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Christ of Esquipulas
The Christ of Esquipulas, also called the Cristo Negro or Black Christ, is a dark wooden crucifix carved by Quirio Cataño in 1594, venerated in eastern Guatemala.
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is Salvador Dalí's 1951 oil painting of an unmarked Christ seen from above over Port Lligat, based on a drawing by the Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross; it hangs in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, bought in 1952 for £8,200.
Christ Pantocrator (Χριστὸς Παντοκράτωρ) (Sinai)
The Sinai Christ Pantocrator (Χριστὸς Παντοκράτωρ) is a 6th-century encaustic icon, 84 x 45.5 cm, at St Catherine's Monastery, the oldest known example of the type, revealed by 1962 cleaning after overpainting, famous for its asymmetric face.
Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) is the 30-meter Art Deco statue of Jesus on Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated 12 October 1931, designed by Heitor da Silva Costa with Paul Landowski, clad in soapstone mosaic, funded by Brazilian donations, and named a New Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
Christer Strömholm
Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was a Swedish photographer best known for his night portraits of the transgender community around Paris's Place Blanche, published as Les amies de Place Blanche.
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski (1944–2021), French installation artist of memory, death, and archives; works include Les Archives de C.B., Théâtres d'ombres, Le Cœur, Animitas; partner of Annette Messager.
Christina's World
Christina's World (1948), Andrew Wyeth's tempera painting of his paraplegic Maine neighbor Anna Christina Olson crawling toward the Olson farmhouse; bought by MoMA in 1949, titled by his wife Betsy, widely reproduced, parodied, and critically divisive.
Christine Ay Tjoe
Christine Ay Tjoe, born 1973 in Bandung, Indonesia, is a contemporary artist known for abstract paintings and works on paper exploring spirituality, psychology, and humanity's relationship with nature.
Christmas Eve, Happy Club
Christmas Eve, Happy Club (Nuit de Noël) is a 1963 black-and-white photograph by the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, showing a young couple dancing at an outdoor nightclub in Bamako.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon) were a collaborative artist duo known for large-scale temporary installations, including wrapping the Reichstag and The Gates in Central Park, both born June 13, 1935.
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936-2022), Vienna-born Berkeley architect, created the pattern language concept in A Pattern Language (1977), founded the Center for Environmental Structure, built over 200 buildings, and influenced software design patterns.
Christopher Ciccone
Christopher Ciccone (1960-2024), American artist, dancer, and interior designer, younger brother of Madonna; art director of Blond Ambition, tour director of The Girlie Show, author of the 2008 bestselling memoir Life with My Sister Madonna.
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was a Scottish designer and botanist, widely regarded as Britain's first independent industrial designer, who produced thousands of designs for metalwork, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and wallpapers, and embraced machine production.
Christopher Gibbs
Christopher Henry Gibbs (1938–2018), also 'Chrissie' or 'Dibbley', was a British antiques dealer and tastemaker who opened his first Islington shop in 1958, created the distressed-bohemian English country house look, advised Mick Jagger and John Paul Getty II, and died in Tangier on his 80th birthday.
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington (born 1969), also Christy Turlington Burns, American supermodel and maternal health advocate; face of Calvin Klein Eternity since 1988, January 1990 British Vogue cover, founder of Every Mother Counts.
Chromogenic print
A chromogenic print, also known as a dye coupler print or C-print, is a color photographic print formed from dyes developed chemically, most common since 1942.
Chromolithography
Chromolithography, also known as oleography, is a color printing process that builds an image from separate stones, one per color, patented by Godefroy Engelmann in 1837.
Chronophotographic gun
The chronophotographic gun (French: fusil photographique) is a camera shaped like a rifle, invented by French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey in 1882, firing twelve exposures per second onto a rotating glass plate.
Chuck Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021), American painter and printmaker of monumental gridded Photorealist portraits; Big Self-Portrait, 1988 quadriplegia, face blindness, 2017 harassment allegations.
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones, Charles Martin Jones, was an American animator and director who shaped the Golden Age of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and founded the Chuck Jones Foundation in 2000.
Chun Kyung-ja
Chun Kyung-ja (천경자; 1924–2015) was a South Korean painter of colored Oriental painting, known as the "magician of colors" for her vivid depictions of women, flowers, and snakes.
Church Militant (icon)
Church Militant, originally Blessed is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar, is a 1550s Russian icon commemorating Ivan the Terrible's capture of Kazan, now in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Churrigueresque
Churrigueresque (Spanish: churrigueresco), also called estípite baroque in Mexico, is an extravagantly ornamented Baroque architectural style, flourishing from about 1680 to 1790 in Spain and Spanish America.
Chūson-ji Konjikidō statues
The Chūson-ji Konjikidō statues are 33 gilt Buddhist images on the three altars of the golden Konjikidō (金色堂) hall at Chūson-ji in Hiraizumi, completed in 1124.
Cildo Meireles
Cildo Meireles (born 1948, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian conceptual artist known for Insertions into Ideological Circuits, stamped banknotes and Coca-Cola bottles resisting Brazil's dictatorship.
Cimabue
Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi, Florence, documented 1272, died Pisa 1302), Florentine painter of the Santa Trinita Maestà and Assisi frescoes, who led Italian painting from the Byzantine maniera greca toward naturalism and taught Giotto.
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American photographer of the Pictures Generation, known for Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), staged self-transformations that are not self-portraits, and the new Fabric Matrons series.
Cinnamoroll (シナモロール)
Cinnamoroll (シナモロール, character name Cinnamon) is a Sanrio white puppy character created by Miyuki Okumura, launched 2002, mascot of Cafe Cinnamon, birthday March 6, with seven Sanrio Character Ranking wins including 2020–2024 consecutively; 2nd place in 2025 and 2026.
Circle-A
Circle-A (circled A, Ⓐ): the best-known anarchist symbol, a capital A inside a circle read as Proudhon's "Anarchy is Order." Designed in Paris in 1964 by Ibáñez and Darras, reinvented in Milan in 1966, popularized by 1970s anarcho-punk.
Cizhou ware
Cizhou ware (磁州窯) is a non-imperial Chinese stoneware from kilns in Hebei, named for the Song prefecture of Cizhou and known for black-painted decoration on white slip.