Websites, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries

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• Grove Art Online  Online version of the Dictionary of Art (34 vols). The primary reference tool for art historical research.
• Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. By Oxford U. Press
• Art & Architecture Thesaureus Online (AATO). AATO contains more than 125,0000 terms.
• Timeline of Art History. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Mother of All Art and Art History Links  From the University of Michigan
• ArtCyclopedia: the Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
• Art History Resources on the Web    Created and maintained by Chris Witcombe, art history professor at Sweet Briar College. Based on Gardner's Art Through the Ages (10th ed., 1996)
• Artsource    from the University of Kentucky. Has a variety of interesting links
• ArtsEdge    For artists. Sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center and the NEH
• NYFA Interactive   offers arts news and information
  Dictionaries
  

• Dictionary of Art Historians: A Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art . A project by Duke U.
• ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art

• A Dictionary of Architecture . Oxford UP
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists . Oxford UP 
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
. Oxford UP

• The Oxford Dictionary of Art
. Oxford UP

• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. Oxford UP
• Brill's New Pauly Encyclopedia of the ancient world, with a focus on Greco-Roman antiquity and its long and influential aftermath.
• Oxford Companion to World Mythology