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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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Haiti
Conical, blue-tiled roofs cover the galleries of the Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, originally built as a mausoleum for national figures and dedicated as a public museum in 1983. As a result of its semi-buried design, the building avoided significant damage during the 2010 earthquake.
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Kees van Dongen
Known for his Fauvist period, Kees van Dongen rejected shading of colors, shaping of forms, or depth of field, instead favoring chromatic contrasts and drawings partitioned by long, sinuous arabesques. Women were his favorite subject, often nude or set in a circus, theatre, or music hall.
In this update, Grove Art publishes 1 new and 21 revised articles, as well as 382 emendations. Benezit publishes 34 revised entries.
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.
