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Grove Art Online
Updated full text of The Dictionary of Art (34 vols., 1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001), with images and line drawings from the text of articles and extensive external image links. (Updated continuously, Oxford University Press)
Art & Architecture - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously in multiple titles grouped under Art & Architecture in Oxford Reference Online.
Biography Resource Center
Biographical articles on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas from multiple Gale reference publications, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, and Directory of American Scholars. (Updated continuously, Gale)
Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, covering all periods of Western architectural history. (2nd ed., 2006, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Modern Design
Covers the past 150 years of international design, with entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion. (2004, Oxford Reference Online)
Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
Provides information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites, and stylistic developments of the Classical period. (2007, Oxford Reference Online)
Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Covers thousands of years of the decorative arts in both western and non-western cultures: the uses of materials, art forms and styles, and the history of armor, jewelry, furniture, textiles, and ceramics. (2006, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Reference Online
Over 175 reference titles from Oxford University Press, many encyclopedic dictionaries or Oxford companions, covering a wide range of subject areas.
World Maps
Small physical and political maps for each country, state maps for North America, Canada, and Mexico, and more than 100 city maps. (2004, Oxford Reference Online)
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