Delia Gaze

Delia Dorothy Gaze FSA She is best known for her work as editor of the Dictionary of Women Artists, 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. She has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London 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: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Later editions of the book, in two volumes, are published by Routledge. The Art of Holy Russia: Icons from Moscow, 1400-1660 (with Robin Cormack and Bettina-Martine Wolter), London: Royal Academy of Arts, 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.