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Includes the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art (Carpenter Reference N31 .D5 1996) and the Oxford Companion to Western Art (Carpenter Reference N33 .O923 2001), and includes images both within the articles and links to online collections of digitized images (e.g., Bridgeman Art Library and Art Resource).
Some examples of titles in the Carpenter reference section:
Contemporary Artists / editor, Joanne Cerrito (Carpenter Reference ND 40 .C6 1996)
Crtitical terms for art history
Dictionary of Artists
Also know as Benezit dictionary of artists, this is the first English-language edition of Emmanuel Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres.
Guide to the literature of art history 2
A short guide to writing about art / Sylvan Barnet, 9th ed., 2008
(Carpenter N7476 .B37 2008) There are multiple copies of the earlier editions in Tripod.
World painting index / by Patricia Pate Havlice. (Carpenter Reference ND 45 .H38)
The world's master paintings from the early Renaissance to the present day : a comprehensive listing of works by 1,300 painters and a complete guide to their locations worldwide / compiled by Christopher Wright
(Carpenter Reference ND40 .W75 1992)
Tripod library catalog