Artists

Brambilla, Ambrogio

Brambilla, Marco

Brambilla, the Younger, Francesco

Francesco Brambilla (16th century) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period, active in Milan, in the decoration of its massive gothic Cathedral. His daughter, Margherita, was married to Pietro Antonio Daverio, one of his pupils.

Bramer, Leonard

Bramley, Peter

Bramson, Stern J.

208996 Achlys (provisional designation 2003 AZ84) is a large trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune. It was discovered on 13 January 2003 by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory. Achlys has an elongated shape that is believed to be distorted by its rapid 6.8-hour rotation. Its diameter is estimated to be roughly 940 km (580 mi) across its equator to 490 km (300 mi) across its poles. After Pluto and Orcus, Achlys is the third largest member of the plutinos—a population of Kuiper belt objects following a 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune, in which they complete two orbits for every three orbits completed by Neptune. The surface of Achlys is dark gray and mostly composed of water ice. Observations of stellar occultations show that Achlys's surface bears a chasm or depression between 8 and 13 km (5.0 and 8.1 mi) deep, similar to those seen on Pluto and its moon Charon. Achlys has one known moon that is about 80 km (50 mi) in diameter. The mass and density of Achlys has not been measured, though predictions based on its shape and rotation suggest that it has a density lower than that of water ice.

Bram van Velde

Brâncuși, Constantin

Constantin Brâncuși (Romanian: [konstanˈtin brɨŋˈkuʃʲ] ; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and others. However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.

Brandegee, Robert Bolling

Brandfield, D.

Brandfield, Dayton

Brand, Friedrich August