Bibliography of encyclopedias: art and artists

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This is a listof 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.

Books

• Ashwin, Clive. Encyclopedia of Drawing: Materials, Techniques and Style. North Light, 1983.
• Benezit Dictionary of Artists
• The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp., 1973.
• Chilvers, Ian (30 July 2004). Diccionario del arte del siglo XX (in Spanish). Editorial Complutense. ISBN 978-84-7491-600-3. 
• Chilvers, Ian. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford, 1990.
• Chilvers, Ian and Harold Osborne. Oxford Dictionary of Art. Oxford, 1988.
• Daniel, Howard. Encyclopedia of Themes and Subjects in Painting. Abrams, 1971.
• Elmes, James (1824). A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts. 
• Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. 1810. 
• Encyclopedia of World Art. Publishers Guild, 1983.
• Rodney K. Engen (1985). Dictionary of Victorian wood engravers. Teaneck, N.J. ISBN 978-0-85964-139-5. Retrieved 9 October 2012. 
• Goulart, Ron. The Encyclopedia of American Comics. Facts on File, 1990.
• Gould, John (1838). Biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects, from the earliest ages to the present time: interspersed with original anecdotes. Greenland. 
• Gowing, Lawrence. The Encyclopedia of Visual Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp., 1989.
• Hartmann, Sys (2000). Weilbach - Dansk Kunstnerleksikon. Munksgaard. ISBN 978-87-16-11206-4.  (Danish). A freely accessible online version is available.
• Horn, Maurice. World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. Chelsea House, 1980.
• Horn, Maurice. World Encyclopedia of Comics. Chelsea House, 1976.
• Lang, Harry G.; Meath-Lang, Bonnie (1995). Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29170-8. 
• Joan Marter (20 January 2011). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8. 
• McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan (1994). The Encyclopedia of Australian Art. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1688-9. 
• McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; Childs, Emily McCulloch (2006). McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. McCulloch & McCulloch. ISBN 978-0-522-85317-9. 
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. McGraw-Hill, 1969.
• Müller, Hermann Alexander and Hans W. Singer (1895–1901). Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening. 
• Müller, Hermann Alexander and Hans W. Singer (1906). Nachträge und Berichtigungen (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening. 
• Munro, Eleanor C. (1961). The Golden Encyclopedia of Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Ornament, from Prehistoric Times to the Twentieth Century. Golden Press. 
• Murray, Peter and Linda Murray. Dictionary of Art and Artists. Penguin, 1972.
• Osborne, Harold. Oxford Companion to Art. Oxford, 1970.
• Osborne, Harold. Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. Oxford, 1975.
• Osborne, Harold. Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art. Oxford, 1982.
• Palmer, Frederick. Encyclopedia of Oil Painting: Materials and Techniques. North Light, 1984.
• Piper, David. Random House Dictionary of Art and Artists. Random House, 1990.
• Praeger Dictionary of Art. Praeger, 1971.
• Quick, John (1977). Artists' and Illustrators' Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill. 
• Stevenson, George A. Graphic Arts Encyclopedia. Design Press, 1992.
• Strutt, Joseph (1786). A biographical dictionary: containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time; and a short list of their most esteemed works. ... With several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists. By Joseph Strutt. .... printed by J. Davis, for Robert Faulder. 
• Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists. Thames and Hudson, 1985.
• Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker (1907–1950). Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Künstler von derk Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Leipzig: Seeman. 
• Turner, Jane (1996). The Dictionary of Art. Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN 978-1-884446-00-9. 

Architecture

• Architectural Publication Society (1892). Dictionary of architecture. London: Richards. 
• Packard, Robert T. and Balthazar Korab. Encyclopedia of American Architecture. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
• Planat, Paul Amédée (1888–1892). Encyclopédie de l'architecture et de la construction (in French). Paris: Dujardin. 
• Sturgis, Russell (1901–1902). Dictionary of architecture and building. New York: Macmillan. 
• Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugéne Emmanuel (1854–1868). Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIc au XVIc siècle (in French). Paris: Bance. 

Design

• Byars, Mel; Riley, Terence, ed. (2004): The Design Encylopedia, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 832 pages. ISBN 978-0870700125.
• Morteo, Enrico (2008): Grande Atlante del Design dal 1850 a oggi, Electa - Mondadori, 422 pages. ISBN 978-8837048976. (Italian)
• 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. ISBN 9780743222297.

Photography

• Carroll, John and William Broecker. Encyclopedia of Practical Photography. Amphoto, 1977-1978.
• International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography. Crown, 1984.
• Stroebel, Leslie and Richard D. Zakia. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Focal Press, 1993.

Sculpture

• Boström, Antonia (2003): The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, 3 vols, Routledge, 1,936 pages. ISBN 978-1579582487.
• Dürre, Stefan (2007): Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur: Bildhauer, Epochen, Themen, Techniken, Seeman, 464 pages. ISBN 9783865021014. (German)
• Gunnis, Rupert (1953: later editions 1968 and 2009): Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851
• Hachet, Jean-Charles (2005): Dictionnaire des sculpteurs et fondeurs animaliers de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Argusvalentines, 2 vols, 1,088 pages. ISBN 978-2919769131. (French)
• Mills, John (2005): Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques, paperback, Batsford, 240 pages. ISBN 978-0713489309.

Symbolism

• Drake, Maurice and Wilfred Drake (1916). Saints and their emblems. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 
• Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. Harper & Row, 1979.
• Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Macmillan, 1975.

Bibliography

• Kister, Kenneth F. (1994). Kister's Best Encyclopedias (2nd ed.). Phoenix: Oryx. ISBN 0-89774-744-5.
• Sheehy, Eugene P., ed. (1986). Guide to Reference Books (Tenth ed.). Chicago and London: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0390-8. 

See also

• Bibliography of encyclopedias