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Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It
Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It is an 1860 photograph by James Wallace Black, taken from a balloon over Boston and the earliest surviving aerial photograph.
Boteh
Boteh (بته), also transliterated buta, is a Persian decorative motif shaped like a curved teardrop or leaf, used for centuries on carpets, shawls, and textiles.
Boucheron
Boucheron is a French high jewelry house founded in Paris in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron, known for the clasp-free Question Mark necklace and owned by Kering.
Boudoir photography
Boudoir photography, also called boudoir portraiture, is intimate semi-clothed studio portraiture made privately for the subject themselves, distinct from glamour and erotic photography. Genre roots trace to 1920s-era boudoir imagery; modern client-led boudoir took shape in the 1990s and 2000s.
Boulevard du Temple (photograph)
Boulevard du Temple, also titled Paris Boulevard, is an 1838 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre, considered the earliest surviving photograph of human beings: a shoe shiner and his customer.
Boxer at Rest
Boxer at Rest, also called the Terme Boxer, is a Hellenistic bronze statue of a wounded seated boxer, unearthed in Rome in 1885 and now in the National Roman Museum.
Boy with Baby Carriage
Boy with Baby Carriage (also called Salutation) is Norman Rockwell's 1916 oil-on-canvas first Saturday Evening Post cover, published May 20, 1916, showing a formally dressed boy pushing a carriage while baseball-uniformed boys mock him; one model posed all three boys.
Brad Goreski
Brad Goreski is a Canadian celebrity stylist and TV personality from Port Perry, Ontario, known for The Rachel Zoe Project, It's a Brad, Brad World, Fashion Police, Kate Spade brand styling, and judging Canada's Drag Race.
Brainiac 5
Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a DC Comics superhero, a green-skinned 12th-level Coluan genius and descendant of Superman's enemy Brainiac. Created by Siegel and Mooney, debuting in Action Comics #276 (1961), he serves the 30th-century Legion of Super-Heroes, invented its flight rings, and appears in the 2006 cartoon and 2023 animated film.
Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel (Cappella Brancacci) is a frescoed chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, decorated by Masolino and Masaccio in the 1420s with scenes from the Life of Saint Peter.
Brâncovenesc style
The Brâncovenesc style (stilul brâncovenesc) is an artistic and architectural style of late 17th and early 18th century Wallachia, named after Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and blending local, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Western traditions.
Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë (Patrick Branwell Brontë, 1817–1848), English painter, poet, and only brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, known for the Pillar Portrait and Gun Group of his sisters, his failed careers, and his death at 31.
Brassaï
Brassaï, the pseudonym of Gyula Halász, was a Hungarian-born French photographer famous for his dramatic photographs of Paris at night, collected in his 1932 book Paris de Nuit.
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), originally titled A Fair Wind, is an 1876 oil painting by Winslow Homer of a young man and three boys sailing a catboat.
Brian Azzarello
Brian Azzarello (born 1962, Cleveland) is an American comics writer, best known for the Eisner-winning Vertigo crime series 100 Bullets with artist Eduardo Risso, plus Wonder Woman, Joker, and Batman work for DC.
Brian Duffy
Brian Duffy (1933–2010), known professionally as Duffy, was a British fashion and portrait photographer who, with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, defined Swinging London and shot Bowie's Aladdin Sane cover.
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen (born 1970) is a Canadian sculptor of Dane-zaa and Swiss heritage known for turning Nike sneakers and plastic chairs into masks and whale skeletons.
Brice Marden
Brice Marden (Nicholas Brice Marden Jr., 1938–2023) was an American painter known first for luminous monochrome panels and, from the 1980s, calligraphic abstractions inspired by Asian calligraphy.
Bricolage
Bricolage, from Claude Lévi-Strauss's La Pensée sauvage (1962), is the making of new things by adaptive reuse of materials and ideas at hand; the bricoleur concept spread to design, architecture, semiotics, and entrepreneurial management research.
Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931, London) is an English painter, a founder of Op art. Black-and-white Current (1964) featured in MoMA's 1965 The Responsive Eye; she won the 1968 Venice Biennale International Prize for Painting and turned to color from 1967.
Brihadisvara Nandi
The Brihadisvara Nandi is a colossal monolithic sculpture of Nandi, the bull mount of Shiva, at the Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, carved from a single black granite block about 6 meters long.
Brillo Boxes
Brillo Boxes: Andy Warhol's 1964 plywood sculptures silkscreened with Brillo soap pad carton graphics, first shown at New York's Stable Gallery and central to Arthur Danto's artworld theory of art.
Bringing Up Father
Bringing Up Father, also known as Jiggs and Maggie, is George McManus's American comic strip (1913–2000) about a nouveau riche Irish-American couple: Jiggs longs for his old tavern life while Maggie pursues high society; syndicated by King Features and adapted for stage, film, and radio.
Britney Manson
Britney Manson, stage name of Nika Kraush (born 1995), is a Russian-Estonian transgender model, singer, and TikTok personality who went viral recreating supermodel runway walks, signed with Elite and Embassy Models, and released the 2024 EP Hot Couture with the 200-million-stream hit FASHION.
Broad arrow
Broad arrow (also pheon, crow's foot): a stylized arrowhead charge in English heraldry and the British government property mark, first officially documented in 1330, used by the Board of Ordnance, War Department, and MoD across the Empire.
Broken noses in ancient Egyptian statues
Broken noses on ancient Egyptian statues result mainly from deliberate iconoclasm: Egyptians believed a statue's life force breathed through the nose, so breaking it disabled the image, as in Thutmose III's erasure of Hatshepsut.
Bronze Age of Comic Books
The Bronze Age of Comic Books is the era of American comic book publishing from about 1970 to 1985, between the Silver Age and the Modern Age.
Bronze Head of Queen Mother Idia
The Bronze Head of Queen Mother Idia is a 16th-century cast brass commemorative head from the Kingdom of Benin, made for the ancestral altar of Idia, mother of Oba Esigie.
Bronze Mask with Protruding Eyes
The Bronze Mask with Protruding Eyes (青铜纵目面具) is a large Shang-dynasty bronze mask, 138 cm wide, with cylindrical pupils projecting about 16 cm, unearthed in 1986 at Sanxingdui, Guanghan, Sichuan.
Bronze owl-shaped zun of Fuhao
The bronze owl-shaped zun of Fuhao (妇好鸮尊) is a pair of late Shang dynasty bronze wine vessels cast as standing owls, excavated in 1976 from Fuhao's tomb at Yinxu, Anyang.