This alphabetically arranged dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery profiles the world's erotic artists from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers basic biographical information, including the artist's name and any variants, birth and death dates, and geographic focus. Each entry also includes a description of the artist's media, training and the nature of their artistic output, supplemented in most cases by a list of published reproductions of the artist's erotic work and a bibliography of articles and books which focus on the artist's erotica.