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An authoritative guide with extensive surveys and in-depth, signed full-text articles on the history of art written by noted scholars in their respective field of expertise.

Art & Architecture Dictionaries. The Premium Collection brings together over 100 key Oxford subject dictionaries and reference works - containing over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.

Exhaustive coverage of over 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Entries range from patriarchy and emperors to entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread, bringing to life this important culture and empire, from the 4th to 15th c.

The most current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the over four thousand year Classical period with more than 1,000 entries on art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, works of art, and archaeological sites.

Contains over 3,000 articles of decorative arts production in western and non-western cultures over thousands of years. The historic uses of diverse materials are included, art forms and styles defined, and the history of decorative arts are discussed.

Full-text. '...this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history."

Full-text. '...encompasses all aspects of archaeology, including the nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world, and the future of the discipline.'

Full text of over 600 entries covering the architecture, works of art, cultural significance, religion, and artistic developments of this 5,000-year civilization.

Covers the art, architecture, religions and cultures of medieval Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Includes information relating to the rise of Islam and non-western cultures that came into contact with Europeans during this period.

Over 1,200 entries covering the religious and social change that occurred in Europe during the sixteenth century.

With more than 4,000 entries, this reference work covers the art, architecture, culture, literature, history, and includes biographies of important historical figures in Europe from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries.

Over 700 articles discussing the arts, culture, history, and social change from 1670 to 1815 over a wide geographical expanse including both Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, and Russia.

Full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from 20,000 BCE to the Present. Includes thematic essays, world maps, and works of art index for the over 6,000 objects from the Met's collections featured on the timeline.

Open access resource from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Contains the Chipstone and Longridge collections of early American furniture, 17th/18th century ceramics, and 17th-19th century prints.