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Butsuga
Butsuga (仏画) is the Japanese term for Buddhist painting, in the narrow sense images of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and mandalas, and broadly any painting on a Buddhist subject.
Bwa plank masks
Bwa plank masks, called nwantantay in the Bwa language, are tall painted wooden masks worn by dancers of the Bwa peoples of Burkina Faso to represent flying spirits.
Byeri
Byeri, also written bieri, was the Fang ancestor-veneration association of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon, centered on bark reliquary boxes guarded by carved wooden figures.
Byōbu-e
Byōbu-e (屏風絵) is the Japanese art of painting on multi-panel folding screens, which served as windbreaks and room dividers; its 16th-century golden age featured bright colors on gold.
Byōdō-in Hōō-dō Amida statue
The Byōdō-in Hōō-dō Amida statue (阿弥陀如来坐像, Seated Amida Nyorai) is a National Treasure statue of Amida Buddha at Byōdō-in temple in Uji, Japan, completed in 1053 by Jōchō.
Byōdō-in phoenixes
The Byōdō-in phoenixes (鳳凰像) are a pair of 11th-century gilded cast-bronze phoenix statues made for the roof of Byōdō-in temple's Phoenix Hall in Uji, Kyoto, Japan.
Byzantine art
Byzantine art: art of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, 4th–15th century, centered on Constantinople; mosaics, icons, Hagia Sophia, Iconoclasm, cross-in-square churches, and influence on Slavic, Islamic, and Western art.
Byzantine cloisonné enamel
Byzantine cloisonné enamel is the technique of decorating gold objects with colored glass fused into wire cells, perfected by Byzantine workshops from the 6th to the 12th century.
Byzantine fresco painting
Byzantine fresco painting is the Byzantine Empire's wall-painting tradition, applying lime-bound pigments to wet plaster as a cheaper church-decoration alternative to mosaic, most popular in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Byzantine goldsmithing and cloisonné reliquary work
Byzantine goldsmithing and cloisonné reliquary work is a gold-and-enamel tradition centered on reliquaries, especially the staurotheke for True Cross fragments, the empire's most important metalwork.
Byzantine ivory carving
Byzantine ivory carving is the relief sculpture of the Eastern Roman Empire in elephant ivory, producing diptychs, icons, triptychs, and caskets from Late Antiquity through the medieval period.
Byzantine marble carving
Byzantine marble carving is the tradition of sculpting marble for architectural, liturgical, and funerary use in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to the fifteenth century.
Byzantine textiles
Byzantine textiles are the woven fabrics of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, produced from the 4th century onward in linen, wool, and silk, including imperial purple silks.
C-shaped jade dragon
The C-shaped jade dragon (C形玉龙) is a coiled jade dragon of the Neolithic Hongshan culture of northeastern China, often called the "first dragon of China."
C. F. A. Voysey
C. F. A. Voysey, born Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, was a British architect and designer who built about fifty houses and was celebrated for his wallpapers and textiles.
Cable & Deadpool
Cable & Deadpool: Marvel Comics ongoing team-up comic series (2004-2008, 50 issues) pairing Cable and Deadpool, written by Fabian Nicieza; first arc If Looks Could Kill; canceled at #50 for new solo series.
CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte)
CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte, Collective of Art Actions) was a Chilean art group, formed in 1979, that staged public art actions against the Pinochet dictatorship.
Cadency
Cadency, or marks of cadency (brisures), is the heraldic practice of differencing arms to show birth order of male heirs; the English label-crescent-mullet system is attributed to John Writhe around 1500, enforced strictly in Scotland, optional in England, and unused in American tradition.
Cadillac Ranch
Cadillac Ranch is a 1974 public art installation near Amarillo, Texas, where the Ant Farm collective, funded by Stanley Marsh 3, buried ten Cadillacs (1949–1963) nose-first along Route 66 to trace the tail fin's rise and fall; visitors freely spray-paint the cars.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night (Terrace of a Café at Night, Place du Forum) is Vincent van Gogh's September 1888 oil painting of a gas-lit Arles café terrace under a starry sky, painted on site at night without black, held at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡国强), born 1957 in Quanzhou, China, and based in New York since 1995, is a contemporary artist known for gunpowder drawings and explosion events, including the 2008 Beijing Olympics fireworks.
Cai Wenji Returns to Han
Cai Wenji Returns to Han (文姬归汉, Wenji gui Han) is a recurring subject of Chinese narrative painting, depicting the poet Cai Yan's return from twelve years of Xiongnu captivity.
Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal: annual ALA/ALSC award, established 1937, first given 1938, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children; distinct from the Newbery, which honors writing.
Calibri
Calibri is a humanist sans serif typeface by Lucas de Groot, published 2007 in Microsoft's ClearType collection and the Office default until Aptos replaced it in 2023–2024; Carlito is its free metric-compatible clone.
California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a private arts university in Valencia, California, founded 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney via merger of Chouinard Art Institute and LA Conservatory of Music; opened 1970; six schools, WSCUC-accredited, tuition $62,954/year (2026-27).
Calotype
The Calotype is an early photographic process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in England in 1840 and patented in 1841, serving as the forerunner of modern photographic methods.
Calum Harper
Calum Harper (born 2002, Gloucester) is a British model and TikTok content creator based in New York, known for Gucci and Hermès runway walks, Karl Lagerfeld and Tommy Hilfiger campaigns, a Dior contract, and a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Watterson's comic strip (1985-1995, Universal Press Syndicate) about six-year-old Calvin and Hobbes, his stuffed tiger alive only to him; named for philosophers, refused all merchandising.
Cameo (carving)
Cameo (carving): a miniature relief carved in layered hardstone such as sardonyx or agate, or in shell, raised against a contrasting ground; the converse of the intaglio, perfected in Hellenistic Greece and peaking under Augustus.
Camera Work
Camera Work was a quarterly photographic journal published in New York by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917, the principal platform of the Photo-Secession and among the first American periodicals to treat photography as fine art.