The Dictionary of Artists' Models has been conceived as the first extensive reference work to identify and contextualize the lives and art history of individual artist's models. Its aim is to provide a much-needed body of research that can serve both as a reference tool and also as a springboard for further investigation of this frequently neglected subject. The Dictionary provides information on some 200 artists' models, from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a short biography, a selected list of works in which the model appears, with location, a list of further reading, and a signed interpretive essay.
Each essay includes information about the model's life, the artists that they sat for, and discusses their specific contribution to the artist's work. These essays, on models as diverse Costanza della Sommaia Doni, Cadamour, and Elizabeth Hollander, and written by experts in their field, will give the reader a richer understanding of the model's relevance to art historical study.
Introductory essays focus on themes such as the experience of modeling, the model in literature, and the model as artist. The Dictionary includes an Appendix that gives brief biographical details of lesser-known models, and an extensive index of artists and works.
The Dictionary of Artists' Models will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.
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