Facts and Figures

Specifications:

2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists:
- over 170,000 artists from Antiquity to the present day
- 14 volumes
- 20,608 pages

1999 E. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs:
- over 165,000 artists
- 14 volumes
- 13,440 pages

Content (2006 edition):

Benezit coverage by period

While the Benezit is above all known for its wealth of 19th century artists, it has always striven to document all periods of art history, from Antiquity to the present day, as the chart demonstrates:

* 21st includes all artists born after 1945

Disciplines represented in the Benezit
When Emmanuel Bénézit published the first edition of his ambitious project, he alluded to
four broad disciplines in the title of the dictionary: painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers. Since then, the Benezit has evolved to reflect the ever-widening scope of the visual arts and extends its scholarship to a great many disciplines. Here are some examples of artists who find their place in the Benezit:

discipline	n°of entries in the Benezit	discipline	n°of entries in the Benezit
assemblage artists	419	installation artists	1059
calligraphers	307	intervention artists	18
caricaturists	400	illustrators	5506
ceramicists	303	mosaicists	233
collage artists	731	video artists	268
enameller	447	performance artists	291
environmental artists	124	photomontage artists	56
Happenings artists	21	poster artists	319

Not just a biographical dictionary…
The Benezit is the first port of call for researchers looking for biographical details on a given artist. In addition, it provides a weath of practical information: museographical listings, bibliographies, and auction records that document the movements in prices of an artist's work. Here are some figures that demonstrate the scope of these listings:

- approx 10,000 museums represented

- over 31,000 bibliographical references

- hundreds of thousands of auction records, from 1701 to 2005.