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Caesar, Julius (Roman statesman and general)
Caesarion (Ptolemy XIV, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra)
Calabresi, Domenico (artist)
Caligula (Roman emperor)
Calvert, Edward (artist)
Cambyses (king of Persia)
Camp, Sokari Douglas (artist)
Campana, Marchese Giorgio (collector)
Campani, Pietro Tommasi (clockmaker)
Canaletto, Giovanni Antonio (artist)
Caracalla (Roman emperor)
Carpaccio, Vittore (artist)
Carpi, Ugo da (artist)
Carracci, Annibale (artist)
Carroll, Lewis (mathematician and novelist)
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (artist)
Catherine II 'the Great' (Empress of Russia)
Cavendish, William (1st Duke of Devonshire)
Caviglia, Giovanni Battista (archaeologist)
Cecilia (Christian saint)
Celan, Paul (writer)
Ceracchi, Guiseppe (sculptor)
Ceres (Roman goddess)
Cézanne, Paul (artist)
Chalchiuhtlicue (Aztec goddess)
Champollion, Jean-François (Egyptologist)
Chamunda (Hindu goddess)
Chares (ruler of Teichioussa)
Charlemagne (king of the Franks, king of the Lombards and Holy Roman Emperor)
Charles I (king of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles I (king of Hungary)
Charles I of Anjou (king of Naples and Sicily)
Charles II (king of Great Britain and Ireland)
Charles II 'the Bald' (king of France)
Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (poet)
Chen Shun (artist)
Chenghua (emperor of China)
Chigi Painter (vase painter)
Chirico, Giorgio de (artist)
Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (artist)
Christ, Jesus
Christian Ludwig (duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg)
Christina (queen of Sweden)
Christy, Henry (collector)
Classicianus, Gaius Julius Alpinus (procurator)
Claude
Claudius (Roman emperor)
Clement X (Pope)
Clennell, Luke (artist)
Cleopatra VII (queen of Egypt)
Clytie (Greek nymph)
Cnut (king of England, Denmark and Norway)
Cock Blomhoff, Jan (merchant and collector)
Cock, Hieronymous (publisher)
Cockey, Edward (clockmaker)
Coenrad, Jacobs (watchmaker)
Cole, Humphrey (instrument maker)
Colquhoun, Robert (artist)
Commodus (Roman emperor)
Compton, William (1st Earl of Northampton)
Conall Cael (Christian saint)
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur (author)
Conrad, Joseph (writer)
Constable, John (artist)
Constans II (Byzantine emperor)
Constantine I ('the Great', Roman emperor)
Constantius I Chlorus (Roman ruler of Gaul)
Constantius II (Roman emperor)
Cook, Captain James (explorer)
Corinth, Lovis (artist)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (artist)
Correggio, Antonio (artist)
Cortona, Pietro da (artist)
Cotman, John Sell (artist)
Courbet, Gustave (artist)
Court, Susanne de (enamel painter)
Cozens, Alexander (artist)
Cozens, John Robert (artist)
Craft, Thomas (porcelain painter)
Craft, William Hopkins (artist)
Cranach, Lucas 'the Elder' (artist)
Crane, Walter (artist, designer)
Croesus (king of Lydia)
Cromwell, Oliver (lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland)
Cruikshank, George (artist)
Cuileáin (Christian saint)
Cunincpert (king of the Lombards)
Cupid (Roman god)
Cyclops Painter
Cynethryth (queen of Mercia)
Cyrus (king of Persia)
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