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Tim Hetherington

Tim Hetherington (Timothy Alistair Hetherington, 1970–2011) was a British photojournalist and filmmaker who co-directed the Oscar-nominated war documentary Restrepo and was killed in Misrata, Libya, in 2011.

Timeline of photography technology

The Timeline of photography technology traces the sequence of inventions that made images by light, from Nicéphore Niépce's first permanent photograph in 1826 to modern digital image sensors.

Times New Roman

Times New Roman, also sold by Linotype as Times Roman, is a 1932 transitional serif designed by Victor Lardent under Stanley Morison for The Times of London, later the Microsoft Word default serif.

Timur Ruby

The Timur Ruby is a 352.5-carat red spinel in the British Royal Collection, taken from the Lahore Treasury in 1849 and presented to Queen Victoria in 1851.

Timurid architectural mosaic faience of Samarqand

Timurid architectural mosaic faience of Samarqand is a tile technique where each pattern element is separately cut, fired, and set into plaster, used from 1370 to 1507.

Timurid art

Timurid art is the art and architecture produced under the Timurid dynasty, which ruled Iran and Central Asia from 1370 to about 1507 and is best known for manuscript painting and tile-faced architecture.

Timurid miniature painting

Timurid miniature painting is the illustrated manuscript art of the Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), produced in court workshops at Samarkand and Herat and often regarded as the apogee of Persian painting.

Tina Chow

Tina Chow (Bettina Louise Lutz, 1950–1992), Japanese-American model, jewelry designer, and style icon; married restaurateur Michael Chow, famed for minimalist 'minimal chic' style and quartz-and-bamboo jewelry.

Tina Kunakey

Tina Kunakey Di Vita, born 1997 in Toulouse, is a French model and actress of Togolese and Sicilian descent based in Paris, signed with IMG, Elite, and Next, and known for campaigns with Prada, Jacquemus, Victoria's Secret, and her 2018 marriage to Vincent Cassel.

Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti (Assunta Saltarini Modotti Mondini, 1896–1942), Italian-born photographer, actress, and communist activist; Edward Weston's student, model, and partner; key figure of modernist photography in 1920s Mexico City; deported 1930, died in Mexico City 1942.

Tincture (heraldry)

Tincture (heraldry), also called heraldic tinctures or heraldic colours: the metals (or, argent), colours (gules, azure, sable, vert, purpure) and furs (ermine, vair) of coats of arms, governed by the rule of tincture.

Tingatinga

Tingatinga is a Tanzanian school of painting founded in Dar es Salaam in 1968 by Edward Saidi Tingatinga, known for flat, bright colors and bold black outlines.

Tintoretto

Tintoretto, born Jacopo Robusti (1518 or 1519–1594), was a Venetian painter of the 16th century, known for dynamic compositions and his great cycle at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.

Tintype

Tintype (ferrotype, melainotype): a 19th-century direct-positive photograph made by the wet collodion process on black-lacquered iron, patented 1856–1857, cheap and fast, used for Civil War portraits and revived by contemporary artists on aluminum.

Tira de Tepechpan

The Tira de Tepechpan is a sixteenth-century Nahuatl pictorial annal on amate bark paper recording the parallel histories of Tepechpan and Tenochtitlan from 1298 through 1596, now held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Tish Weinstock

Tish Weinstock, London-based contributing beauty editor at British Vogue, i-D and Dazed alumna, author of How to Be a Goth (2024), goth model for Chloé and Vivienne Westwood, wife of Tom Guinness.

Tite Kubo (久保帯人)

Tite Kubo (久保帯人) is the Japanese manga artist who created Zombiepowder. and Bleach (serialized 2001-2016, Shogakukan Manga Award 2005), later returning with Burn the Witch, known for angular character design and sparse backgrounds.

Titian

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1488/1490–1576), Venetian Renaissance painter born in Pieve di Cadore; official painter to the Venetian Republic from 1516, court painter to Charles V and Philip II, master of colorito and the poesie mythological series.

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853–1919) was a Hungarian painter who began painting at about age 41 after working as a pharmacist, producing around 90 works including The Lonely Cedar.

Tiwanaku art

Tiwanaku art is the visual art of the pre-Columbian Tiwanaku polity near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, flourishing from about AD 500 to 1100 on ceramics, textiles, and stone.

Tiwanaku stone carving

Tiwanaku stone carving is the monumental stonework and sculpture produced at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, between roughly AD 500 and 1100, best known for the Gate of the Sun.

Tiwanaku textiles

Tiwanaku textiles are the woven cloths of the Tiwanaku state (about 500–1100), centered near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, including tapestry tunics and four-cornered hats bearing the staff deity of the Gateway of the Sun.

Tlaloc Monolith

The Tlaloc Monolith, also called the Piedra de Coatlinchán, is a colossal stone figure of the Mesoamerican rain god Tlaloc, moved to Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology in 1964.

To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (かつて神だった獣たちへ)

To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (かつて神だった獣たちへ, Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e) is a dark fantasy manga by Maybe, serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine 2014–2023 in 15 volumes, about the Beast Hunter Hank hunting his Incarnate comrades; adapted as a 12-episode 2019 MAPPA anime.

Tobias Frere-Jones

Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970) is an American typeface designer in New York, known for widely used typefaces including Interstate, Gotham, Whitney, and Retina, and founder of Frere-Jones Type.

Todd McFarlane

Todd McFarlane, born 1961 in Calgary, is a Canadian comic book artist and entrepreneur who created Spawn, co-created Venom at Marvel, and co-founded Image Comics in 1992, serving as its president.

Toledo steel

Toledo steel is the famed sword steel of Toledo, Spain, whose blades were considered Europe's best between the 15th and 17th centuries for temper and flexibility.

Tom Geismar

Tom Geismar, born Thomas H. Geismar in 1931, is an American graphic designer and founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar, known for abstract trademarks for Mobil, Chase Bank, and PBS.

Tom of Finland

Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) was a Finnish artist whose homoerotic leather-and-uniform drawings, first published in 1957 in Physique Pictorial, shaped gay male aesthetics; his Los Angeles foundation preserves over 2,000 original works.

Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts (1856–1931), English-born Australian painter of the Heidelberg School, known for Shearing the rams, Bailed up, the 1901 Big Picture, and proposing a national portrait gallery.