http://www.lib.vt.edu/subject-guides/ART/overview.html en Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:27:30 -0400 tomlin@vt.edu tomlin@vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/O/oxford-art-online.html <div style=" float: left; width: 200px;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/G/S_grove.jpg" alt="Grove" height="170px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/icons/L_vtonly.gif" title="This resource is restricted to Virginia Tech users only" width="15" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /> <img alt="database provides Get VText links" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_getvtext-20.gif" title="database provides Get VText links" width="80" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/advanced_search" title="Oxford Art Online" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/advanced_search')" shape="rect">Oxford Art Online</a> </span></h2><p><i>Oxford Art Online</i> is a gateway to <i>Grove Art Online</i> and other Oxford art reference resources (<i>Oxford Companion to Western Art</i>, <i>Encyclopedia of Aesthetics</i>, and <i>Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms</i>) in one location. 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