Dictionaries - Art

ArtLex Art Dictionary

http://www.artlex.com

"Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references."

Archiseek: Glossary of Architectural Terms  

http://www.archiseek.com/guides/glossary

" A collection of architectural and building terms explained."

Dictionary of Art Historians

http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org

A biographical dictionary of scholars, historians, and museum professionals.

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online  

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat

A structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and information about concepts "to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture." The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is international.

Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/INDEX.HTM

An illustrated dictionary prepared by a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

Symbols.com  

http://www.symbols.com

2,500 Western signs arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics and addressed in 1,600 articles, which discuss their history, uses, and meanings. Allows users to search for information on a particular sign, or conversely, for a sign having a particular meaning.   

Words of Art

http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/glossary.html

A browsable glossary of terms related to visual art theory and criticism. Presented by the University of British Columbia.

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