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Since its first publication in 1911, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists has become one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists’ biographies. Available online for the first time through the acclaimed Oxford Art Online platform, Benezit can be searched alongside lauded resources including Grove Art Online and is expanding with new entries and a suite of thematic guides for use in the classroom, providing art historians, curators, dealers, collectors, and students with an unrivalled starting point for art research. Revered for its global scope and its excellent coverage of European artists, Benezit is distinguished by its coverage of lesser-known artists, images of artists’ signatures, historical auction records, and lists of museum holdings.
Nearly 170,000 entries from Claude Monet to Marina Abramovic make Benezit an essential resource for researchers across all aspects of visual culture. Benezit includes the biographies of artists from around the globe and working in a variety of media—from painters and sculptors to calligraphers, printmakers, illustrators, installation artists, and performance artists— providing users with content on both traditional practices and new media. More than a biographical dictionary, Benezit features one of the largest digital collections of artists’ signatures, monograms, and stamps of sale offering essential visual support for art history scholarship and providing access to images not available anywhere else online. These one-of-a-kind images are complimented by thousands of museum holdings lists, bibliographies, exhibition histories, and auction records providing an at-a-glance summary of an artist’s life and works in one resource.
This online edition and subsequent updates will expand Benezit’s core content, the landmark 2006 14-volume English print edition, to reflect the ever-widening, increasingly global scope of the visual arts. While Benezit is known above all for its wealth of biographies of 19th- century artists, regular updates and additions will increase content covering all periods of art history, from antiquity to the present day. Thematic guides and other learning tools will be added to aid research at all levels.
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