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Barberini Ivory
The Barberini Ivory, also called the Barberini Diptych, is a Byzantine ivory relief of a triumphant emperor, carved in Constantinople around 525–550 and held in the Louvre.
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century group of French painters, led by Rousseau, Corot, and Millet, who painted rural landscape near the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Bark painting
Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form using earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, most characteristically in Arnhem Land, with surviving works dating from the mid-19th century.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was an American painter and founding member of abstract expressionism, best known for large fields of solid color divided by narrow vertical bands he called "zips."
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: American comic strip created by Billy DeBeck, debuted June 17, 1919 as Take Barney Google, F'rinstance; a King Features Appalachian comedy starring Snuffy Smith since 1934, drawn by Lasswell 1942–2001 and John Rose since.
Baroda school
The Baroda school is a movement in modern Indian art tied to the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, known for narrative figuration.
Barong mask
A Barong mask is a carved wooden mask from Bali, Indonesia, representing Barong, a mythical protective beast, most famously the lion-like Barong Ket with a human-hair beard.
Baroque
Baroque: ornate European style of art, architecture and design, c. 1580–1750, originating in Italy; also called barroco-derived label. Defined by drama, movement, fused arts, and Catholic Counter-Reformation patronage under Bernini and Caravaggio.
Baroque painting
Baroque painting: dramatic European painting style originating in Rome around 1600, flourishing to about 1750. Also known as Counter-Reformation art; defined by chiaroscuro, tenebrism, diagonal compositions, and emotional intensity, with Caravaggio, the Carracci, and Rubens as leading figures.
Barret Wallace
Barret Wallace is the AVALANCHE leader in Final Fantasy VII and its remake trilogy, a gun-armed father figure from the destroyed town of Corel; designed by Tetsuya Nomura, voiced in English by John Eric Bentley.
Barroco de Indias
Barroco de Indias, a term coined by Mariano Picón Salas, names the Baroque of 17th- and 18th-century colonial Latin America, transformed by cultural syncretism into a style distinct from Europe's.
Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor from Antwerp who became court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague and the leading creator of rudolfine Mannerism.
Bartolomé Bermejo
Bartolomé Bermejo, born Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was a Spanish painter of the 15th century, active at Valencia, Daroca, Zaragoza, and Barcelona in the Crown of Aragon.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617/1618–1682), Sevillian Spanish Baroque painter, leading artist of 17th-century Seville; known for soft, vaporous religious works, Immaculate Conceptions, and genre scenes of beggar children.
Bas Jan Ader
Bas Jan Ader (Bastiaan Johan Christiaan Ader, 1942–disappeared 1975), Dutch conceptual and performance artist in Los Angeles, known for the Fall films, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, and the unfinished In Search of the Miraculous, lost at sea crossing the Atlantic in 1975.
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, also recorded as Basilio de Santa Cruz Puma Callao, was a Peruvian painter of Quechua origin from Cusco and a leading master of the colonial Cuzco School.
Baskerville
Baskerville is a Transitional serif typeface created in the 1750s by Birmingham printer John Baskerville, first used in his 1757 Virgil; known for vertical stress, high stroke contrast, and revivals from Monotype, Libre Baskerville, and Baskerville Punch.
Basohli painting
Basohli painting is a school of Pahari miniature painting that flourished in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Basohli, a hill state in present-day Jammu and Kashmir.
Basohli Tantric Devi series
The Basohli Tantric Devi series is a set of about seventy miniature paintings of the goddess Devi, made around 1660 to 1670 at Basohli in North India.
Basse Yutz Flagons
The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of early Celtic bronze wine flagons found in Lorraine, France, in 1927 and held in the British Museum.
Basuki Abdullah
Basuki Abdullah (1915–1993) was an Indonesian realist and naturalist painter, often called Indonesia's finest portraitist, who served as official painter of the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta.
Batgirl
Batgirl: DC Comics superheroine, chiefly Barbara Gordon (also Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown). Created 1967 for the Batman TV era by Dozier and Infantino; paralyzed in The Killing Joke, later Oracle.
Batman: Hush
Batman: Hush, a 2002-2003 twelve-issue Batman storyline (Batman #608-619) by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, in which the villain Hush, revealed as Bruce Wayne's childhood friend Thomas Elliot, manipulates Batman's rogues gallery; followed by Heart of Hush and Hush 2.
Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras
Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras is a large 1913–14 oil painting by the Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella, held at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Battleship Cove
Battleship Cove is a non-profit naval museum and war memorial in Fall River, Massachusetts, founded in 1965 around the battleship USS Massachusetts, with five National Historic Landmark vessels including USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., USS Lionfish, and the only restored PT boat pair.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus: German school of art, architecture and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in April 1919, continued in Dessau and Berlin, closed by Nazi pressure in 1933; famed for art-and-technology modernism.
Bauhaus metal workshop
The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.
Bauhaus photography
Bauhaus photography is the photographic work and teaching of the German Bauhaus art school, active 1919 to 1933, driven above all by László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
Bauhaus typography
Bauhaus typography is the geometric, functionalist lettering and page layout produced at the German Bauhaus school between 1919 and 1933, known for sans-serif type, lowercase setting, and asymmetric layouts.
Baule art
Baule art (Baoulé art) is the wood-carving tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, including spirit-spouse figures, mblo and Goli masks, and carved doors.