Two books about Portuguese art were published in the nineteenth century in Paris. Atanazy Raczynski (1788-1874), a Prussian diplomat, compiled them based on many materials which he obtained in Lisbon, where he was posted. Les arts en Portugal (1846) consists of the letters which Raczynski sent to "Societe artistique et scientifique de Berlin" from Lisbon. In the following year, he published Dictionnaire historico-artistique du Portugal (1847) as a sequel. This contains names of Portuguese artists and of persons related to Portuguese art. Though they are frequently cited in basic dictionaries of art, such as U. Thieme und F. Becker (1907-50) and J. Turner (1996), they are hardly known in Japan. Therefore, the author would like to introduce and review them.
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