Oxford Art Online
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May 2008: Revamp and relaunch of Grove Art Online under the new name: Oxford Art Online. It includes new broader content and attractive format.
Read about the changes here: Oxford Art Online changes (21KB)
The multi-award-winning Oxford Art Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide – from prehistory to the present day.
Contains more than 45,000 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols) on every aspect of the visual arts:
- painting
- sculpture
- graphic arts
- architecture
- decorative arts and photography
from prehistory to the present day. Also contains biographies, bibliographies, and thousands of links to colour images and home pages from the world's leading museums, picture libraries, and galleries.
Browse by the following subject areas:
- African Art
- Australian and New Zealand Art
- Chinese Art
- Classical Art
- Latin American and Caribbean Art
- Northern Renaissance Art
- and Twentieth Century Art
Users can also explore particular themes such as:
- Art and Art Forms
- Geography
- People
- Styles and Cultures
- Time Periods
and also:
- biographies of painters, sculptors, graphic artists, architects, furniture makers, ceramists, photographers, illuminators, calligraphers and more
- biographies of patrons, collectors, agents and dealers
- articles on criticism, theory, and philosophy of art
- survey articles on the cultures and civilizations of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia
Oxford Art Online also provides access to all of the articles from The Oxford Companion to Western Art (ed. Hugh Brigstocke, 2001). OCWA contains over 2,800 entries on major subjects in the visual arts covering major museums, artists, styles, periods, techniques, materials, and more.
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