Subject Guides: Art History 201: World Civilization to 1500: Background

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window 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.
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Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. Contains overviews, key events, maps, works of art, and thematic essays.
Ancient History Encyclopedia

Munsterberg. Writing About Art. HumRef N 7467 .M867c 2009 + e-book

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Illustrated catalog of over 100,000 ancient vases.
Beazley Archive: Classical Art Research Center
The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity.