The Grove Dictionary of Art by Jane Turner (Editor)Call Number: REF. N31 .D51996
ISBN: 1884446000
Publication Date: 2003
Although called a dictionary, this 20 volume set with 45,000 entries is more like an encyclopedia which covers biographies, achievements of cultures where individual artists were difficult to pinpoint, world's civilizations and peoples, articles on every modern country recognized by the United Nations, cities and towns with significant artistic traditions, sites of archaeology or monuments, styles, schools, groups, movements, forms, themes, subject matter of art, building types, materials and techniques of art, and history of art patronage.