Oxford Art Online (formerly: Grove Art Online )
TYPE: Full-Text
COVERAGE: prehistory-present
ACCESS: Database available to authorized Centre College users only
Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (REF N31.D5 1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. Oxford Art Online is an encyclopedia that covers the artistic traditions of the world's leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions as well as important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings. Includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present as well as over 40,000 web links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world and links to more than 100,000 color images from The Bridgeman Art Library. Both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more) are included. The online database also includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.