Art History

The Grove encyclopedia of medieval art and architecture / editor in chief, Colum P. Hourihane. Scholarly articles on Medieval art, each followed by a bibliography.

Oxford Art Online Known as Grove Art Online, formerly in print as The Dictionary of Art (N31 .D5 1996t, 33 vols. Stauffer Library - Compact Shelving), now incorporated in Oxford Art Online.

Oxford Reference Online - Art and Architecture
Art and architecture component of more than 120 full-text Oxford University Press dictionaries, companions, and subject reference books. Browse or search for keywords within a subject area or within a specific book.

Allgemeines Künst[l]erlexikon. Bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z = The artists of the world. Bio-bibliographical index A-Z N40 .A629 2007 v. 1-12 (Art Collection - non-circulating). Biographies and bibliographies of artists worldwide, from antiquity to today.

Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kuenstler des xx. Jahrhunderts (Hans Vollmer)
N40 .V92 1953-62 v. 1-6 (Art Collection - non-circulating). Continues coverage of artists in 20th century.

Bloomsbury Design Library Includes:

• Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design: global coverage from 1800 to the present by international design scholars and historians from museums and exhibitions, art and design schools, journals and department stores. Covers graphic, textile, furniture, metal, ceramic, fashion, stage and film, and vehicle and product design, and also national histories of design and key design movements.
• Encyclopedia of East Asian Design: Coverage of arts and crafts, interior, graphic, and design objects for domestic, regional, and global consumption across regional and national histories and geographies.
• World History of Design: global design from prehistory to the end of the Second World War. Includes: earliest cave art and human tools; examples of visual and material culture from beginnings of civilization, to the Industrial Revolution, to WWII.

Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers N40 .B9 1964 (Art Collection non-circulating): The standard universal English dictionary of artists.

CAMEO, Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online. Database of more than 10,000 contemporary and historical materials searchable by chemical name, synonym, registry number and keyword.

Contemporary artists (Naylor) N6490 .C6567 1989 (SL Reference Collection; 1977 ed. in Art Collection). Single volume source on approximately 1700 artists; lists of works; some illustrations.

Contemporary women artists (Hillstrom) N8354 .C66 1999 (SL Reference Collection)

Dictionary of art historians. A free, privately funded biographical dictionary of historians of Western art written and maintained by scholars for the benefit of the public. Associated with the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies of Duke University since January of 2010, sponsored since 2016 by the Wired! Lab for digital art history & visual culture, and redesigned in 2018.

Dictionary of women artists (Gaze) N8354 .D53 1997 2 vols. (SL Reference Collection)

Dictionary of women artists : an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900 (Petteys) N43 P47 1985 (Art Collection non-circulating)

Dictionary of women in religious art (Apostolos-Cappadona). N7793 .W65 A66 1998 (SL Reference Collection)

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays (Benezit)
N40 .B47 1999 14 vols. (Art Collection non-circulating)/ After Thieme-Becker, the most useful dictionary of artists.

Encyclopedia of world art. N31.E567. Published 1958-78. 17 vols. (Art Collection): International, ancient to modern. Survey articles and bibliographies, scholarly. Many illustrative plates.

Grove encyclopedia of medieval art and architecture. All aspects of art and architecture from Medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century.

The HarperCollins dictionary of art terms and techniques (Ralph Mayer ; rev. Steven Sheehan). N33 .M37 1991 2nd ed. (Art Collection)

International dictionary of art and artists. N31 .I57 1990t 2 v. (Art Collection non-circulating). This work covers the 13th-20th centuries.

International handbooks of museum studies. Multi-volume reference work in four volumes of Theory, Practice, Media and Transformation. Print in library, and e-books online

Kindlers Malerei Lexicon. ND30 .K54 6 vols. (Art Collection). Brief biographies of painters; comprehensive; many coloured illustrations.

Thieme-Becker Kunstlerlexikon. N40 .T43. Published 1907-50. 37 vols. (Art Collection)

Full title is: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler...by U. Thieme and F. Becker. International, ancient to modern times. Brief biographies, scholarly, comprehensive, especially good for obscure artists. Lists of artists' works with dates. No illustrations. Supplemented by:

Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori ...(Vasari). N6922 .V3. Several editions; multi-volumes. (Art Collection). Originally published ca. 1550 and 1568. Includes biographies of Italian Renaissance artists. Italian; English translations.