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Central Javanese style
Central Javanese style is the Hindu-Buddhist temple architecture, sculpture, and relief art of Central Java from the 8th to 10th centuries, whose monuments include Borobudur and Prambanan.
Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins, a college of the University of the Arts London, was formed in 1989 and is known for its world-class fashion and design programs.
César Baldaccini
César Baldaccini, known as César, was a French sculptor and founding member of Nouveau Réalisme, best known for crushing cars into Compressions and for the César film award.
Cesar Legaspi
Cesar Legaspi (1917–1994) was a Filipino painter, a member of the Thirteen Moderns and the postwar Neo-Realist movement, who depicted labor and poverty in a Cubist style and was named National Artist in 1990.
Cesare Pascarella
Cesare Pascarella was an Italian painter and dialect poet from Rome, 1858 to 1940, first known for donkey paintings and later for Roman-dialect sonnets like Villa Gloria.
Chacmool
A chacmool is a Mesoamerican stone sculpture of a reclining figure on his elbows, holding an offering receptacle, named in 1875 and known from sites like Chichén Itzá and Tula.
Chaekgado
Chaekgado, also known as chaekgeori, is a Korean genre of still-life painting, most often on multi-panel folding screens, that depicts bookshelves filled with books and treasured objects.
Chalermchai Kositpipat
Chalermchai Kositpipat (เฉลิมชัย โฆษิตพิพัฒน์), born 1957, is a Thai National Artist painter best known for designing Wat Rong Khun, the White Temple in Chiang Rai.
Chalice of Abbot Suger
The Chalice of Abbot Suger is a sardonyx cup set in gilded silver, made for Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis before 1149 and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Chalood Nimsamer
Chalood Nimsamer (ชลูด นิ่มเสมอ, 1929–2015) was a Thai painter, sculptor, and printmaker named a National Artist of Thailand in 1998, and a student of Silpa Bhirasri.
Cham art
Cham art is the sculpture and brick tower temples of Champa, a Hindu kingdom on the central and southern coast of Vietnam from the 2nd century CE.
Cham sculpture
Cham sculpture is the Hindu and Buddhist statuary and relief carving made mainly in sandstone by the Cham civilization of Champa, in central and southern Vietnam.
Chan Chan relief adobe friezes
Chan Chan relief adobe friezes are sculpted clay and plaster ornaments on the adobe walls of Chan Chan, the Chimú kingdom capital near Trujillo, Peru.
Chandos portrait
Chandos portrait, an oil-on-canvas portrait believed to depict William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor, c. 1600–1610, 55.2 × 43.8 cm, first acquisition (NPG 1) of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Chanel No. 5
Chanel No. 5 (N°5), Chanel's 1921 perfume by Ernest Beaux for Gabrielle Chanel, the first abstract aldehyde-floral fragrance with over 80 ingredients, sold at one bottle per 30 seconds, with Eau de Parfum, EDT, and L'Eau versions.
Chang Chao-Tang
Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂, 1943–2024) was a Taiwanese photographer, documentary filmmaker, and educator, regarded as a pioneer of modern photography in Taiwan and a leader of its documentary tradition.
Chang'an school
The Chang'an school (长安画派) was a Chinese ink painting school centered in Xi'an, founded by Zhao Wangyun and led by Shi Lu, known for painting northwest China's landscapes and rural life.
Changing New York
Changing New York is a photographic survey of New York City by Berenice Abbott, made under the WPA from 1935 to 1938 and published as a book in 1939.
Changxin Palace Lamp
The Changxin Palace Lamp (长信宫灯) is a Western Han gilt-bronze lamp shaped as a kneeling attendant, excavated in 1968 and held in the Hebei Museum.
Chantilly porcelain
Chantilly porcelain is soft-paste porcelain made at Chantilly in northern France from about 1730 to the end of the eighteenth century, the first French porcelain imitating Japanese wares and marked with a hunting horn.
Charge (heraldry)
Charge (heraldry): any figure borne on a coat of arms, on the field, an ordinary, or another charge. Also called bearings. Classes include ordinaries, sub-ordinaries, and common charges, governed by the rule of tincture.
Charging Bull
Charging Bull, the Wall Street Bull, is Arturo Di Modica's 1989 bronze sculpture at Bowling Green, New York, installed guerrilla-style near the NYSE after the 1987 crash; central to the 2017 Fearless Girl copyright dispute.
Charioteer of Delphi
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as the Heniochos, is a life-size ancient Greek bronze statue of a chariot driver, made around 478–474 BC and excavated at Delphi in 1896.
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames: American husband-and-wife design partnership (Eames Office) behind molded plywood furniture, the Eames Lounge Chair, Case Study House No. 8, and Powers of Ten; active 1941–1978.
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter best known for watercolor landscapes of nature scenes and small-town and industrial America, honored with the first one-person show at MoMA in 1930.
Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth was an American painter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, known for watercolors and for Precisionism, with works including My Egypt and I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold.
Charles Edenshaw
Charles Edenshaw (Haida name Da.a xiigang, c. 1839–1920) was a Haida artist and chief from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, known for carving in wood, argillite, silver, and gold.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) was a French painter and decorator who served as First Painter to Louis XIV, founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and painted the Hall of Mirrors ceiling at Versailles.
Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) was an American painter and sculptor known as the "Cowboy Artist" for his paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and wildlife of Montana.
Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz (Sparky, 1922–2000), American cartoonist who solely wrote and drew Peanuts (originally Li'l Folks) from October 2, 1950 to 2000: 17,897 strips, 2,600+ newspapers, Reuben award 1955, died Santa Rosa.