| ARTIST | BORN-DIED | PERIOD | SCHOOL |
| B | BABOCCIO DA PIPERNO, Antonio | (c. 1351-1435) | Early Renaissance | Italian sculptor (Naples) |
| | BABUREN, Dirck van | (c. 1590-1624) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Utrecht) |
| | BACCHIACCA | (1494-1557) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | BACICCIO | (1639-1709) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | BACKER, Jacob Adriaensz. | (1608-1651) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | BACKER, Jacob de | (1555/60-1585/90) | Mannerism | Flemish painter |
| | BACKHUYSEN, Ludolf | (1631-1708) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| | BACON, John | (1740-1799) | Neoclassicism | English sculptor |
| | BADALOCCHIO, Sisto | (1585-c. 1619) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | BAEGERT, Derick | (c. 1440-c. 1515) | Northern Renaissance | German painter (Wesel) |
| | BAELLIEUR, Cornelis de | (1607-1671) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | BAEN, Jan de | (1633-1702) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| | BAGLIONE, Giovanni | (c. 1566-1643) | Baroque | Italian painter (Rome) |
| | BAILLY, David | (1584-1657) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Leiden) |
| | BAILLY, Jacques I | (c. 1634-1679) | Baroque | French miniaturist (Paris) |
| | BAILLY, Jacques II | (c. 1700-1768) | Baroque | French painter (Paris) |
| | BAKHUISEN, Ludolf (see BACKHUYSEN, Ludolf) | (1631-1708) | Baroque | Dutch painter |
| | BALDASSARE da Reggio (see BALDASSARE ESTENSE) | (1443-1504) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Ferrara) |
| | BALDASSARE ESTENSE | (1443-1504) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Ferrara) |
| | BALDINI, Baccio | (1436-1487) | Early Renaissance | Italian graphic artist (Florence) |
| | BALDOVINETTI, Alessio | (c.1425-1499) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Florence) |
| | BALDUCCI, Matteo | (c. 1509-1554) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Umbria) |
| | BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans | (1484/85-1545) | Northern Renaissance | German painter |
| | BALEN, Hendrick van | (1575-1632) | Baroque | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | BALESTRA, Antonio | (1666-1740) | Baroque | Italian painter (Verona) |
| | BALTENS, Peeter | (c. 1527-c. 1584) | Northern Renaissance | Flemish painter (Antwerp) |
| | BALZICO, Alfonso | (1825-1901) | Realism | Italian sculptor |
| | BAMBAIA | (1483-1548) | High Renaissance | Italian sculptor (Milan) |
| | BAMBINI, Nicolň | (1651-1736) | Baroque | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | BAMBOCCIO (see LAER, Pieter van) | (1592/95-1642) | Baroque | Dutch painter (Rome) |
| | BANDINELLI, Baccio | (1488-1560) | High Renaissance | Italian sculptor (Florence) |
| | BANKS, Thomas | (1735-1805) | Neoclassicism | English painter |
| | BARABÁS, Miklós | (1810-1898) | Romanticism | Hungarian painter |
| | BARBARELLI, Giorgio (see GIORGIONE) | (1477-1510) | Early Renaissance | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | BARBARI, Jacopo de' | (c. 1445-1516) | High Renaissance | Italian painter (Venice) |
| | BARBARO, Daniele | (1514-1570) | Mannerism | Italian architect (Venice) |
| | BARBAULT, Jean | (1718-1762) | Baroque | French painter (Rome) |
| | BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco (see GUERCINO) | (1591-1666) | Baroque | Italian painter (Bologna) |
| | BARBIERI, Paolo Antonio | (1603-1649) | Baroque | Italian painter |
| | BARENDSZ., Dirck | (1534-1592) | Mannerism | Dutch painter (Amsterdam) |
| | BARNA DA SIENA | (active mid-14th cent.) | Medieval | Italian painter (Siena) |
| | BARNABA DA MODENA | (active 1361-1383) | Medieval | Italian painter |
| | BAROCCI, Federico Fiori | (1526-1612) | Mannerism | Italian painter (Urbino) |
| | BARONZIO, Giovanni | (active c. 1344-c. 1362) | Medieval | Italian painter (Rimini) |
| | BAROZZI, Giacomo (see VIGNOLA, Giacomo da) | (1507-1573) | High Renaissance | Italian architect (Rome) |
| | BARRA, Didier | (1590-1644) | Baroque | French painter |
| | BARRE, Jean-August | (1811-1896) | Realism | French sculptor (Paris) |
| | BARRE, Jean-Jacques | (1793-1855) | Romanticism | French sculptor (Paris) |
| | BARRERA, Francisco | (1595-1658) | Baroque | Spanish painter (Madrid) |
| | BARTOLINI, Lorenzo | (1777-1850) | Neoclassicism | Italian sculptor |