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Coat of arms of Pope Leo XIV
Coat of arms of Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), 267th pope: diagonally divided shield with silver fleur-de-lis on blue and the Augustinian flaming pierced heart on a book, motto In Illo Uno Unum, retained from Chiclayo.
Coat of arms of Spain
The coat of arms of Spain (Escudo de España) is the national heraldic emblem, fixed by Law 33/1981 and showing the arms of five historic kingdoms.
Coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman coat of arms (Arma-i Osmânî) was the empire's Western-style state emblem, adopted by Sultan Abdulhamid II on 17 April 1882 from a British-initiated design, featuring the tughra, crescent and star, and used until 1922.
Coat of arms of the Washington family
Coat of arms of the Washington family: English arms argent, two bars gules, three red mullets in chief, confirmed 1592 and 1791, borne by George Washington and now the design behind the District of Columbia flag.
Coatlicue statue
The Coatlicue statue is a colossal Aztec stone sculpture of a decapitated goddess, found in Mexico City in 1790 and now in the National Anthropology Museum.
Codex Aureus of Echternach
The Codex Aureus of Echternach, the Codex Aureus Epternacensis, is an Ottonian Gospel book written entirely in gold ink at Echternach abbey around 1030 to 1045.
Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram
The Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram is a Carolingian Gospel book written entirely in gold ink in 870 at the court school of Charles the Bald.
Codex Bodley
Codex Bodley, also called Codex Ñuu Tnoo–Ndisi Nuu, is a Mixtec pictorial screenfold manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library recording the dynastic histories of the Mixtec kingdoms of Tilantongo and Tlaxiaco.
Codex Laud
The Codex Laud is a pre-Hispanic Mexican pictographic manuscript of the Borgia Group, a divinatory book named after Archbishop William Laud and held at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Coexist (image)
Coexist image: "CoeXisT"/"COEXIST" interfaith graphic spelling the word with religious symbols. Created 2000 by Polish designer Piotr Młodożeniec for Jerusalem's Museum on the Seam; common sticker version by Jerry Jaspar; subject of trademark and copyright disputes.
Cold Food Observance
Cold Food Observance (寒食帖), also called Poems Written at Huangzhou on the Cold Food Festival, is a handscroll of running-script calligraphy by Song poet Su Shi, ranked the third greatest running script.
Collage
Collage (from French coller, to glue) is the art form of gluing found fragments such as paper, photographs, and fabric to a surface; adopted by Picasso and Braque in 1912, distinct from photomontage and three-dimensional assemblage.
Collodion process
The collodion process is a mid-19th-century photographic method, invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, in which a wet, sensitized glass plate is exposed in the camera.
Color field
Color field painting is a tendency within Abstract Expressionism, distinct from action painting, using large flat or stained expanses of color; pioneered by Rothko, Newman, and Still in the late 1940s.
Color photography
Color photography records scene colors on film, paper, or digital sensors. From Maxwell's 1861 three-color ribbon demonstration and the 1907 Lumière autochrome to Kodachrome, chromogenic C-prints, Polaroid, and today's digital color filter arrays and ISO 19264 imaging standards.
Color scheme
A color scheme is a selection of hues intended to work harmoniously in a design, typically built from fixed relationships on the color wheel, in types such as complementary and triadic.
Color symbolism
Color symbolism is the association of specific colors with meanings, emotions, and cultural values, distinct from color psychology. Key facts: 132-study review of color-emotion links across 64 countries; red means fortune in China but danger in the West; WCAG bars color-only meaning.
Color theory
Color theory: the principles and systems describing color production, organization, and perception, spanning artistic tradition (Newton's 1704 color wheel, Goethe, Chevreul, Munsell, Bauhaus) and scientific colorimetry (CIE 1931, CIELAB, CAM16-UCS).
Color wheel
Color wheel: circular diagram arranging hues by spectrum order to show color relationships. Also called 色轮 or colour circle. Includes Newton's 1704 first wheel, RYB vs RGB models, and harmony rules (complementary, analogous, triadic).
Colorful Realm of Living Beings
Colorful Realm of Living Beings (Dōshoku sai-e) is a set of thirty bird-and-flower hanging scrolls painted by Itō Jakuchū around 1766, held in the Japanese imperial collection.
Colossal Bronze Head of Constantine
The Colossal Bronze Head of Constantine is a gilded bronze head, 177 cm tall, probably depicting Constantine the Great, moved to Rome's Capitoline Museums from the Lateran in 1471.
Colossus of Constantine
The Colossus of Constantine was a colossal seated statue of Emperor Constantine the Great that stood in the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome, dated 313 to 324 AD.
Colossus of Rhodes (Κολοσσός της Ρόδου)
Colossus of Rhodes (Κολοσσός της Ρόδου), 34 m bronze statue of Helios by Chares of Lindos, built 295–283 BC, one of the Seven Wonders, felled by earthquake in 227 BC; no trace survives.
Columbia (personification)
Columbia, also Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia, is the female national personification of the United States and a poetic name for the country, derived from Christopher Columbus; she reigned from the 17th century until being displaced by the Statue of Liberty after World War I.
Comedian (artwork)
Comedian (2019) is Maurizio Cattelan's conceptual artwork: a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold as certificate plus instructions. Debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach at $120,000; an edition sold for $6.2 million to Justin Sun in 2024.
Comic book
A comic book is a publication that combines words and pictures in sequential panels to tell a story. It originated in the 1930s as newspaper strip reprints.
Comic book convention
Comic book convention (comic con): organized public fan gatherings for comics and pop culture, begun in 1964; San Diego Comic-Con (founded 1970, ~135,000 attendees) is the flagship, with cosplay, artist alley, panels, and global licensed editions.
Comic Sans
Comic Sans MS, designed by Vincent Connare for Microsoft in 1994 for Microsoft Bob speech bubbles, is a comic-book-inspired sans-serif shipped with Windows 95, later the world's most mocked font.
Commodus as Hercules
Commodus as Hercules is the depiction of Roman emperor Commodus (ruled 180–192) with Hercules' lion skin, club, and golden apples, most famously in the Capitoline marble bust.
Company painting
Company painting, also called Company style or Company School painting, is a style of Indian painting made for European patrons, especially East India Company employees, from about 1770 to the 1840s.