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Renaissance and Baroque Art: Background

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Oxford Art Online
Searches four key encyclopedias: Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Includes bibliographies and guides to specific topics.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History

Surveys & Dictionaries

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture. 2018
HumRef N 6370 .Z57 2018 + ebook
Earls. Baroque Art: A Topical Dictionary. HumRef N 6415 .B3 E18 1996
Atlas of the Baroque world.
HumRef N 6415 .B3 A85x 2014
Bohn. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art. 2013
N 6370 .C585 2013 + ebook
(Blackwell Companions to Art History Series)
Baroque in Spain and Portugal and its Antecedents. N 7106 .L4
Gealt. Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-century European Painters. HumRef ND 456 .G43 1993
Maere. Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters. HumRef ND 666 .M326x 1994q. 3 vols.
Dutch drawings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Artists born between 1580 and 1600.
HumRef NC 261 .R54x 1998. 2 vols.
Weller. Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Paintings.
ND 636 .W438 2009
Netherlandish art in the Rijksmuseum. 4 vols.
N 6944 .R55 2000
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam A completely illustrated catalogue
HumRef N 2460 .A54613
Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
e-book and several other print eds. in N 6922 .V492
Bober. Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources. 2010
HumRef NB 85 .B63 2010
Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art. HumRef N 6370 .E53 2000. 2 vols.
Renaissance Art & Architecture. HumRef N 6370 .C32 2004
Earls. Renaissance Art: A Topical Dictionary. N 6370 .E27 1987

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Guides to Writing About Art

Munsterberg. Writing About Art. HumRef N 7467 .M867c 2009 + e-book

Biggs. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. HumRef NX 280 .R68 2010 + e-book

Barnet. A Short Guide to Writing about Art. HumRef N 7476 .B37 2015

Sayre. Writing About Art. HumRef N 7476 .S29 2009

Williams. How to Write About Contemporary Art. HumRef N 7476 .W544x 2014

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