Grove Art Online adds features

This month Grove Art Online [http://www.groveart.com] launched an outstanding group of editorial and technological enhancements, including a new Explore feature, a new art image program, and a content update. Sign up for a 30-day trial to review these new features at http://www.oxfordonline.com/freetrials!

EXPLORE GROVE ART ONLINE
Grove Art Online now offers the innovative EXPLORE feature, enabling users to customize searches with combinations from five major subject categories: Art and Art Forms, Geography, People, Time Periods, and Styles and Cultures. Explore is a powerful and sophisticated tool which offers users the ability to browse over 45,000 articles in over 170 categories in the visual arts. Now users of all levels of expertise, ranging from the young student to the senior research scholar, can easily survey the immense richness of Grove Art Online content. For example, users can now create a list of all articles in Grove Art Online related to Italian sculptors of the Renaissance, or view all articles pertaining to photography in the twentieth-century. Sign up for a trial and try it for yourself at http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/subject_class.html!

ART IMAGE PROGRAM
Grove Art Online begins a new art image program to illustrate important articles with key images in art history. Now, in response to overwhelming user demand to integrate images with articles, color images will be available through hyperlinks within the text of articles for the first time. Users can find illustrations for major works of art in articles such as: African American Art, Cassatt, Delacroix, Michelangelo, and more. The integrated images will be accessible from within the body of the article and from the Illustrations tab in the relevant articles. For a list of articles enhanced with illustrations this month, go to http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/whats_new_200409_images.html.

Grove Art Online will continue to direct users to a variety of online image resources including Art Resource, Bridgeman Art Library, and links to museums and galleries. View these art image collections at http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/image_collections.html.

EDITORIAL UPDATES
This quarter over 190 articles have been updated and revised. Death dates have been added to dozens of biographies. Over 100 articles have been emended with new scholarship and bibliography sent in by contributors, including key articles on Goya, Kokoschka, Monet and Schiele. A list of revised articles is available at http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/whats_new_200409_general.html.