Contains the full text of the The Grove Dictionary of Art (originally the 34-volume Dictionary of Art ) with over 45,000 articles compiled over a period of 15 years. Includes more than 20,000 artists biographies and thousands of images of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, photography and the decorative arts; Benezit Dictionary of Artists a comprehensive and definitive resource for artists' biographies, published since 1911 and includes 149,000 biograhies, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists' signatures and stamps of sale; and Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Covers every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.