This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of art and artists in any language. Entries are in the English language unless stated as otherwise.
Ashwin, Clive. Encyclopedia of Drawing: Materials, Techniques and Style. North Light, 1983.[2]
Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: A guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present. Abbeville Press, 1997. ISBN0789203650.[1]
Bahn, Paul G. The new Penguin dictionary of archaeology. Penguin, 2004. ISBN0140514473.[1]
Ballast, David Kent. The encyclopedia of associations and information sources for architects, designers, and engineers. Sharpe Professional, 1998. ISBN0765600358.[1]
Berman, Esmé. Art and artists of South Africa: An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters, sculptors and graphic artists since 1875. Southern Books, 1996. ISBN1868123456.[1]
Brigstocke, Hugh. The Oxford companion to western art. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN0198662033.[1]
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp., 1973.[4]
Cahill, James, Osvald Sirén, Ellen Johnston Laing. An index of early Chinese painters and paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan. University of California Press, 1980. ISBN0520035763.[1][3]
Cancik, Hubert, Helmuth Schneider, Christine F. Salazar, David E. Orton. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Brill, 2002–. ISBN9004122591.[1]
Chilvers, Ian. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford, 1990.[5]
Chilvers, Ian. The Oxford dictionary of art. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN0198604769.[1]
Chilvers, Ian and Harold Osborne. Oxford Dictionary of Art. Oxford, 1988.[2][5]
Daniel, Howard. Encyclopedia of Themes and Subjects in Painting. Abrams, 1971.[4]
Davenport, R. J., Gordon's Art Reference, Inc. Davenport's art reference and price guide. Gordon's Art Reference, Inc., 1984–. ISSN 1540-1553.[1]
Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A biographical dictionary. Sage Books, [1974]–c1985. ISBN0804006075.[1]
DeMello, Margo. Encyclopedia of body adornment. Greenwood Press, 2007. ISBN9780313336959.[1]
Dunford, Penny. A biographical dictionary of women artists in Europe and America since 1850. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN0812282302.[1][3]
Falk, Peter H., Audrey M. Lewis, Georgia Kuchen. Who was who in American art, 1564–1975: 400 years of artists in America. Sound View Press, 1999. ISBN0932087558.[1][3]
Farris, Phoebe. Women artists of color: A bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN0313303746.[1]
Fielding, Mantle, Glenn B. Opitz. Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers. Apollo, 1986. ISBN0938290045.[1][3]
Galería de Arte Nacional (Venezuela). Diccionario biográfico de las artes visuales en Venezuela. Fundación Galería de Arte Nacional, 2005. ISBN9806420187.[3][7]
Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints: A complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet. Thames & Hudson, 2004. ISBN0500284806.[1]
Gaze, Delia, Maja Mihajlovic, Leanda Shrimpton. Dictionary of women artists. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. ISBN1884964214.[1][3]
Getty Research Institute. Union list of artist names online. Getty Research Institute. Available online here.[3]
Giorgi, Rosa, Stefano Zuffi. Saints in art. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. ISBN0892367172.[1]
Goldman, Paul. Looking at prints, drawings, and watercolours: A guide to technical terms. British Museum Press, 2006. ISBN9780892368716.[1]
Goldwater, Robert John, Marco Treves. Artists on art: From the 14th to the 20th century. J. Murray, 1976. ISBN0719533120.[1]
Goulart, Ron. The Encyclopedia of American Comics. Facts on File, 1990.[4]
Heller, Jules and Nancy Heller. North American women artists of the twentieth century: A biographical dictionary. Garland, 1995. ISBN0824060490.[1][3]
Heller, Nancy G. Women artists: An illustrated history. Abbeville Press, 2003. ISBN0789207680.[1]
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, Kevin Hillstrom, Lucy R. Lippard. Contemporary women artists. St. James Press, 1999. ISBN1558623728.[1]
Horn, Maurice. Contemporary graphic artists: A biographical, bibliographical, and critical guide to current illustrators, animators, cartoonists, designers, and other graphic artists. Gale Research, 1986–. ISBN0810321890.[1][3]
Horn, Maurice. World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. Chelsea House, 1980.[4]
Horn, Maurice. World Encyclopedia of Comics. Chelsea House, 1976.[4]
Hornblower, Simon, Antony Spawforth. The Oxford classical dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN0198606419.[1]
Houfe, Simon. The dictionary of 19th century British book illustrators and caricaturists. Antique Collectors' Club, 1996. ISBN1851491937.[1][3]
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. McGraw-Hill, 1969.[2]
Meissner, Günter, K. G. Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. K. G. Saur, 1992–. ISBN359822740X. (German)[1][3]
Meyer, George H., George H. Meyer, Jr., Katherine P. White, Museum of American Folk Art. Folk artists biographical index. Gale Research, 1987. ISBN0810321459.[3]
Milner, John, Antique Collector's Club. A dictionary of Russian and Soviet artists, 1420–1970. Antique Collectors' Club, 1993. ISBN1851491821.[1][3]
Müller, Hermann Alexander and Hans W. Singer (1895–1901). Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening.[9]
Müller, Hermann Alexander and Hans W. Singer (1906). Nachträge und Berichtigungen (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening.[9]
Quick, John (1977). Artists' and Illustrators' Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill.[10]
Reid, Jane Davidson and Chris Rohman. The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300–1990s. Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN0195049985.[1]
Riggs, Thomas, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. St. James guide to black artists. St. James Press, 1997. ISBN1558622209.[1][3]
Riggs, Thomas, Association of Hispanic Arts (New York). St. James guide to Hispanic artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American artists. St. James Press, 2002. ISBN1558624708.[1][3]
Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Macmillan, 1975.[4]
Summers, Claude J. The queer encyclopedia of the visual arts. Cleis Press, 2004. ISBN1573441910.[1]
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists. Thames and Hudson, 1985.[5]
Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker (1907–1950). Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Künstler von derk Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Leipzig: Seeman.[1][11]
Racinet, August (1988). Historical Encyclopedia of Costume. New York: Facts on File. ISBN978-0-8160-1976-2.[20]
Sichel, Marion (1977–1978). Costume Reference. Plays, Inc.[20]
Wilcox, Turner (1968). Dictionary of Costume. Scribner's.[20]
Yarwood, Doreen (1988) [1978, Scribner's]. The Encyclopedia of World Costume. Outlet Book Company.[20]
Design
Byars, Mel (2004): The Design Encyclopedia, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 832 pages. ISBN978-0870700125.
Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. rev. ed., Viking, 1990.[19]
Jervis, Simon. Facts on File Dictionary of Design and Designers. Facts on File, 1984.[19]
Livingston, Alan, Isabella Livingston. The Thames and Hudson dictionary of graphic design and designers. Thames & Hudson, 2003. ISBN0500203539.[1]
Morteo, Enrico (2008): Grande Atlante del Design dal 1850 a oggi, Electa – Mondadori, 422 pages. ISBN978-8837048976. (in Italian)
Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. Oxford, 1975.[19]
Pendergast, Sara. Contemporary designers. St. James Press, 1997. ISBN1558621849.[1][3]
Pile, John. Dictionary of 20th-Century Design. Facts on File, 1990.[19]
Riley, Noël, Bayer, Patricia (2003): The Elements of Design: a practical encyclopedia of the decorative arts from the Renaissance to the present, Free Press, 544 pages. ISBN9780743222297.
Photography
Auer, Michèle, Michel Auer. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours = Photographers encyclopaedia international 1839 to the present. (in English and French). Editions Camera obscura, 1985. ISBN2903671044.[1]
Auer, Michel, Michèle, Ides et calendes. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes des débuts à nos jours = Photographers encyclopedia international from its beginnings to the present. Ides et calendes, 1997. ISBN2825801267.[1]
Browne, Turner, Elaine Partnow. Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists and innovators. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan, 1983. ISBN0025175009.[1][3]
Carroll, John and William Broecker. Encyclopedia of Practical Photography. Amphoto, 1977–1978.[2][5]
International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography. Crown, 1984.[5]
Evans, Martin Marix, Amanda Hopkinson, Andrei Baskakov. Contemporary photographers. St. James Press, 1995. ISBN1558621903.[1][3]
Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. ISBN0415972353.[1]
Mautz, Carl. Biographies of western photographers: A reference guide to photographers working in the 19th century American West. Carl Mautz, 1997. ISBN0962194077.[1]
Peres, Michael R. The Focal encyclopedia of photography: Digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. Elsevier/Focal Press, 2007. ISBN9780240807409.[1]
Stroebel, Leslie and Richard D. Zakia. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Focal Press, 1993.[2][5]
Warren, Lynne. Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography. Routledge, 2006. ISBN1579583938.[1]
Willis-Thomas, Deborah. An illustrated bio-bibliography of black photographers, 1940–1988. Garland, 1989. ISBN082408389X.[1][3]
Sculpture
Beaulieu, Michèle, Victor Beyer. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs français du moyen age. Picard, 1992. ISBN2708404245.[1][3]
Boström, Antonia (2003): The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, 3 vols, Routledge, 1,936 pages. ISBN978-1579582487.
Dürre, Stefan (2007): Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur: Bildhauer, Epochen, Themen, Techniken, Seeman, 464 pages. ISBN9783865021014. (in German)
Hachet, Jean-Charles (2005): Dictionnaire des sculpteurs et fondeurs animaliers de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Argusvalentines, 2 vols, 1,088 pages. ISBN978-2919769131. (in French)
Mills, John (2005): Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques, paperback, Batsford, 240 pages. ISBN978-0713489309.[2]
Opitz, Glenn B. Dictionary of American sculptors: 18th century to the present, illustrated with over 200 photographs. Apollo, 1984. ISBN0938290037.[1]
Symbolism
Drake, Maurice and Wilfred Drake (1916). Saints and their emblems. Philadelphia: Lippincott.[21]
Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. Harper & Row, 1979.[4]
Roberts, Helene E. Encyclopedia of comparative iconography: Themes depicted in works of art. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. ISBN1579580092.[1]
Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical saints art index: A locator of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, icons, frescoes, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts, and engravings, created from the 4th century to 1950, with a directory of the institutions holding them. McFarland, 1994. ISBN0899509428.[1]
Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Macmillan, 1975.[4]
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