Authoritative articles on poets, playwrights, mythology, literary movements, artists, musicians, etc

Contains 19,088 articles covering literature, art, music, mythology, history, curiosa, biographical data, etc. Arranged alphabetically with convenient cross references. (Publisher)

An illustrated reference guide to the symbolic meanings of figures, objects, settings, and colors that appear in Western painting and sculpture, focusing on biblical subjects from the early Christian period, and the mythological subjects depicted from the Renaissance and beyond.

"What exactly is Neo-Expressionism? The part of a city known as the acropolis? Or the painting technique called gouache? In this authoritative and concise dictionary, more than 2000 entries and 375 illustrations embrace the vast vocabulary of painting and sculpture, architecture and photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts. The geographical spread is global; the chronological range takes in both Helladic art from Bronze Age Greece and...