Research Guides: *Art &amp; Art History*: Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Encyclopedias, Bibliographies, Dictionaries

Oxford Bibliographies in Art History
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Art history is a vast discipline, geographically, historically, and intellectually. These bibliographies give concise treatment of large topics such as "Contemporary Art" or "History of Photography" and expert recommendation on the best works available in Art History whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a Website, blog, or data set.
Oxford Art Online
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Includes full-text articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Contains images and provides links to related sites. Draws information from:
Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Term
Benezit Dictionary of Artists This link opens in a new window
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Benezit contains thousands of artist biographies, as well as auction records, exhibition histories, museum listings, bibliographies, images of artists signatures and monograms, and links to external websites of research value.
Berg Fashion Library
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Search for images and texts on world dress and fashion throughout history from 1600 to the present.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
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Contains more than 5,000 searchable entries covering all aspects of Byzantine history and civilization from the 4th through the 15th centuries, with special depth in subjects such as bureaucratic titles and fiscal terms, urban life, and rural economy.

The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists
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Western art from 1300 to the present day. It provides information on painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, technical processes, terminology, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and much more. There are also extended conceptual entries ranging over such subjects as abstraction, allegory, genres, iconography, illusionism, minimalism, realism, and symbolism.
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
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World Painting Index
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The Dictionary of Art Historians
The new DAH offers searchable data on over 2400 art historians, museum directors, and art-writers of western art from all time periods.