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David Salle
David Salle, born in 1952, is an American postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer known for composite paintings juxtaposing fragmented figures and magazine images.
David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger (David Teniers II, 1610–1690), Flemish genre painter of Antwerp and Brussels, son of David Teniers the Elder, court painter and curator to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, and publisher of the Theatrum Pictorium (1660).
David Vases
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white porcelain altar vases dated by inscription to 1351, held in the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection.
Davide Sorrenti
Davide Sorrenti (1976–1997) was an Italian-born photographer who documented 1990s New York youth culture, shooting for Interview and i-D before his death linked him to "heroin chic".
Dawn Ward (TV personality)
Dawn Ward (Dawn Louise Ward, née Burke, born 1973) is an English interior designer and reality TV personality, an original cast member of ITVBe's The Real Housewives of Cheshire (2015–2020), wife of ex-footballer Ashley Ward, based later in Dubai.
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh (born 1961, New Delhi) is an Indian artist whose practice centers on photography, book-making, and mobile museums of stackable wooden structures, winning the 2022 Hasselblad Award.
DC Compendium
DC Compendium is a line of softcover collected editions published by DC Comics since 2020. It gathers large runs of comic book issues in standard trim size.
DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, Warner Bros.' 2009 subsidiary managing DC Comics publishing and IP licensing across film, TV, games, and podcasts; brands DC Comics, Vertigo, MAD; film unit DC Studios (James Gunn's DCU reboot, 2023); passed to Skydance with Paramount's 2026 Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
DC Finest trade paperbacks
DC Finest is DC Comics' softcover trade paperback reprint line, launched late 2024, collecting classic stories chronologically in roughly 600-page, $39.99 volumes, DC's counterpart to Marvel's Epic Collections.
De Stijl
De Stijl was a Dutch art movement that developed around the journal of the same name, founded by Theo van Doesburg in Leiden in 1917. The circle included Piet Mondrian, Bart van.
Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool
Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool are paired 2025 Marvel/DC crossover one-shots starring Deadpool and Batman, the publishers' first collaboration since 2003's JLA/Avengers, with main stories by Zeb Wells/Greg Capullo and Grant Morrison/Dan Mora plus backup team-ups.
Deadshot
Deadshot, also known as Floyd Lawton, is a DC Comics marksman and hired assassin, a Batman villain from 1950 and a core Suicide Squad member.
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson (born 1979) is an American photographer and educator in Brooklyn, known for large-scale staged portraits of Black subjects; in 2020 she was the first photographer to win the Hugo Boss Prize.
Death (Marvel Comics)
Death, often called Mistress Death, is a fictional abstract entity in Marvel Comics who personifies death; her relationship with the lovesick Thanos drives cosmic epics like 1991's Infinity Gauntlet.
Death mask
Death mask: a plaster or wax cast of a deceased person's face, taken soon after death before features distort. Used for effigies, posthumous portraits, veneration, phrenology, and identification; known since ancient Egypt and Bronze Age Greece.
Death of Vincent van Gogh
Death of Vincent van Gogh: the Dutch painter, shot on 27 July 1890 near Auvers-sur-Oise, died 29 July at the Auberge Ravoux, aged 37. Long accepted as suicide; Naifeh and Smith's 2011 biography and a 2020 forensic reevaluation contest it.
Death's Head (Marvel Comics)
Death's Head is a robotic freelance peacekeeping agent created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, debuting in Marvel UK's Transformers #113 (May 1987). Secured for Marvel via the 'High Noon Tex' strip, he crossed into Doctor Who and the Marvel Universe, starred in a 1988 solo series, and spawned Death's Head II, 3.0, and V.
Deathstroke
Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) is a DC Comics mercenary and assassin created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in The New Teen Titans #2 (1980) as Deathstroke the Terminator, with superhuman abilities from an experimental military process.
Deborah Turbeville
Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013) was an American photographer who reshaped 1970s fashion imagery with dreamlike, melancholic pictures made from soft focus and photocollage, best known for the controversial 1975 Vogue work Bathhouse.
Deborah Willis (photographer)
Deborah Willis, born 1948 in Philadelphia, is an American photographer, historian of photography, and curator; her book Reflections in Black (2000) was the first single-volume history of Black photographers.
Debre Berhan Selassie
Debre Berhan Selassie, "Mount of the Light of the Trinity," is an Ethiopian Orthodox church northeast of Gondar, famed for its murals and a ceiling of winged cherub heads.
Decadent movement
Decadent movement, also called Decadence: a late 19th-century Franco-British literary and artistic movement favoring beauty, artifice, and transgressive themes over morality, active in France from about 1870 to the Dreyfus Affair and in Britain in the 1890s.
Deccan carpets
Deccan carpets are knotted-pile carpets produced in the Deccan plateau of south-central India, chiefly under the Deccan sultanates from roughly the sixteenth century onward, serving local courts and export markets.
Deccan painting
Deccan painting, also called Deccani painting, is a form of Indian miniature painting made for the Deccan sultanates, chiefly from the late 16th to the mid-17th century.
Deep mapping
Deep mapping is a digital humanities method producing finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and its people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna, presented as a spatially embedded argument.
Deer of Nine Colors
The Deer of Nine Colors (九色鹿) is the hero of a jataka tale depicted in the best-known narrative mural of Mogao Cave 257 at Dunhuang, painted during the Northern Wei dynasty.
Deesis
The Deesis (Greek for "prayer") is a Byzantine icon composition with Christ at the center, flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist in intercession.
Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)
Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) is a 1983 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat commemorating Michael Stewart, a young Black artist who died after arrest by New York transit police.
Defenders (comics)
Defenders (comics): Marvel Comics superhero "non-team" debuting in Marvel Feature #1 (1971) with Doctor Strange, Namor, and the Hulk; distinct from the 2017 Netflix Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist team.
Degenerate art
Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst): Nazi label for modern art and the 1937 Munich mock exhibition of 650 confiscated works, initiated by Goebbels and led by Adolf Ziegler; over 16,000 works were confiscated, sold abroad, or burned, drawing over 3 million visitors.