Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
1708 – 1787
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni or Battoni was an Italian painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and nascent Neoclassicism. His early success was as a painter of religious and mythological works, but he is now fa[......]
Jacopo Bassano
1515 – 1592
Jacopo Bassano (also known as Giacomo da Ponte) was an Italian High Renaissance painter of Venetian school, who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.
His father Francesco Bassano the Elder was a “peasa[......]
Evaristo Baschenis
1607 – 1677
Evaristo Baschenis was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo.
He was born to a family of artists, and is best known for still lives, most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain h[......]
Fra Bartolommeo Baccio della Porta
1472 -1517
Fra Bartolommeo (Fra Bartolo- mmeo di Paghola del Fartorino), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian, Florentine High Renaissance painter of religious subjects. He was a member of the Dominican Order.
Starting from 1483, he appren[......]
James Barry
1741-1806
James Barry was Irish Neo -classical painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled “The Progress of Human Culture” in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters wor[......]
Federico Barocci
1528-1612
Federico Barocci was an Italian painter and printmaker of Baroque / Mannerist Era. He was active in Counter-Reformation or proto-Baroque. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work fills an oft-overlooked period of art; while [......]
Giacomo Balla
1871 – 1958
Giacomo Balla an Italian Futurist painter was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. He was the son of an industrial chemist. As a child Giacomo Balla studied music.
By age twenty his interest in art was such that he decided to study painting at[......]
Hendrik van Balen
1575 – 1632
Hendrik van Balen was a Flemish Baroque Era painter and stained-glass designer. He was born and died in Antwerp.
Van Balen was well-educated and encouraged by his father who was a merchant of oil, candles and groceries. He studied art either while tra[......]
Alessio Baldovinetti
1425-1499
Alesso Baldovinetti, or Alessio Baldovinetti, was a Italian, Florentine Early Renaissance Painter.
Alessio was though seldom innovative, exemplified the careful modeling of form and the accurate depiction of light characteristic of the most progressive styl[......]
David Bailly
1584 – 1657
David Bailly is Dutch baroque painter. He was the son of a Flemish immigrant, calligrapher and fencing master, Peter Bailly. David was pupil of his father and the copper engraver Jacques de Gheyn. He first apprenticed to a local painter in.
David Bailly st[......]