Subject Guides: Art Education: Starting Your Research

Helpful Background Sources

Oxford Art Online
Comprehensive encyclopedia of art, with authoritative and comprehensive reference sources for all visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, design, and decorative arts. Includes links to images from libraries and museums. Contains: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford, and The Dictionary of Art Terms. We have 8 simultaneous users.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History presents a thematic, chronological, and geographical exploration of global art history through The Met collection. Authored by The Met’s experts, the digital publication is a reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history. The Timeline currently comprises more than 1,000 essays, 8,000 works of art, 300 chronologies, and 3,700 keywords. It is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on The Met collection.
Tate Art Terms
Tate's online glossary is designed to explain and illuminate some art terminology.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory offers art history content provided by more than 800 leading scholars (art historians, archaeologists, and museum curators). Almost all contributors hold an earned Ph.D. All Smarthistory content has undergone an open peer-review process where it is vetted by multiple scholars including those with applicable area expertise. Every essay on Smarthistory lists the author and links to their academic credentials.
The Art Story
Contains articles on artists, movements, and times periods that were central to modern art.
Wikipedia
Free online encyclopedia, great for: finding basic information on a subject, synonyms for subject terms, related subjects, links to scholarly articles, etc. DO NOT CITE, but still consult at the beginning of research.