Category
page 1Art history books
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
series of artist biographies by Giorgio Vasari
The Story of Art
book by Ernst Gombrich
Schilder-boeck
' or ' is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into English as 'The Book of Painters' or 'The Book of (or on) Painting' and sometimes as 'The Book on Picturing'. consists of six parts and is considered one of the principal sources on the history of art and art theory in the 15th and 16th century Low Countries. The book was very well received and sold well. Karel van Mander died two years after its publica
Het Gulden Cabinet
book by Cornelis de Bie
Sexual Personae
1990 essay by Camille Paglia
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
critical lexicon of artists
Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste
Comprehensive dictionary of art by Sandrart published in the late 17th-century
De pictura
work by Leon Battista Alberti
The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters
3-volume dictionary of artists from the Netherlands by Arnold Houbraken; published 1718, 1719, and (posthumously) 1721
Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters
four voulumes Dictionary of artists from the Netherlands by Jean-Baptiste Descamps
The Stones of Venice
book by John Ruskin
Dictionary of Women Artists
2-volume biographical dictionary about 600 women artists by Delia Gaze