Comprehensive and authoritative… Over 45,000 articles on all aspects of the visual arts Covers the entire history of art from Paleolithic cave and rock art to Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst More than 20,000 biographies Updated regularly with new and revised articles Invaluable… Wide range of search and browse options Over 40,000 links to images and other web resources 86,000 cross-references within articles Related articles lists open up endless research possibilities The ultimate authority on all aspects of art … Now for the tutorial …

This is the homepage of Grove Art Online This tutorial will show you all the search and browse options… …which can always be accessed from the navigation bar

Type a word or phrase into the quick search box and click Monet

Click on a result to open the article

See the article structure You can click on a green link…

…which will open in a new window

Use the content panels to navigate the article Images are embedded in the article

Click on the thumbnail to view a larger version

Moving along the grey navigation bar… you can look at external image links for this article Click on the link and a new window will open Links to over 40,000 images held by museums and galleries around the world!

This one is from the website of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Select ‘Illustrations’ to draw together all the images from the article

Click on a thumbnail to view a larger version

Simply click on the link to go straight to the relevant section You can also view all of the related articles in the Grove Dictionary of Art

You can click on ‘Article Search’ to search within the article Back to our Monet article

Search for Normandy in the Monet article normandy

Click on one of the results

…you will be taken straight to the relevant section, with your search term highlighted in red

…by typing them in here and pressing enter You can check abbreviations like ACGB… Each article has a bibliography at the end ACBG

Click here to go to the homepage The results are displayed here

Click here to go to the Advanced Search page

Read search tips and access context-sensitive help A Boolean search for articles containing “conceptual art” AND Andy Warhol …

… gives all these results

You can choose other searches from the grey navigation bar A biography search for sculptors born in New York …

… gives these results!

You can also search the external art image links A search for works located in Canberra … Canberra

… produces 206 results!

Click here to access more art image collections

Click here to see a list of illustrated articles

All 2,000 embedded illustrations are listed under article headings

Click on the image title…

… to go straight to that section of the article

Click here to access the 90,000 images in Art Resource

A new window opens for the external site

You can also access the 100,000 images in the Bridgeman Art Library

Click here to browse the articles

All the articles are listed A-Z

Type in here to go directly to a place in the list

Click here to see the full A-Z index

Click on the + sign to open up longer lists

Like this one for Pablo Picasso

Click here to use the new ‘Explore’ feature!

You can explore the entire database across all of these categories Let’s try and find all articles related to Spanish architecture in the 20th century…

Select ‘Architecture’ from the ‘Art and Art Forms’ list

Select ‘Spain’ from the ‘Geography’ list

And select ‘ ’ from the ‘Time Periods’ list

The results are listed here – click on a result to go straight to the article

And you can always read about new and recent updates… Here you can access all kinds of information about Grove Art Online…

We hope you’ve enjoyed the tour! Explore these features and much more each time you visit Access Grove Art Online from your library or from home via ATHENS or using your library card number For further help ask your librarian The ultimate authority on all aspects of art …