Visual Arts — Tier 3 Catalogs

Encyclopedic reference catalogs behind the Tier 1 surveys of the Visual Arts library — the enumerated inventory layer (the artists, the movements).

Catalogs in this folder

• artists-catalog — ~200 major visual artists, organized chronologically and by tradition (ancient → Renaissance → Baroque → 18th–19th c. → modern → postwar/contemporary → beyond the Western canon), each with dates, nationality/medium, and key works. The prosopographical companion to the chronological Tier-1 surveys.
• art-movements-and-isms-catalog — ~90 movements, styles, and -isms from the ancient period styles through the contemporary, each with dates, center, key characteristics, and key figures. The conceptual companion to the artists catalog.

Adjacent

• Visual Arts library index (Tier 1 + Tier 2)
• Iconography & the methods of art history — the Tier-2 method behind reading and attributing the works the catalogs list