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Art & Design: Art History & Reference

An online guide containing resources for students enrolled in Art & Design courses at LaGrange College.

Art Databases

Reference

Reference books are on the main level, behind the reference desk.  Art books are mostly in the N area.

The following is a list of some books that may be of interest; it is not exhaustive.  We urge you to browse the shelves in the N’s.

Encyclopedia of World Art.  

REF N 31 .E55

(17 volumes;  the index for this is in volume XV)

Dictionary of Art (Grove)  

REF N 31 .D500 1996

 (34 vols.; text available also in Oxford Art Online in GALILEO)

Arts & Humanities through the Ages 

REF NX 440 .A787 2005

(5 vols.)

Praeger Encyclopedia of Art.  

REF N 33 .P68

 (5 vols.)

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art.  

REF N 33 .M23

(5 vols.)

Oxford Companion to Western Art.  

REF N 33 .O923 2001

Oxford History of Western Art.  

REF N 5300 .O966 2000

Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art  

REF N 5300 .H953

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture 

REF N 5610 .G76 2007

The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World:  The Great Monuments… 

REF NA 210 .S488 1999

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture 

REF NA 215 .A7513 2003

Medieval Art  

REF N 7850 .R677 1996

Renaissance Art  

REF N 6370 .E27 1987

Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art  

REF N 6370 .E533 1999

Italian Painting 

REF ND 622 .V4

Spanish Painting 

REF ND 801 .L343

Encyclopedia of Latin American & Caribbean Art  

REF N 6502 .E533 1999

         

Art and Artists in the 20th Century  

REF N 33 .P744 2000

Encyclopedia of Sculpture  

REF NB 198 .E533 2004

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture  

REF NA 680 .E495 2004

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