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Bend (heraldry)
Bend (heraldry): a diagonal ordinary running from dexter chief to sinister base, one-fifth to one-third of the field, with diminutives bendlet, cotise, ribbon; the bend sinister is not a mark of bastardy.
Benedictional of St Æthelwold
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold is a tenth-century Latin manuscript of episcopal blessings, written by Godeman for Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester and illustrated with 28 full-page miniatures.
Benedicto Cabrera
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera, known as BenCab, is a Filipino painter and printmaker declared National Artist for Visual Arts in 2006, known for his Sabel and Larawan series.
Bengal Patachitra
Bengal Patachitra (পটচিত্র) is a traditional scroll painting from West Bengal in which artists called Patuas unfurl painted scrolls while singing the stories shown on them.
Bengal School of Art
The Bengal School of Art was an early twentieth-century Indian movement founded in Calcutta by E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore that rejected Western academic realism for a nationalist style.
Beniamino Bufano
Beniamino Bufano (1898–1970) was an Italian-born American sculptor who worked in granite, bronze, and stainless steel, leaving more than two dozen statues across San Francisco.
Benin ivory carving
Benin ivory carving is the royal court tradition of carved elephant ivory in the Kingdom of Benin, in southwestern Nigeria, from roughly the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants
The Benin plaque of the Oba and attendants is a 16th-century cast-brass relief from Benin City showing the oba, or king, flanked by arm-supporting attendants.
Benjamin Kračun
Benjamin Kračun is a Scottish cinematographer born in 1981. He is known for his work on The Substance and won the 2024 European Film Award for Cinematography.
Benjamin West
Benjamin West (1738–1820) was an American-born painter who settled in London, became historical painter to George III, and served as the Royal Academy's second president.
Benkan
The benkan (冕冠), also called tama no kōburi, is a ceremonial crown worn by Japanese emperors and crown princes at enthronements, derived from the Chinese mianguan and crowned with a sun-shaped ornament.
Bennett Monolith
The Bennett Monolith is the largest complete stone sculpture of the Tiwanaku civilization, a sandstone figure excavated in 1932 and named for archaeologist Wendell C. Bennett.
Benode Behari Mukherjee
Benode Behari Mukherjee (বিনোদ বিহারী মুখোপাধ্যায়, 1904–1980) was an Indian painter and muralist of the Santiniketan school, best known for his 80-foot Hindi Bhavan mural and for working after going blind in 1957.
Benozzo Gozzoli
Benozzo Gozzoli, properly Benozzo di Lese (c. 1420/21–1497), Florentine Renaissance fresco painter trained with Fra Angelico; Magi Chapel at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Montefalco, San Gimignano, and Pisa Camposanto cycles.
Bentwood furniture
Bentwood furniture, German Bugholzmöbel, is furniture of solid beechwood rods bent into shape with pressurized steam, pioneered by Michael Thonet in Vienna in the 1840s.
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), Florentine Mannerist goldsmith, sculptor, and writer; creator of the Saliera and the bronze Perseus, and author of the famous Vita autobiography.
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) was an American photographer whose Changing New York series documented the city's architecture, and who preserved and promoted Eugène Atget's archive, later also photographing scientific phenomena.
Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach (1887-1979), British studio potter trained in Japan, founded the Leach Pottery at St Ives with Shoji Hamada in 1920, wrote A Potter's Book (1940), and is regarded as the father of British studio pottery.
Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–1590) was a French Huguenot ceramicist, naturalist, and writer, inventor of the lead-glazed "rustiques figulines" and creator of Catherine de' Medici's destroyed Tuileries grotto.
Bernard Plossu
Bernard Plossu is a French photographer, born in 1945 in Dalat, Vietnam, known for travel reportage made with a 50 mm lens in black and white and Fresson-process color.
Bernard Takawira
Bernard Takawira (1948–1997) was a Zimbabwean stone sculptor from Nyanga, younger brother of John Takawira, and a leading first-generation figure of Zimbabwe's stone sculpture movement, winning Zimbabwe Heritage in 1988.
Bernard van Orley
Bernard van Orley, also Barend or Bernaert van Orley, was a Netherlandish painter and tapestry designer in Brussels who served as court painter to Margaret of Austria.
Bernardo Bitti
Bernardo Bitti (1548–1610) was an Italian Jesuit painter and sculptor from Camerino who reached Lima in 1575 and introduced Mannerism to Peru, helping found the Cuzco school.
Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi, called il Prete genovese, was an Italian Baroque painter and etcher born in Genoa around 1581, regarded as the leading Genoese painter of his era.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla Becher (1934-2015), German photographer couple known for typologies, systematic black-and-white grids of disappearing industrial structures; founders of the Düsseldorf photography school.
Bernie Wrightson
Bernie Wrightson (1948–2017), American horror comic artist who co-created DC's Swamp Thing with Len Wein in House of Secrets #92 (1971), drew its first ten issues, and illustrated Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1983).
Bernward Column
The Bernward Column, or Christ Column, is a bronze triumphal column with a spiral relief of scenes from the life of Jesus, made around 1020 for Hildesheim.
Bernward Doors
The Bernward Doors are monumental bronze doors cast for Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany in 1015 at the order of Bishop Bernward, the oldest medieval bronze doors with figural scenes.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy (Albert William Thomas Hardy, 1913–1995) was a self-taught British photojournalist and chief photographer of Picture Post, known for the Gorbals series, D-Day, and Korea.
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841–1895), French Impressionist painter and the only woman in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition at Nadar's studio; married Eugène Manet, painted women and children in pastel color with rapid, unfinished-looking brushwork.