About the Database
Oxford Art Online is is one of the databases subscribed to through the Gulliver consortium.
Oxford Art Online is a visual arts encyclopedia comprised of "Grove Art Online" (online version of the 34 volumed "Grove Dictionary of Art"), "The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics", "The Oxford Companion to Western Art" and "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms". It covers all aspects of Western and Non-Western visual art - from Aboriginal Australian Art through to Zygouries ( a Bronze Age settlement in Greece) and Architecture through to Zincograph. It has over 5000 images in the database and links through to all the great museums of the world.
Information Guides
The following link will take you through to a page where you can open a Powerpoint presentation provided by Oxford.
Grove Art Online Guided Tour
For a more in-depth look at searching and browsing go to the following help pages.
Tips for experienced Grove Art Online Users (8 pages)
Explore
Oxford Art Online is found on the Yarra Plenty database page under "Music and the Arts" - go to the following page to try it for yourself.
http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/computers/databases.html#music
Questions to test you
1. Which art movement did Dante Gabriel Rossetti belong to? Find an image of his painting "Proserpine" - which gallery owns the painting?
2. What is "chiaroscuro"?
3. Van Rijn is his surname what is his first name and when was he born?
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