Tools and Resources for Grove Art Online
Welcome to the Tools and Resources section of Oxford Art Online. Here you will find a range of materials to aid teachers, lecturers, and students wishing to use Grove Art Online in lesson planning, essay writing, project work, and research in secondary and tertiary education.
The Tools and Resources area includes timelines divided into four major time periods, MoMA/Grove Art lesson plans prepared by the Education department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and thematic guides which provide brief overviews and highlights of some of the rich content in Grove Art Online.
Abbreviations
Grove Art Online uses abbreviations for general terms, locations, periodical titles and standard reference books and series. This is a complete list of all the abbreviations used throughout Grove Art Online.
Timelines of World Art
These timelines of world art are designed to provide readers with an overview of significant moments in art history from all over the globe. Each timeline covers a specific span of time, and each moment describes an important event in visual art. All moments link to articles in Grove Art Online, and many moments are accompanied by illustrations.
MoMA/Grove Art Lesson Plans
These learning units are designed to make art accessible and exciting to younger audiences. Each learning unit includes lesson objectives, discussion topics, activities and projects, images and suggested readings in Grove Art Online that relate to the lesson plans.
Thematic Guides
These Grove Art Online thematic guides are designed to highlight essays and biographies related to popular topics in the visual arts, such as Asian art, Renaissance art, Cubism, and Dada and Surrealism. Each guide also includes a slideshow of representative works of art related to a particular topic in art history.
