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Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online
From the Getty Research Institute, AAT contains 375,000+ terms covering art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. Extensive and still growing, it includes historic and contemporary terms. The target audience includes museums, libraries, visual resource collections, archives, conservation projects, and more.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
by
Gerald W. R. Ward
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more.