Visual Arts

For basic information about artists, terms and movements, use Grove Art Online or search the Art & Architecture section of Oxford Reference Online Premium. To search for images, use ARTstor either to find known artists or works, or use advanced searching to discover new artists. To find journal articles, use Art Abstracts or Academic Search Complete and to find books, use the library's catalog. To find reviews of artists' shows, search the library's newspaper databases.

• Oxford Art Online

  Visual art encyclopedia online with over 45,000 articles includes bibliographies and links to many images. Consists of the Grove Dictionary of Art, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art Formerly Grove Art Online.

  Updated quarterly |

• ARTstor

  A digital library of images, associated information, and software tools with over a million images of art, advertising, people and places worldwide.

  Prehistory to 20th century | (full image)

• Academic Search Complete

  Find articles in all subject areas in over 9000 journals and magazines, with full text for about 6100. Updated daily.

  Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present |

• Art Abstracts

  Locate information on visual arts and crafts, photography, archaeology, architecture, art history, and related areas in magazines and journals.

  September 1984 to present |

• Digital Scriptorium

  Images of mediaeval and renaissance manuscripts.

  Dates vary |

• Oxford Reference Online Premium

  Search for entries in many Oxford University Press dictionaries and other reference books, including foreign language dictionaries.

  Dates vary |