Timelines of art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art HistoryThe Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
- Timelines of World Art (from Oxford Art)Review significant moments in art history from all over the globe. The timelines feature brief summaries of important events in the visual arts; many of the summaries are accompanied by an image, and all link to articles in Grove Art Online for further reading.
Art terminology
The Concise Dictionary of Art TermsCovers a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.
Information on artists
- Benezit Dictionary of ArtistsAvailable online via Oxford Art Online. With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Entries are clear and concise, and Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies.
- The Oxford dictionary of art and artistsCovering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this dictionary contains concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also includes biographical entries for artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and patrons.
- Oxford art online This link opens in a new windowServes as a portal to several important art related resources: Grove Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Search by terms biographies, subject entries, or images. Oxford University Press.
Background information on art periods and movements
- Grove Encyclopedias of ArtsA collection of encyclopedias on various regional, topical, and temporal art topics, including materials and techniques, Islamic art, decorative, classical, Medieval, American, and many others
- Oxford art online This link opens in a new windowServes as a portal to several important art related resources: Grove Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Search by terms biographies, subject entries, or images. Oxford University Press.
- Oxford dictionary of the Middle Ages This link opens in a new windowCovers key aspects of European history, society, and culture from 500 to 1500 A.D. as well as the Byzantine Empire, Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples of the era.
- Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, including art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period. Significant biographical entries covering artists, thinkers, statesman, and reformers.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism This link opens in a new windowProvides access to interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period, including over 2000 articles and 130 images. Content is fully cross referenced allowing for greater discoverability between fields, and covers eight key subject areas: Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents.
- A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary ArtContains more than 2,000 entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries. There are biographical entries for artists worldwide from the beginning of the 20th century through to the beginning of the 21st. International coverage, indications of public collections and publicly sited works.
- The Oxford Companion to Western ArtOver 2600 entries, approximately half covering artists, from classical times to the twentieth century. Other entries discuss art styles and movements, art forms (such as battle painting, landscape, caricature, or stained glass), specialist terms, and materials and techniques in all media. Includes regional and cultural surveys, entries on specific places of importance and entries on museums and galleries are arranged under the their city so that the reader can easily survey the major sites within a particular locality.
