Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online)

Oxford Art Online covers all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day. It provides online access to the entire text of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art plus some newly-commissioned articles. There are extensive links to images of famous pictures from galleries and museums around the world. It also includes the text of Oxford's Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Dictionary of Art Terms.

To access Oxford Art Online from home, click on the link above. Then on the homepage, ignore the username / password login and look for the link for "library card logins". Click on this link and you will then need to enter your library card number: type the letters "vg" followed by the numbers found underneath the barcode on your library card. 

For example vg12345678