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Byzantine fresco painting
Byzantine fresco painting is the Byzantine Empire's wall-painting tradition, applying lime-bound pigments to wet plaster as a cheaper church-decoration alternative to mosaic, most popular in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Byzantine goldsmithing and cloisonné reliquary work
Byzantine goldsmithing and cloisonné reliquary work is a gold-and-enamel tradition centered on reliquaries, especially the staurotheke for True Cross fragments, the empire's most important metalwork.
Byzantine ivory carving
Byzantine ivory carving is the relief sculpture of the Eastern Roman Empire in elephant ivory, producing diptychs, icons, triptychs, and caskets from Late Antiquity through the medieval period.
Byzantine marble carving
Byzantine marble carving is the tradition of sculpting marble for architectural, liturgical, and funerary use in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to the fifteenth century.
Byzantine romance
Byzantine romance is Greek narrative fiction of the Byzantine Empire telling of lovers separated and reunited, in a 12th-century learned revival and later vernacular romances.
Byzantine silk
Byzantine silk is the silk woven in the Byzantine Empire from late antiquity onward, a state-regulated industry of Constantinople used for imperial ceremony, diplomacy, and status.
Byzantine textiles
Byzantine textiles are the woven fabrics of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, produced from the 4th century onward in linen, wool, and silk, including imperial purple silks.
Byzantium (film)
Byzantium (2012) is Neil Jordan's vampire drama, adapted by Moira Buffini from her play A Vampire Story, starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as 200-year-old mother-daughter vampires hunted by a male brotherhood; it premiered at TIFF 2012 and earned mixed-to-favorable reviews.
C (musical note)
C (musical note) is a pitch-class letter name in Western music; middle C is C4, about 261.63 Hz under A440 equal temperament, MIDI note 60, tonic of C major, and the note on which octave numbering starts.
C major
C major is the major key and scale on the notes C D E F G A B, with no sharps or flats in its key signature and all white piano keys from C to C. Its relative minor is A minor; tonic triad C-E-G.
C minor
C minor is a minor key with a three-flat key signature (B♭, E♭, A♭), relative major E♭ major, parallel major C major, natural minor scale C D E♭ F G A♭ B♭, and a raised leading tone B♮ in its harmonic minor form.
C U Soon
C U Soon (സീ യൂ സൂൺ) is a 2020 Malayalam screenlife mystery thriller directed, written, and edited by Mahesh Narayanan, starring Fahadh Faasil, Roshan Mathew, and Darshana Rajendran; shot in Kochi during lockdown, released on Amazon Prime Video September 1, 2020.
C-3PO
C-3PO, also known as See-Threepio, is a fictional protocol droid in the Star Wars franchise, fluent in more than seven million forms of communication and paired with R2-D2.
C-Murder
C-Murder, born Corey Miller in 1971, is an American rapper from New Orleans who was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for second-degree murder.
C-shaped jade dragon
The C-shaped jade dragon (C形玉龙) is a coiled jade dragon of the Neolithic Hongshan culture of northeastern China, often called the "first dragon of China."
C-sharp minor
C-sharp minor (C♯ minor) is the minor key with tonic C sharp, a four-sharp key signature, relative major E major, parallel major C♯ major, and famous works by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.
C,XOXO
C,XOXO is Camila Cabello's fourth studio album (June 28, 2024, Interscope), a Miami-themed club-pop pivot produced with El Guincho and Jasper Harris, led by the hyperpop single "I Luv It" and scored 64 on Metacritic.
C. Ashwath
C. Ashwath, born Channappa Ashwath (1939–2009), was a Kannada singer-composer and leading exponent of Sugama Sangeetha, best known for the 1982 cassette Mysuru Mallige, setting K.S. Narasimhaswamy's poems.
C. Auguste Dupin
C. Auguste Dupin is Edgar Allan Poe's fictional Parisian amateur detective, the first sleuth of detective fiction, appearing in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), and "The Purloined Letter" (1844), and modeling Sherlock Holmes.
C. C. Catch
C.C. Catch (Caroline Catharina Müller, born 1964 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch-German Eurodisco singer; Dieter Bohlen produced her 1985–88 hits and four albums before she won her stage name in court and released Hear What I Say (1989).
C. F. A. Voysey
C. F. A. Voysey, born Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, was a British architect and designer who built about fifty houses and was celebrated for his wallpapers and textiles.
C. F. Martin & Company
C. F. Martin & Co. (Martin Guitar): American acoustic guitar maker founded 1833 in New York by Christian Frederick Martin, now of Nazareth, Pennsylvania; known for X-bracing, the dreadnought body, and six generations of family ownership.
C. H. Greenblatt
Carl Harvey "C.H." Greenblatt (born 1972) is an American animator and voice actor, creator of Chowder, Harvey Beaks, and Jellystone!, and an early SpongeBob SquarePants writer and storyboard artist.
C. J. Box
C. J. Box, full name Charles James Box Jr., is an American crime and thriller writer born in 1958, best known for the Joe Pickett series about a Wyoming game warden.
C. J. Cregg
C.J. Cregg, full name Claudia Jean Cregg, is the fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on The West Wing (1999–2006), played by Allison Janney, who won four Emmys for the role.
C. J. Langenhoven
C. J. Langenhoven, born Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (1873–1932), was a South African writer and politician who led the campaign for Afrikaans recognition and wrote "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika".
C. J. Ramone
C.J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward, born 1965) is the American punk bassist who replaced Dee Dee Ramone in the Ramones from 1989 to 1996, later fronting Los Gusanos, Bad Chopper, solo albums, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
C. J. Sansom
C. J. Sansom (1952–2024), British author of the Shardlake Tudor crime series beginning with Dissolution (2003), plus Winter in Madrid and Dominion; Diamond Dagger winner, over 3 million copies sold.
C. J. Thomas
C. J. Thomas (സി. ജെ. തോമസ്; 1918–1960), full name Chollampel Yohannan Thomas, was a Malayalam playwright and critic whose plays, influenced by Bertolt Brecht, pioneered experimental theater in Malayalam.
C. L. Moore
C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Moore, 1911–1987), American science fiction and fantasy author, creator of Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry, first strong sword-and-sorcery heroine; collaborated with husband Henry Kuttner as Lewis Padgett.