Welcome to Oxford Art Online

  • 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

Learn more

Lviv

Lviv is a significant cultural and art center with long-standing art traditions and a multicultural art heritage drawing from its Central-Eastern European context. 

Maryam Hoseini

Painter Maryam Hoseini combines abstracted, geometric forms with figurative depictions of bodies, landscapes, and everyday objects to create otherworldly canvases.

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 1 revision and 57 emendations as part of our regular corrections process. Benezit publishes 50 emendations.

Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Oxford Art Online.

Valerie Cassel Oliver

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.

Pronunciation Guide for Artist Names

Pronunciation Guide for Artist Names

Explore the new Grove Art pronunciation guide to the names of modern and contemporary artists.  Listen to recordings of scholars pronouncing a selection of names from Ann Demeulemeester to Cai Guo-Qiang to Francisco Zúñiga.

Dulwich Pink Gallery

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

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. 

News

APRIL 7, 2025

What's new in April 2025

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 1 revision and 57 emendations as part of our regular corrections process. Benezit publishes 50 emendations.

MARCH 10, 2025

What's new in March 2025

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 156 articles with updated structure, as well as 298 emendations as part of a related corrections process.

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

What's new in February 2025

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 7 new articles, 16 revisions, and 29 emendations as part of our regular corrections process. Benezit Dictionary of Artists publishes 24 new articles and 2 emendations.