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Art and Design Research Guide

Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.

Journal Articles and Books
ARTstor provides access to approximately one million images from the fine arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences.

EBSCO (for mobile devices) provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.

First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.

Reference Works
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Encyclopedia Britannica
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Oxford Dictionary of Art

Museum Links
British Museum
Louvre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
Tate
Uffizi Gallery
Walker Art Center
WebMuseum, Paris

Local Web Sites of Interest
Digital Media Center
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at U.Va.
McGuffey Art Center
McIntire Department of Art at U.Va.
Second Street Gallery
U.Va. Art Museum

Internet Resources
Artists Studied in Art 101 has an alphabetical list of many artists studied in Art 101 with links to Web sites with images and biographical information.

Artists Studied in Art 102 has an alphabetical list of many artists studied in Art 102 with links to Web sites with images and biographical information.

Artcyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet through links to museums, image archives and other online resources. Search by artist name or title of the work.

The Great Buildings Collection documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects with photographs and architectural drawings. Search by building name or architect.

The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides chronological, thematic and geographic information on art from around the world using images from the museum collection.

National Museum of Women in the Arts has an online tour. Search by artist name in the collection's artist index.

Art History Resources on the Web has an extensive list of links for all genres and historical periods.

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