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Dictionary of Art Historians
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
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.
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