Subject Guides: Art History 201/202 Lloyd: Background

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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. Also includes access to Oxford Digital Reference, a collection of 17 ebooks covering The Renaissance, Dance, Global Change, The Reformation, Byzantium, Theatre and Performance, The Enlightenment, Economic History, Evolution, Ancient Egypt, Food and Drink in America, The Middle Ages, American Literature, Latinos and Latinas in the United States, British Literature, Linguistics, and Children's Literature.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start to get background information about the social issue.

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.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window Searches key background sources for art research: Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, etc. INCLUDES GUIDES to topics in art.

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Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. 6 vols.
HumRef CB 361 .E52 1999 + E-book
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 4 vols.
SocSci Ref B 802 .E53 2002 + E-book
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
HumRef BR 302.8 .O93 1996
Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s
HumRef DA 529 .E53 1992 + E-book
Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
HumRef D 299 .E735 2006 + E-book
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences This online Encyclopedia offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. It comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Encyclopedia of World Cultures This reference set lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. Based on research of social scientists, it is the source for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on virtually every existing culture.

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

Sayre. Writing About Art. HumRef N 7476 .S29 2009

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) This link opens in a new window Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) contains 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
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Biography Reference Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window More than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
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