Online Reference Sources
Oxford Art Online
Searchable, full-text art reference source includes Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Credo Reference
Searchable, full-text reference sources covering a broad scope of subject areas.
Specialized Journals available in RISD Databases
Project Muse > "18th century"
RISD Museum of Art
RISD Museum Object Research Guide - a guide to researching museum objects from the RISD Museum and elsewhere
Text Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
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Cyclopædia; or Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature
Histoire de l'art chez les anciens
The history of ancient art : among the Greeks
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Note: Plates (2888) illustrate the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert