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Crown jewels
Crown jewels are precious, symbolic regalia such as crowns, scepters, and orbs attached to sovereign office. Key collections include the British set at the Tower of London, the Danish garnitures at Rosenborg, and the French jewels partly stolen from the Louvre in 2025.
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, also called the British regalia or Honours of England, are the coronation crowns, sceptres, orb and plate kept at the Tower of London: 100+ objects, 23,000+ gemstones, Cullinan I at 530.2 carats, last used at Charles III's 2023 coronation.
Crown of Charlemagne
The Crown of Charlemagne is the name of two French regalia: the medieval coronation crown melted down in 1794, and Napoleon's 1804 imperial crown in the Louvre.
Crown of Christian IV
The Crown of Christian IV is the oldest surviving Danish royal crown, made in 1595-96 for Christian IV's coronation and displayed in the Treasury at Rosenborg Castle.
Crown of Eric XIV
The Crown of Eric XIV (Erik XIV:s krona) is the royal crown of Sweden, made in 23 carat gold in Stockholm in 1561 for the coronation of King Erik XIV.
Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
The Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, or Queen Mother's Crown, is a 1937 Garrard consort's crown with 2,800 diamonds and the Koh-i-Noor, worn at the 1937 and 1953 coronations and kept at the Tower of London.
Crown of Saint Louis
The Crown of Saint Louis is a 13th-century silver-gilt reliquary crown in the Louvre, given by Louis IX to the Dominican convent of Liège in 1267.
Crown of Saint Wenceslas
The Crown of Saint Wenceslas (Svatováclavská koruna) is the royal crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, made for Charles IV before 1346 and first worn at his 1347 coronation.
Crown of Scotland
The Crown of Scotland is the coronation crown of the Scottish monarchs, refashioned in its present form in 1540 for James V and displayed at Edinburgh Castle.
Crown of the Andes
The Crown of the Andes is a gold and emerald votive crown made in Popayán, Colombia, set with over 400 emeralds and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2015.
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) is Salvador Dalí's 1954 oil on canvas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showing Christ levitating before an unfolded tesseract, painted under his nuclear mysticism fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science.
Crystal Hefner
Crystal Hefner (Crystal M. Harris, born 1986) is an American model and memoirist, third wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (married 2012, widowed 2017), author of the 2024 New York Times bestselling memoir Only Say Good Things; later a California and Hawaii real estate agent.
Cuban poster art
Cuban poster art is the graphic poster tradition that flourished in Cuba after the 1959 Revolution, best known for hand-designed silkscreen film posters made at ICAIC.
Cubism
Cubism: avant-garde art movement invented in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque from 1907, breaking subjects into geometric planes shown from multiple viewpoints; Analytic and Synthetic phases, collage, major influence on 20th-century art.
Cubist sculpture
Cubist sculpture is sculpture made in the visual language of Cubism, developed in Paris from about 1909 through the early 1920s; its major sculptors included Picasso, Archipenko, Duchamp-Villon, and Lipchitz.
Cuerdale Hoard
The Cuerdale Hoard is a Viking-age hoard of about 8,600 coins and silver objects, buried around 905–910 and found in 1840 near Preston, Lancashire; it is the largest Viking silver hoard found in the British Isles.
Cui Zizhong
Cui Zizhong (崔子忠, originally Cui Dan, died 1644) was a Chinese figure painter of the late Ming dynasty, paired with Chen Hongshou as "Nan Chen, Bei Cui."
Cultural depictions of Napoleon
Cultural depictions of Napoleon Bonaparte: state-controlled painting (David, Gros, Appiani), the hero-saviour myth, British satire by Gillray and Rowlandson, theatre, Gance's 1927 film, and the Destination Napoleon heritage route.
Čumil (statue)
Čumil is a 1997 bronze statue by Viktor Hulík in Bratislava's Old Town, showing a man peeking out of a manhole; also called Man at Work or the sewage worker, it is among the city's most photographed landmarks.
Cup and ring mark
Cup and ring marks are Neolithic and early Bronze Age abstract rock carvings, a shallow cup surrounded by concentric grooves, found across Atlantic Europe, especially northern Britain, Ireland and Galicia; their meaning remains unknown.
Cusco School
The Cusco School (Escuela cuzqueña) was a Roman Catholic painting tradition that developed in Cusco, Peru, during the colonial period, chiefly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Cutout animation
Cutout animation is a stop-motion technique in which flat jointed figures cut from paper or card are moved frame by frame beneath an overhead camera.
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly (Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr., 1928–2011), American painter and sculptor based in Rome from 1957, known for scribbled, classically inspired canvases, blackboard paintings, Fifty Days at Iliam, and white plaster sculptures.
Cyclorama
Cyclorama: American term for a 360-degree panoramic painting in a purpose-built circular rotunda with a viewing platform and faux-terrain foreground, patented as the panorama by Robert Barker in 1787; famous survivors include Gettysburg (377 ft) and Atlanta; also a curved studio backdrop.
Cynthia Plaster Caster
Cynthia Plaster Caster, born Cynthia Albritton (1947-2022), was a Chicago artist and groupie who made over 70 plaster casts of musicians' erect penises starting with Jimi Hendrix in 1968, later breast casts; her collection is held by the Kinsey Institute.
Cypher (Marvel Comics)
Cypher (Douglas Aaron Ramsey) is a Marvel Comics mutant, a New Mutants member created in 1984 whose omnilingualism lets him understand any language; killed in New Mutants #60, resurrected, and now the villain Revelation in Age of Revelation.
Cypress Trees
Cypress Trees (檜図屏風, Hinoki-zu byōbu) is a pair of four-fold folding screens painted by the Japanese artist Kanō Eitoku around 1590, designated a National Treasure of Japan.
Czech Cubism
Czech Cubism (český kubismus) was the distinctive adaptation of cubism in Bohemia between roughly 1910 and 1925, the only place where cubism produced architecture, led by Pavel Janák and Josef Gočár.
Czech surrealism
Czech surrealism is the branch of the international surrealist movement that developed in Czechoslovakia from 1934, when poet Vítězslav Nezval founded the Surrealist Group in Prague, active to this day.
D'mba headdress
The D'mba headdress, also called nimba or yamban, is a colossal wooden shoulder mask in the form of a female bust, carved and performed by the Baga peoples of Guinea.