Welcome to Oxford Art Online, the access point for subscriptions to Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and other Oxford art reference resources.
Maurice de Vlaminck: The River Seine at Chatou, oil on canvas, 826×1019 mm, 1906 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art History Research Starts Here
Oxford Art Online is the gateway to multiple trusted online art reference resources that serve students, scholars, curators, and collectors alike. It is anchored by two major resources with complementary strengths; subscribers to both can cross-search them simultaneously.
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Grove Art Online
- The unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts from pre-history to the present day
- More than 23,000 subject entries (e.g., art movements) and 21,000 biographies, contributed by 6,700 international scholars – all with bibliographies for further research
- More than 6,500 art images from outstanding museums and arts organizations, as well as 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries around the world, to provide essential visual support for art history scholarship
- Content updated three times a year to reflect the latest scholarship, with new articles and images, additions to bibliographies, and corrections
- Tools for navigating content include thematic guides, timelines, and resources for educators designed by the Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- A landmark reference work covering the lives and careers of both obscure and acclaimed artists
- Nearly 170,000 entries covering a wide range of artists from antiquity to the present day
- More than 11,000 images of artists’ signatures, monograms, and stamps of sale
- Auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies for further research
- Content updated three times a year to reflect the latest scholarship, with new entries, additions to bibliographies and auction records, and corrections
Additional highly acclaimed resources included with a Grove or Benezit subscription:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
