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Bronze rhinoceros zun
The bronze rhinoceros zun is a Western Han dynasty bronze wine vessel shaped as a rhinoceros, excavated in 1963 near Xingping, Shaanxi, and held in the National Museum of China.
Bronze Sacred Tree of Sanxingdui
The Bronze Sacred Tree of Sanxingdui (青铜神树) is a late Shang bronze ritual tree from Sichuan, China; the restored No. 1 tree stands 3.96 meters tall.
Bronze Standing Figure of Sanxingdui
This late Shang period bronze statue, known as the "King of World Bronze Statues," was excavated in 1986 from the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan, China.
Bronze Tiger
Bronze Tiger, real name Ben Turner, is a DC Comics martial artist created by Dennis O'Neil and Jim Berry in the 1974 novel Dragon's Fists, debuting in Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #1 (1975); brainwashed by the League of Assassins, later a Suicide Squad field leader who beat Batman.
Brooch
A brooch is an ornamental piece of jewelry fastened to a garment by a hinged pin, worn since the Bronze Age; clasp types help date antique pieces.
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is an American contemporary artist in sculpture, video, neon, and performance, known for using his own body and for having no single signature style.
Bruce Onobrakpeya
Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932, Agbarha-Otor, Nigeria) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter, and sculptor who co-founded the Zaria Art Society and invented techniques including plastograph and bronzed lino relief.
Bruce Rogers
Bruce Rogers (1870–1957) was an American typographer and book designer, regarded as the leading American book designer of his era, who created the Centaur typeface.
Bruce Weber (photographer)
Bruce Weber (born 1946, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an American fashion photographer and filmmaker, not the Seattle pet photographer of the same name, known for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren campaigns and the Oscar-nominated film Let's Get Lost.
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was an Italian artist, designer, and writer active in painting, industrial design, and children's publishing, and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian art and design.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O'Malley (born c. 1979) is a Canadian cartoonist, creator of the six-volume Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, adapted into Edgar Wright's 2010 film and Netflix's 2023 anime, plus Lost at Sea, Seconds, and Snotgirl.
Buddha from Sarnath
The Buddha from Sarnath refers to Gupta-period Buddha images carved in pale Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi from the 4th to 6th century CE.
Buddha in art
Buddha in art: the anthropomorphic Buddha image, first created under the Kushans at Gandhara and Mathura in the 1st-3rd centuries CE, replacing earlier aniconic symbols; its mudras, lakshanas, Gupta synthesis, and transmission across Asia.
Buddha of Mendut
The Buddha of Mendut is a monumental 9th-century andesite statue in Candi Mendut, Central Java, Indonesia, seated in the teaching gesture and flanked by two bodhisattvas.
Buddha of Sarnath
The Buddha of Sarnath is a seated Gupta-period image of Gautama Buddha preaching his first sermon, carved in Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi in the 5th century CE.
Buddhist art
Buddhist art: religious sculpture, painting, and architecture from India, also called Buddhist iconography, spread by trade routes to East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Tibet; defined by the Buddha image's emergence at Gandhara and Mathura and regional styles such as Menri.
Buddhist sculpture of the Asuka period
Buddhist sculpture of the Asuka period (飛鳥仏教彫刻) is the earliest Buddhist statuary made in Japan, shaped by Chinese and Korean styles, with Tori-busshi's 623 Hōryūji Shaka Triad as its anchor work.
Bùi Xuân Phái
Bùi Xuân Phái (1920–1988) was a Vietnamese painter, one of the "four pillars" of modern Vietnamese art, best known for his oil paintings of Hanoi's Old Quarter, the "Phố Phái" style.
Bullseye (Marvel Comics)
Bullseye (Lester; Benjamin Poindexter in TV continuity), Marvel Comics assassin and Daredevil enemy, debuted in Daredevil #131 (March 1976) by Marv Wolfman and John Romita Sr.; kills with any thrown object, served Osborn's Dark Avengers as Hawkeye, and appears in Netflix Daredevil and Born Again.
Bulul
A bulul, also spelled bulol, is a carved wooden figure made by the Ifugao people of northern Luzon, Philippines, to guard rice granaries and assure good harvests.
Bundi school
The Bundi school is a Rajput painting tradition of princely Bundi in southeastern Rajasthan, active from the late sixteenth to the late nineteenth century and admired for its lush landscapes.
Bunjin
Bunjin (文人), meaning literati, were Japanese amateurs of Chinese-style poetry, calligraphy, and painting who formed a distinctive subculture from the mid-Edo period into the twentieth century.
Bunny Yeager
Bunny Yeager (Linnea Eleanor Yeager, 1929–2014) was an American photographer and former pin-up model, famous for her 1954 Bettie Page shoots, Playboy centerfolds, Ursula Andress Dr. No stills, and pioneering self-portraits.
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images, called man-hpaya (မန်ဘုရား) in Burmese, are hollow Buddha sculptures built up in cloth and lacquer over a clay core, established in Myanmar by the eighteenth century.
Bury Bible
The Bury Bible is a large illuminated Latin Bible made around 1130–1135 for the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, and now held in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Bust of Costanza Bonarelli
The Bust of Costanza Bonarelli is a marble portrait bust by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, made around 1637 as a private portrait of his lover and now in Florence's Bargello.
Bust of Hatshepsut
The Bust of Hatshepsut is a portrait sculpture of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, produced for her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes around 1473–1458 BCE.
Bust of Louis XIV
The Bust of Louis XIV is a white marble portrait of King Louis XIV by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, sculpted in Paris in 1665 and held at the Palace of Versailles.
Buster Brown
Buster Brown: American comic strip by Richard F. Outcault, debuting in the New York Herald May 4, 1902, starring the mischievous wealthy boy Buster, his dog Tige, and Mary Jane; famous for shoe-brand merchandising and newspaper rights battles.
Buster Sword
Buster Sword (バスターソード), the oversized broadsword of Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII (1997), passed down from Angeal Hewley to Zack Fair; depicted over five feet long, a steel version would weigh around 120-156 kg.