for series examining photography's genres, from passport-style portraits to enlarged star images and reworked internet photographs.
Thomas Sheraton
Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806) was an English furniture designer and author whose Drawing-Book of 1791–1793 defined the neoclassical furniture style that bears his name; he was a designer rather than a working cabinetmaker.
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, born 1954 in Geldern, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format series on city streets, museum visitors, and technology.
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully was an English-born American portrait painter based in Philadelphia, the leading romantic portraitist in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Thousand-Character Classic in Slender Gold Script
The Thousand-Character Classic in Slender Gold Script is a handscroll written by Emperor Huizong of Song in 1104, the standard reference for his Slender Gold calligraphy.
Three Beauties of the Present Day
Three Beauties of the Present Day (Tōji san bijin) is a 1793 color woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro showing three famous beauties of Edo, among his best-known works.
Three Flags
Three Flags is a 1958 painting by Jasper Johns showing three American flags on stacked canvases, each smaller, held by the Whitney Museum in New York.
Three Girls (Amrita Sher-Gil)
Three Girls, cataloged as Group of Three Girls, is a 1935 oil painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, her first after returning from Europe, held in New Delhi.
Three-point lighting
Three-point lighting (key-fill-back) is the standard subject-lighting setup in film, video, and photography: key at ~45 degrees sets exposure, fill softens shadows, back light separates subject from background.
Thunder (DC Comics)
Thunder (Anissa Pierce) is a DC Comics superheroine, eldest daughter of Black Lightning, created by Judd Winick and Tom Raney. Debuting in Outsiders #1 (2003), she controls her body density, generating shockwaves, and stars as Nafessa Williams's Thunder on The CW's Black Lightning.
Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit
Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit (Sanka hakuu, 山下白雨) is a polychrome woodblock print of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, published around 1830–32 in his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Thundra
Thundra is a Marvel Comics superheroine created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, first appearing in Fantastic Four #129 (December 1972) as a Frightful Four member from the matriarchal timeline Femizonia (Earth-715), famous for the 1973 Thing versus Thundra Shea Stadium duel and as mother of Lyra.
Tiamut
Tiamut the Communicator, the Dreaming Celestial, is a Marvel Comics cosmic being introduced in Eternals #18 (1977); in the MCU film Eternals (2021) he is the Celestial seed inside Earth whose Emergence Sersi turns to stone, creating Celestial Island, the adamantium source in Brave New World.
Tian Heng and His Five Hundred Followers
Tian Heng and His Five Hundred Followers (田横五百士) is a large 1930 oil painting by Xu Beihong depicting the ancient king Tian Heng's farewell to his followers.
Tibetan butter sculpture
Tibetan butter sculpture (Tibetan mar gyus, Chinese su youhua) is the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of sculpting yak butter into ritual offerings, displayed at Losar and Kumbum Monastery.
Tibetan gilt bronze sculpture
A Tibetan gilt bronze sculpture is a Buddhist devotional image made in Tibet from copper or brass, coated with gold by mercury gilding, and consecrated for veneration in monasteries.
Tibetan metal sculpture
Tibetan metal sculpture: bronze and brass Buddhist and Bon statuary made by lost-wax casting and repoussé, consecrated with sealed contents, studied non-destructively by neutron imaging.
Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman (1949–1999) was a Hungarian-born American graphic designer who founded the New York firm M&Co and served as founding editor of Benetton's Colors magazine, arguing design had a duty to social message.
Tie-dye
Tie-dye is a mechanical resist-dyeing technique that folds, ties, stitches, or clamps fabric before dyeing so bound areas resist color. Known as bandhani, shibori, and adire regionally, it dates back over a millennium and became a 1960s counterculture icon.
Tiffany glass
Tiffany glass is decorative glass made by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios from the late 1870s into the 1920s, known for iridescent windows and lamps.
Tiffany lamp
Tiffany lamp: leaded-glass shade on a bronze base made by Tiffany Studios, Louis Comfort Tiffany's New York firm (about 1898–1933). Art Nouveau floral and geometric designs, many by Clara Driscoll; originals now sell for six to seven figures.
Tiffany Yellow Diamond
The Tiffany Yellow Diamond is a 128.54-carat cushion-cut Fancy Yellow diamond, one of the largest ever found, discovered in South Africa in 1877 and owned by Tiffany & Co.
Tiger in Bamboo
Tiger in Bamboo (竹虎図) is an East Asian ink painting subject pairing a tiger with bamboo, often as half of a dragon-and-tiger pair symbolizing yin and yang.
Tillya Tepe crown
The Tillya Tepe crown is a collapsible gold crown from the first century CE, excavated in 1978 from the tomb of a nomadic woman at Tillya Tepe in northern Afghanistan.
Tilman Riemenschneider
Tilman Riemenschneider (ca. 1460–1531) was a German late Gothic woodcarver and sculptor in Würzburg, famed for unpainted limewood altarpieces at Münnerstadt, Rothenburg, and Creglingen, and later imprisoned in the 1525 Peasants' Revolt.
Tilsa Tsuchiya
Tilsa Tsuchiya Castillo was a Peruvian painter, one of the most significant of the twentieth century, who drew on Chavín, Nazca, and Inca cultures and died in Lima in 1984.
Tilted Arc
Tilted Arc is a 1981 Richard Serra steel sculpture in Manhattan's Federal Plaza, dismantled by the government in 1989 in a famous public art controversy.
Tim Buckley (comics)
Tim Buckley (comics) is the American webcomic creator of Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD), launched October 23, 2002; author of the infamous 2008 'Loss' strip, the CAD Animated Series, Winter-een-mas, and six-figure Kickstarters. Distinct from the musician, the painter born 1987, and Justice Timothy Buckley.