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Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel (1864–1943), French sculptor, Rodin's assistant, model, and lover; creator of Sakuntala, The Waltz, and The Age of Maturity; confined from 1913 until her death in 1943.
Camille Doncieux
Camille-Léonie Doncieux (1847–1879), French artists' model and first wife of Claude Monet; posed for about 50 Monet canvases including The Woman in the Green Dress, Woman with a Parasol, La Japonaise, and Camille on Her Deathbed.
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Danish-French Impressionist painter born on Saint Thomas, called the father of Impressionism; the only artist in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and mentor to Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin.
Camille Summers-Valli
Camille Summers-Valli (born 1991, Bangkok) is a French-Australian photographer and director known for Black Mesa at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014, the documentary Big Mountain, fashion films for Burberry and Vogue, the UK MVA-winning 2023 music videos, and the 2026 short Untitled Woman.
Campbell's Soup Cans
Campbell's Soup Cans: Andy Warhol's 1962 series of 32 hand-painted canvases, one per Campbell's soup variety, debuted at Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles; a founding Pop Art work held by MoMA since 1996.
Can't Help Myself (Sun Yuan and Peng Yu)
Can't Help Myself (难自禁) is a 2016 robotic installation by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, commissioned by the Guggenheim for Tales of Our Time: a Kuka robot arm endlessly sweeps red cellulose-ether liquid inside a boundary, shown at the 2019 Venice Biennale, switched off in 2019, and viral on TikTok in 2021.
Canaletto
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768), Venetian veduta painter of Venice, Rome, and London views; trained as a scene painter, patronized via Joseph Smith, linked to the camera obscura, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1765.
Candid photography
Candid photography captures subjects unposed and unaware of the camera, overlapping with street and documentary photography. Key facts: Kodak #1 (1888) enabled it, Paul Strand pioneered candid street work, Cartier-Bresson defined the classic style, and studies show candids read as more genuine than posed photos.
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer, born 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format color photographs of empty institutional interiors such as libraries, museums, and theaters.
Cândido Portinari
Cândido Portinari, born Candido Torquato Portinari, was a Brazilian painter and muralist best known for the War and Peace panels at the United Nations headquarters.
Capilla del Rosario (Puebla)
The Capilla del Rosario is a 17th-century Baroque chapel annexed to the Templo de Santo Domingo in Puebla, Mexico, begun in 1650 and covered almost entirely in gold.
Capitoline Brutus
The Capitoline Brutus is a bronze portrait head of a bearded man in Rome's Capitoline Museums, dated to the 4th–3rd century BC and long identified, without foundation, as Lucius Junius Brutus.
Capitoline Venus
The Capitoline Venus (Venere Capitolina) is a slightly larger-than-life Roman marble statue of the nude goddess Venus in the Capitoline Museums, Rome, reworking Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos.
Capitoline Wolf
The Capitoline Wolf (Lupa Capitolina) is a 75 cm bronze she-wolf in Rome's Capitoline Museums, with Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century; long dated to the 5th century BC, radiocarbon tests point to a medieval origin.
Captain Boomerang
Captain Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness) is a DC Comics Australian supervillain, a Flash Rogues member and Suicide Squad recruit, created by Broome and Infantino, debuting in Flash #117 (1960), played by Jai Courtney in film.
Captain Britain
Captain Britain is a Marvel Comics superhero created in 1976 for Captain Britain Weekly, the first comic made for the British market by Marvel. Brian Braddock, empowered by Merlyn, later joined Excalibur and the multiversal Captain Britain Corps.
Caravaggio
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian Baroque painter who trained in Milan and worked in Rome. He is known for painting from posed models and his intense use of light.
Caravaggisti
Caravaggisti (caravaggisti, tenebrosi) were 17th-century European painters imitating Caravaggio's naturalism, tenebrism, and close-up compositions; term coined early 20th century, peaked after 1610, waned by mid-century.
Carbon print
A carbon print is a photographic print made from pigment suspended in gelatin rather than silver salts, introduced by Alphonse-Louis Poitevin in 1855 and perfected by Joseph Wilson Swan in 1864.
Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) was a Dutch painter and Rembrandt pupil who worked in Delft, best known for The Goldfinch; he died in the 1654 Delft gunpowder explosion.
Caricature
Caricature (Italian caricatura, "loaded portrait") is portrait art mocking a subject by exaggerating facial or bodily features for satire. Originated with the Carracci in 16th-century Italy; flourished in Georgian England; basis of the political cartoon.
Carl Andre
Carl Andre (1935–2024) was an American minimalist sculptor and poet known for floor pieces of unmodified industrial materials, such as metal plates and bricks, arranged for viewers to walk on.
Carl Barks
Carl Barks (1901–2000), the anonymous 'Good Duck Artist', wrote and drew over 500 Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Disney comics, created Scrooge McDuck and Duckburg, and was later honored as a Disney Legend.
Carl McCunn
Carl McCunn (1947–1981), American wildlife photographer stranded at a remote Brooks Range lake in Alaska in 1981 after never confirming his pickup flight; signaled 'all OK' to a passing plane, ran out of food, and died by suicide, found February 1982.
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), American writer, New York Times music and dance critic, novelist of Nigger Heaven (1926), and Gertrude Stein's literary executor; from 1932 he made over 15,000 portraits of Harlem Renaissance and other cultural figures.
Carle Van Loo
Carle Van Loo, born Charles-André Vanloo (1705–1765), was a French history and genre painter of a family of painters, named Premier peintre du roi in 1762.
Carleton Watkins
Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was an American landscape photographer of the American West, best known for his 18-by-22-inch mammoth-plate photographs of Yosemite Valley, which helped persuade Congress and Lincoln to preserve the valley in 1864.
Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà (1881–1966) was an Italian painter and writer who co-founded Futurism and, with Giorgio de Chirico, Metaphysical Painting, later painting austere landscapes and still lifes.
Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter, born in Venice around 1430–1435 and died in Ascoli Piceno in 1494 or 1495, who made signed altarpieces in tempera and gold in the Marche.
Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi (1902-1975), Turin-born Italian painter, physician, writer, and anti-fascist; author of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, member of the Six Painters of Turin, confined in Lucania 1935-36, senator 1963-1972.