Biography
Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America by ISBN: 9004153926Collection of essays about the visual representation of woman in early modern Latin America, documenting the social and cultural construction and definition of female identity at the time. Artists in this period were collectively aware of a vocabulary of gender that could be tailored to deliver varying messages about the position of women in vice regal culture and society.Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado by
Call Number: Art Reference N3450.E53 2006 t.1-6Publication Date: 2006With contributions from 130 international scholars, this encyclopedia is devoted not only to the Prado itself but also the artists in the permanent collection.
Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters by Call Number: Art Reference ND669.F5 M34 1994 vol. 1-3ISBN: 2804118584Publication Date: 1994Includes artists' biographies and bibliographies with selected list of works.
Painting of the Golden Age: A biographical dictionary of seventeenth-century European painters by Call Number: Art Reference ND456.G43 1993ISBN: 0313243107Publication Date: 1993Biographies of approximately 300 artists, each followed by a list of "Additional Works" and a bibliography.
Contemporary biography
The Lives of the Artists by Call Number: Art Library N6922 .V2213 1998 (2 copies)ISBN: 019283410XThese biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated.
The Lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters by Call Number: Art Library ND625.M313 1994 vol. 1-6Biographies of Northern European painters; many written during their lifetimes.
