A registry of more than 720,000 names and other information about artists, produced by the Getty Research Institute.
►Use this resource to look up artists' names (including pseudonyms, variant spellings, and preferred name), biographical information, related artists, and citations.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
The reference sources listed below are accessible online via UNC.
Provides a single portal for searching across several major art encyclopedias and dictionaries, including Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Entries include bibliographies for further research, images, and often examples of artists' signatures.
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National record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. Now provides links for the biographee to the Bibliography of British & Irish History, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Archives, Who Was Who, etc.
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A major biographical dictionary of deceased individuals whose achievement, fame, or notoriety occurred while living in what is now the United States or who “directly influenced the course of American history.”
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The Premium collection brings together more than 300 language and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. These books can be searched simultaneously or by individual book title.
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