Artists

Bloch, Martin

Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and film. He began his professional writing career immediately after graduation from high school, aged 17. He is best known as the writer of the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the 1960 film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while he started emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he later specialized in crime and horror stories, often emphasizing psychological aspects of the characters within. Bloch was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter and a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. He won the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker...

Block, Herbert Lawrence

Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, and 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other honors.

Blocklandt, Anthonie van

Bloemaert, Abraham

Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving. He initially worked in the style of the "Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style in line with the new Baroque style that was then developing. He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes. He was an important teacher, training most of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.

Bloemaert, Cornelis

Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch painter and engraver, who after training in the Dutch Republic worked most of his career in Rome. His workshop in Rome played an important role in spreading Italian art throughout Europe and attracted many young engravers from abroad.

Bloemaert, Frederick

Frederik Bloemaert (c. 1614 – 11 June 1690) was a Dutch printmaker and draftsman. Bloemart was born and died in Utrecht. He was the youngest son of Abraham Bloemaert and distinguished himself as an engraver. He learned the art from his father, and was chiefly occupied in engraving after his designs. His principal work was a drawing book, containing 173 plates, engraved from the designs of his father. He also executed a few plates entirely with the graver. His prints are sometimes signed A. Bloem. inv. F. B. filius fecit, and sometimes F. B. The following are principally after his father's designs: Twelve of the Archbishops and Bishops of Utrecht, two of which are by Corn. Bloemart. (one pictured) Thomas a Kempis. St. Francis in a Hermitage. The Body of Leander on the sea-shore. A set of sixteen figures of Men and Women; marked F. B. fec. A set of thirty, of Beggars; on the title is inscribed Nudus inops mutilus, F. B. fec. The Five Senses. The Four Seasons. Twenty Landscapes; F. B. filius fecit et exc. A Landscape, with a Pigeon-house. Fourteen of Animals and Birds; entitled Verscheyde Besten und Vogelen. Four of Cock-fighting; De Hanabijters.

Bloemen, Pieter van

Blondeau, Jacques

Jacques Blondeau (alternative names: Jacomo Blondel, Hansje Blondeau, Jacobus Blondeau, Jean Jacques Blondeau, Jacques Blondel and nickname: Weyman) (Antwerp, 9 May 1655 – Rome, 1698) was a Flemish Baroque engraver who after training in Antwerp spent most of his career in the Papal States.

Blondel, Georges François

Blondel, Merry-Joseph

Blonkenfeld, Henry

Bloom and Ed Hill (MANUAL), Suzanne