Welcome to Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- A comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911
- Includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale
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Luca della Robbia
Luca della Robbia was the head of a long line of Florentine sculptors who created works of tin-glazed terracotta sculpture. His great skill was in giving a previously unknown brightness and fixedness to polychrome decoration, and he gave his figures deep feeling, an intensity of expression, and realism.
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Ernest Cole
Inspired by the American Civil Rights movement, Ernest Cole documented the systematic effects of apartheid on black life in South Africa. He often had to hide his camera and disguise himself in order to document scenes that the authorities hoped to censor.
In this update, Benezit publishes 112 emendations.
Collection Guides
Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.
What's New
Benezit continues to feature new and revised biographies of women artists, as well as updates to articles on top-selling figures in today’s art market.
