Biographical dictionaries of artists

series of artist biographies by Giorgio Vasari

SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland is an online encyclopedia of historical and contemporary art in Switzerland. SIKART is published by the , which is headquartered in Zurich.

' 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

book by Cornelis de Bie

critical lexicon of artists

3-volume dictionary of artists from the Netherlands by Arnold Houbraken; published 1718, 1719, and (posthumously) 1721

Comprehensive dictionary of art by Sandrart published in the late 17th-century

anonymous author of the Codice Magliabechiano or Magliabechiano, a manuscript with 128 pages of text, probably from the 1530s and 1540s

four voulumes Dictionary of artists from the Netherlands by Jean-Baptiste Descamps