Delia Dorothy Gaze FSA (born March 1951) is an English

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and freelance editor, based in

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, south-east London. She is best known for her work as editor of the ''

Dictionary of Women Artists ''Dictionary of Women Artists'' is a two-volume dictionary of 600 women artists born before 1945, going back to the Middle Ages. It was edited by Delia Gaze with 23 advisors and over 100 contributors. Gaze is a writer for the Oxford DNB and wrot ...

'', first published in 1997, containing entries on 550 women painters, sculptors, photographers and workers in the applied arts. The book focuses on Western women artists from the medieval period onwards, and includes essays which place the artists in their historical context. She has also written biographical entries for the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Photographs by Delia Gaze are held in the Conway Library,

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. It is among the most prestigious specialist coll ...

, London, and are currently undergoing a digitisation process as part of the Courtauld Connects project. She has been a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

since March 2017. She has also served as Secretary of the London branch of the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales.

Publications

As editor

* ''Dictionary of Women Artists'', London:

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, 1997. Later editions of the book, in two volumes, are published by

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. * ''The Art of Holy Russia: Icons from Moscow, 1400-1660'' (with

Robin Cormack Robin Sinclair Cormack, FSA (born 27 September 1938) is a British classicist and art historian, specialising in Byzantine art. He was Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991–2004. Mary Career ...

and Bettina-Martine Wolter), London:

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, 1998. * Bronwen Brown'', Understanding Art: A Reference Guide to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque Periods'' (2 vols.), London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. * ''Concise Dictionary of Women Artists'', New York: Routledge, 2011.

As contributor

* ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

1951 births Living people 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers English art historians British women art historians English women historians Writers from London British editors British women editors Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London {{UK-art-historian-stub