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Tra Kieu pedestal
The Trà Kiệu pedestal (đài thờ Trà Kiệu) is a colossal carved sandstone pedestal-shrine from the ancient Cham site of Trà Kiệu in central Vietnam, now in the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture.
Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin, born 1963 in Croydon, is a British YBA artist known for confessional works My Bed and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, a 1999 Turner Prize shortlisting, a damehood, and the 2026 Tate Modern retrospective A Second Life.
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt (born 1960) is an Australian photographer and filmmaker whose staged series explore race, gender, and childhood trauma; she represented Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Tragedy by the Sea
Tragedy by the Sea, also called Cruel Waves, is John L. Gaunt Jr.'s 1954 Hermosa Beach photograph of John and Lillian McDonald after their 19-month-old son drowned; it won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Trần Văn Cẩn
Trần Văn Cẩn is a Vietnamese painter who worked across oil, silk, lacquer, and woodcut; he is remembered as one of the four masters of modern Vietnamese art.
Trans-Siberian Railway Egg
The Trans-Siberian Railway Egg is a 1900 Imperial Fabergé Easter egg given by Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, commemorating the nearly completed Trans-Siberian Railway with a removable, wind-up miniature train.
Transfiguration (Raphael)
The Transfiguration (1516-1520) is Raphael's last painting, an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, combining Christ's transfiguration with the healing of a possessed boy; it now hangs in the Pinacoteca Vaticana.
Transgressive art
Transgressive art deliberately violates moral, social, or aesthetic boundaries of its era; key examples include Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and the 1990 Mapplethorpe museum trial, with censorship as its recurring counterpart.
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (谿山行旅图) is a monumental hanging scroll in ink and light color on silk by the Song painter Fan Kuan, dated around 1000.
Travels in the Interior of North America Plates
The Travels in the Interior of North America plates are 81 aquatint prints Karl Bodmer made from 1834 to 1843 to illustrate Prince Maximilian's Missouri River journey.
Treasure of Guarrazar
The Treasure of Guarrazar is a hoard of seventh-century Visigothic votive crowns and gold crosses unearthed near Toledo, Spain, between 1858 and 1861, with King Recceswinth's crown as its most famous piece.
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a Book of Hours begun around 1411 for Jean de Berry by the Limbourg brothers and finished by Jean Colombe in the 1480s, is kept at the Musée Condé, Chantilly, famous for its twelve calendar miniatures.
Trevor Henderson
Trevor Henderson, born 1986, is a Toronto-based Canadian illustrator, writer, and creature concept artist, OCADU-trained, creator of viral internet horror creatures Siren Head, Cartoon Cat, and Long Horse, author of Scholastic's Scarewaves, subject of a Warner Bros. Siren Head film with Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield.
Trinity (Andrei Rublev)
Trinity (Andrei Rublev), or Hospitality of Abraham, is a 15th-century Russian icon. It depicts three angelic visitors to Abraham and is considered the acme of Russian art.
Triple Self-Portrait
Triple Self-Portrait is a 1959 oil painting by Norman Rockwell that shows him three times: at the easel, in the mirror, and on the canvas; it was the Saturday Evening Post cover for February 1960.
Triptych
Triptych: a three-panel artwork, usually a hinged central panel with two wings, from Greek "three-fold." Rooted in early Christian and Byzantine art, standard for medieval altarpieces, later adopted by Bacon, Rothko, and Haring.
Triquetra
Triquetra (trinity knot): a knot of three interlaced arcs from Latin triquetrus 'three-cornered'. Found on Greek and Sicilian coins, Insular manuscripts like the Book of Kells, Viking Age Gotland stones, and Sicilian arms; no ancient meaning is recorded.
Trompe-l'œil
Trompe-l'œil (French, "deceive the eye") is hyper-realistic painting that makes flat surfaces look three-dimensional, from Zeuxis and Roman frescoes through Baroque quadratura to Schiaparelli fashion and contemporary architecture.
Tropico 7
Tropico 7 (Tropico series, seventh main entry) is a strategy-management-government sim by Gaming Minds Studios and Kalypso Media, announced at Gamescom 2025, releasing January 28, 2027 on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 with a Political Matrix, terraforming, and reworked military system.
Trundholm Sun Chariot
The Trundholm Sun Chariot (Danish: Solvognen) is a Nordic Bronze Age image of a horse pulling a gilded sun disc, found in Denmark in 1902.
Tsarevich Egg
The Tsarevich Egg is a 1912 Imperial Fabergé egg of lapis lazuli, given by Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra at Easter 1912 for their heir Alexei's eighth birthday.
Tseng Kwong Chi
Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智; 1950–1990), also known as Joseph Tseng, was a Hong Kong-born photographer whose East Meets West series shows him in a Mao suit at famous landmarks worldwide.
Tsuba
Tsuba (鍔) is the hand guard of a Japanese sword, a flat plate protecting the hand that became a highly valued metal art widely collected today.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, also known as Taiso Yoshitoshi, was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist (1839–1892), often described as the last great master of the ukiyo-e tradition.
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent
The tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent (Kanuni Sultan Süleyman tuğrası) is the calligraphic imperial monogram of Ottoman sultan Suleiman I, applied to every royal edict of his reign.
Tuhua Jianwen Zhi
Tuhua Jianwen Zhi (图画见闻志, Experiences in Painting) is a six-juan history and theory of Chinese painting by Northern Song critic Guo Ruoxu, completed in 1074, covering painters from 841 onward.
Tulip Period art
Tulip Period art (Lâle Devri sanatı) is Ottoman art and architecture of 1718–1730 under Ahmed III, known for a new floral style and Levni's miniatures.
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c. 1938 – 2001) was a Pintupi artist of the Western Desert who painted for Papunya Tula and was known for his Spear Straightening paintings.
Turner Prize
Turner Prize, annual British contemporary art award founded in 1984 by Tate's Patrons of New Art and named for J. M. W. Turner; given for an outstanding exhibition by an artist born or working in Britain, with a four-artist shortlist, £25,000 winner's purse, and a history of controversy.
Turquoise (color)
Turquoise (color): a blue-green color named after the turquoise gemstone, from French turqueise "Turkish stone"; color name attested 1853, CSS value #40E0D0, blue from copper and green from iron in the mineral.