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Block printing - Champieve
     
Decoratively carved and/or painted wood paneling or wainscoting, usually applied to seventeenth an eighteenth century French interiors.
Boiserie		 A still life painting representing food and drink normally eaten at breakfast.
Breakfast piece		 Bronze- An alloy of copper and tin, also any sculpture or object made from the substance.
Bronze		 Calligraphy- The art of highly ornamental handwriting.
Calligraphy		 An early cameralike device used in the Renaissance and later for recording images of nature.
Camera Obscura		 The Italian term for a free standing tower
Campanile
Canon of proportions- A set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body.
Canon of proportions		 Capriccio- A painting or print of a fantastic imaginary landscape, usually with architecture
Capriccio		 Caricature- An artwork that exaggerates individual peculiarities usually with humorous or satirical intent.
Caricature		 Caryatid- A sculpture of a draped female figure acting as a column.
Caryatid		 Cenotaph- A funerary monument commemorating an individual or group buried elsewhere.
Alamo Cenotaph		 Chacmool- In Mayan sculpture, a half reclining figure, probably representing an offering bearer.
Chacmool
Block printing- Creation of a printed image, such as a woodcut or wood engraving from a carved woodblock.

Boiserie- Decoratively carved and/or painted wood paneling or wainscoting, usually applied to seventeenth an eighteenth century French interiors.

Boss- a decorative knoblike element. Bosses can be found in many places, such as the intersection of a gothic vault rib.

Breakfast piece- A still life painting representing food and drink normally eaten at breakfast.

Bronze- An alloy of copper and tin, also any sculpture or object made from the substance.

Calligraphy- The art of highly ornamental handwriting.

Camera obscura- An early cameralike device used in the Renaissance and later for recording images of nature.

Campanile- The Italian term for a free standing tower.

Canon of proportions- A set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body.

Capriccio- A painting or print of a fantastic imaginary landscape, usually with architecture.

Caricature- An artwork that exaggerates individual peculiarities usually with humorous or satirical intent.

Caryatid- A sculpture of a draped female figure acting as a column.

Cenotaph- A funerary monument commemorating an individual or group buried elsewhere.

Chacmool- In Mayan sculpture, a half reclining figure, probably representing an offering bearer.

Chamfer- The slanted surface produced when an angle is trimmed or beveled, common in building and metalwork.

Champieve- Enamel technique in which the cells gouged out of the metal plate hold colored glass.

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