Grove Art Online Update

We're delighted to announce that the latest update to Grove Art Online is now available
at www.groveart.com.

NEW THEMATIC ESSAY...
A major new thematic essay, Spirituality and Art, traces the spiritual role of art
throughout the world, exploring subjects as various as the pyramids, still-life painting
and contemporary installation art. It also highlights a wealth of Grove Art Online
content beyond artists' biographies such as essays Religion and art, Shamanism, the
Sublime, Jewish art, Native North American art and more. The article is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/spirituality_public.html.

UPDATED ARTICLES...
Over 80 articles have been updated with new bibliography, death dates and textual
revisions to reflect new scholarship in the field of art history. These include articles
on Patrick Caulfield, Pieter Claesz, Al Held, Ed Paschke and Baltazard Solvyns. A full
list of updated articles is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/january2006.html.

OVER 400 NEW IMAGES...
Grove Art Online also continues to expand its image offerings and we have added over 400
new images to the text of major articles such as Ancient Near East, Early Christian and
Byzantine, Etruscan, Helladic, Mesopotamia and Ancient Rome. We now display over 2,500
key images in art history in the text of frequently consulted articles. A selection of
illustrated articles is available at
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/illustrations.html.