Getting started with Grove Art Online

What is Grove Art Online?



Art Online is the most comprehensive and authoritative online resource for all research in the history of the visual arts. It provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (over 45,000 articles on art from prehistory to the present) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Grove Art Online offers over 1500 colour images and line drawings; links to the Art Resource and Bridgeman Art Library searchable image databases; and links to over 40,000 images on museum and gallery websites. For copyright reasons, Grove Art Online cannot publish all of the images in the print edition online.

Grove Art Online offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, and collaborates with nearly 1,000 international art historians, scholars, librarians and experts with specialised knowledge in various areas of the visual arts.

A vast resource which gives you great benefits

All 45,000 articles can be found in seconds with a sophisticated keyword search
Over 1,500 colour art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles
Links to searchable image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world
Access cross-references in the text with a click of the mouse
Updates, new articles and new image links added as an on-going feature