ENCYCLOPEDIAS and DICTIONARIES

• General Sources
• Classical
• Byzantine
• Medieval
• Architecture
• American
• Modern and Contemporary
• Naive and Folk Art
• Buddhist
• Women Artists
• Language Dictionaries for Art Terms

General Sources

• Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan, 1996.
• Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw Hill, 1948. Supp. 1983, 1986.
• Chilvers, Ian, and Harold Osborne

Oxford Dictionary of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1997.
• Words of Art (Art Criticism Glossary)
• Pierce, James Smith

From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.
• Kaltenbach, Gustave E.

Dictionary of Pronunciation of Artists' Names. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.
• McConkey, Wilfred

Klee As In Clay: A Pronunciation Guide. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press, 1986.
• Liungman, Carl G.

Dictionary of Symbols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991.
• Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms

An online version of the Liungman text above.

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Classical

• Bandinelli, Ranuccio

Enciclopedia dell'arte antica.... Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1958.
Covers prehistory to A.D.500.
• Pauly, August Friedrich von

Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike. Stuttgart: Alfred Druckenmuller, 1964.
• Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. by M. Cary, et.al. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

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Byzantine

• Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Ed. by Alexander P. Kazhdan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1966 +.

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Medieval

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. by Joseph R. Strayer. New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1982.
• Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale. Rome: Istituto della enciclopedia Italiani, 1991 +.

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Architecture

• Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. 2nd ed. Ed. by Cyril M. Harris. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Ed. by Paul Oliver. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (3 vol.)
• Historic Architecture Sourcebook. Ed. by Cyril M. Harris. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.

This is a much slimmer volume than the one above, but it has more and better illustrations, although the number of definitions is greater in the later text.
• Glossarium Artis. Munich: K.G. Saur.

Each of the nine volumes is a glossary of terms for a single specialized building type.

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American Art

• Baigell, Matthew

Dictionary of American Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

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Modern and Contemporary Art

• Atkins, Robert

Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords. New York: Abbeville, 1990.
• Atkins, Robert

ArtSpoke; A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, 1848-1944. New York: Abbeville, 1993.
• Bell, Doris

Contemporary Art Trends 1960-1980: A Guide to Sources. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1981.
• Patin, Thomas, and Jennifer McLerran

Artwords: A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

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Naive and Folk Art

• Bihalji-Merin, Oto, and Nebojsa-Bato Tomasevic

World Encyclopedia of Naive Art: One Hundred Years of Naive Art. Scranton: Scala/P. Wilson, 1988.
• Rosenak, Chuck, and Jan Rosenak

Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists. New York: Abbeville, 1990.

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Buddhism

• Bunce, Frederick W.

An Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Dieties, Demigods, Godlings, Saints and Demons. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 1994.

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Women Artists

• Dictionary of Women Artists. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.

Covers the middle ages to present and is international in scope.

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Language Dictionaries for Art Terms

• Apelt, Mary L.

German-English Dictionary: Art History--Archaeology. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1982.
See also English-German Dictionary: Art History-- Archaeology by the same author.
• Reau, Louis

Dictionnaire polyglotte des termes d'art et d'archeologie.

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