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- The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- Includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures
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Fernando Botéro
The engorged forms of Fernando Botéro’s misshapen figures often critiqued the mental turgidity of the ruling classes; in The Presidential Family (1967), he depicts his subjects with a monstrosity both comic and disturbing.
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John Trumbull
In 1817, Congress commissioned American painter John Trumbull, to paint four scenes of the Revolutionary War; chosen together with President Madison, the subjects include General George Washington Resigning His Commission (1826), an act Trumbull considered “one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world.”
In this update, Grove Art publishes 37 revised articles, in addition to 5 emendations across both dictionaries. Benezit published 12 updated biographies.
Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Oxford Art Online.
Letter from the Editor
Read a letter from the Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Dr. Valerie Cassel Oliver, discussing her editorial approach and the work underway to expand Benezit’s coverage of emerging artists, varied media, and artists of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
Grove Guide to the Art Market
Explore the new Grove Art subject guide on the art market, which brings together articles related to finance, art law, provenance, cultural heritage, collecting, connoisseurship, galleries, auction houses, and dealers.
Collection Guides
Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.
Latin American Art
Grove Art continues a major initiative to revise and expand Grove’s content on Latin American art and architecture. Led by Tom Cummins at Harvard University, this project includes scholarship on topics from the Pre-Columbian period to present day.
