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Bahruz Kangarli
Bahruz Kangarli (Bəhruz Kəngərli, 1892–1922) was an Azerbaijani painter and graphic artist from Nakhchivan, the first Azerbaijani with specialized art education, who produced nearly 2,000 works, including the "Refugees" series.
Baimiao
Baimiao (白描, "plain drawing") is a Chinese painting technique that renders subjects entirely in ink lines, without color; Li Gonglin founded it as a genre in the Northern Song.
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Bal du moulin de la Galette, also Dance at Le moulin de la Galette, is Renoir's 1876 oil painting of a Montmartre dancehall, held at the Musée d'Orsay since the 1896 Caillebotte legacy; a smaller version sold for $78.1 million in 1990.
Balchand
Balchand (بالچند) was a Hindu painter at the Mughal imperial courts from 1595 to about 1650, the brother of painter Payag and a master of portraiture.
Balthasar Permoser
Balthasar Permoser (1651–1732) was a German Baroque sculptor who spent nearly fifteen years in Italy, then shaped the sculptural decoration of the Dresden Zwinger as court sculptor of Saxony.
Balthus
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908–2001), French figurative painter of adolescent girls, street scenes, and interiors; self-taught, Piero della Francesca-influenced, Villa Medici director 1961–1976, Praemium Imperiale 1991.
Balyan family
The Balyan family, also spelled Balian, was an Ottoman Armenian dynasty of architects who served the sultans for four generations and built Dolmabahçe Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque.
Bamako Encounters
Bamako Encounters (Rencontres de Bamako) is a biennial festival of contemporary photography and video from Africa and its diaspora, held in Bamako, Mali, since 1994.
Bamana boli power objects
A Bamana boli (plural boliw) is a power object of the Bamana people of Mali, encrusted with sacrificial matter and believed to accumulate the life force nyama.
Bamberg Rider
The Bamberg Rider (Bamberger Reiter, also called Domreiter) is a life-size medieval equestrian statue of an unidentified crowned figure in Bamberg Cathedral, carved between 1225 and 1237.
Bamileke royal art
Bamileke royal art is the court art made for the kings and elites of the Bamileke chiefdoms of western Cameroon, famed for beaded elephant masks and thrones.
Bamum royal arts
Bamum royal arts are the courtly traditions of the Bamum kingdom in the Cameroon Grasslands, centered on Foumban, flourishing under King Ibrahim Njoya from about 1887.
Ban Dainagon Ekotoba
Ban Dainagon Ekotoba (伴大納言絵詞), also called Ban Dainagon Emaki, is a late Heian Japanese narrative handscroll depicting the Ōtenmon Conspiracy of 866, in which Tomo no Yoshio was exiled for arson.
Bandini Pietà
The Bandini Pietà, also called the Florentine Pietà or the Deposition, is a marble sculpture group Michelangelo carved in Rome between about 1547 and 1555.
Bane (DC Comics)
Bane (DC Comics) is a Batman supervillain debuting in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (1993), created by Dixon, O'Neil, Moench, and Nolan. A Santa Prisca prison-raised genius dependent on the Venom super-steroid, he broke Batman's back in Knightfall.
Bani Thani
Bani Thani (बणी ठणी) is an Indian miniature portrait of an idealized woman, painted around 1750 by the Kishangarh court artist Nihal Chand and known as the "Indian Mona Lisa".
Banksy
Banksy is the pseudonym of an anonymous British street artist, reportedly Robin Gunningham, born around 1972-1974 near Bristol, known for stenciled political murals, the self-shredding Love is in the Bin, Dismaland, and the Oscar-shortlisted film Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Banksy statue
Banksy statue, the Waterloo Place 'Blinded by the Flag' sculpture: unauthorized fibreglass statue of a suited man blinded by a flag, installed 29 April 2026 in London, confirmed by Banksy on Instagram, held by Westminster Council pending a permanence decision.
Banteay Srei style
Banteay Srei style is a period of Angkorian Khmer art, 967 to about 1000 CE, defined by the temple's pink sandstone and finely carved decoration.
Bao Shichen
Bao Shichen (包世臣, 1775–1855) was a Qing dynasty scholar and calligrapher from Jing County, Anhui, whose treatise Yizhou Shuangji became a foundational text of the stele school of calligraphy theory.
Baphuon style
The Baphuon style is a style of Khmer art and architecture of the Angkor era, named after the Baphuon temple and placed in the 11th century.
Baptistery of Saint Louis
The Baptistère de Saint Louis is a brass basin inlaid with silver and gold, made in Mamluk Egypt or Syria around 1325 to 1340 and now in the Louvre.
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
Barack Obama "Hope" poster is Shepard Fairey's 2008 red, beige, and blue stencil portrait of candidate Obama, based on a Mannie Garcia AP photograph, first captioned Progress, later acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud (born 1939) is an American and French sculptor and novelist in Paris, known for bronze sculptures draped in silk and the novel Sally Hemings.
Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon, also Batgirl and Oracle, is a DC Comics character created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino, debuting in Detective Comics #359 (1967), paralyzed by the Joker in The Killing Joke (1988), and reinvented as the information broker Oracle.
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), Wakefield-born British abstract sculptor of the St Ives school; known for pierced forms, stringed carvings like Pelagos, Single Form at the UN, and the Trewyn Studio museum.
Barbara Jakobson
Barbara Joan Jakobson, née Petchesky (1933–2025), was an American art collector and Museum of Modern Art trustee for fifty-one years, known for helping acquire Rauschenberg's Bed.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born 1945, Newark, New Jersey) is an American conceptual artist of the Pictures Generation, formerly a Condé Nast graphic designer, known for black-and-white photos with white-on-red slogans like "I shop therefore I am" and "Your body is a battleground."
Barber's pole
Barber's pole: striped cylindrical trade sign outside barbershops, red and white or red, white, and blue, rooted in barber-surgeon bloodletting and namesake of the barber pole motion illusion.
Barberini Faun
The Barberini Faun, also known as the Drunk Satyr, is a Hellenistic marble statue of a sleeping satyr found in Rome in the 1620s and now in Munich's Glyptothek.