Art History Websites
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Metropolitan Museum of Art CollectionSearchable site of 425000+ images and records.
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Ancient Greece in SmarthistorySmarthistory offers more than one thousand videos and articles on art from around the world and across time.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryAncient Greek art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Archives & Special Collections
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Capitol History GatewayOfficial website of the Oregon State Capitol Building, with a virtual tour and history of the building.
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State Capitol Souvenir Book1938 pamphlet about the construction Oregon State Library Building.
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Oregon EncyclopediaA comprehensive and authoritative compendium of information about Oregon's history and culture, created through a partnership between Portland State University, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society.
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State Library of Oregon Digital CollectionsIncludes: current and historical state government publications, maps,publications of other Oregon entities, including city, county, and tribal governments, and more
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The Oregon Historical SocietyThe Research Library's collections encompass library and archival materials, including books, serials, newspapers, oral histories, manuscripts, government documents, genealogical and biographical material, photographs, film, and maps.
Art History Reference Books
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Dictionary of ArtCall Number: Ref N 31 .D5 1996ISBN: 1884446000The only comprehensive art reference work in the world. It covers all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990’s in 34 volumes. This is also available online as Grove Art Online. -
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition by Call Number: Hatfield Library Reference DF77 .E53 2000ISBN: 1579581412Publication Date: 2000 -
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture by Call Number: HAT Reference N5610 .G76 2007ISBN: 0195300823Publication Date: 2007 -
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)
Call Number: HAT Reference N7760 .L49 1981ISBN: 3760887511Publication Date: 1981"LIMC is a multivolume encyclopedia cataloguing representations of mythology in the plastic arts of classical antiquity". Articles written by leading scholars can be in English, French, German or Italian. Each volume has two parts: part one contains images and part two contains detailed entries about the images in part one. -
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Call Number: HAT Reference N33 .O923 2001Publication Date: 2001Contains entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms. This is also available online. -
Dictionary of Subject and Symbols in Art by Call Number: Ref. N7560 .H34 1974ISBN: 0813343933Publication Date: 2007-12-25Emphasizes Christian and classical subject matter from western art of the Renaissance and later. Greek and Roman mythology, classical heroes, legends and ancient history are also included. -
The Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art by
Call Number: Hatfield Library Reference N7740 .H35 1994ISBN: 0064333140Publication Date: 1995
Classical Mythology Books
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Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Symbols, Attributes & Associations by Call Number: HAT Reference BL715 .B44ISBN: 0874360234Publication Date: 1982-01-01 -
Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Call Number: HAT Reference BL715 .M37 1998ISBN: 0304346268 -
Handbook of Classical Mythology by Call Number: HAT Reference BL723 .H36 2004ISBN: 1576072266Publication Date: 2004-06-10 -
The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Call Number: HAT Reference DE5 .O9 2012ISBN: 0199545561Publication Date: 2012
Humanities and Fine Arts Librarian
Doreen Simonsen
Contact:
Mark O. Hatfield Library
900 State Street
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503-375-5343
900 State Street
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503-375-5343
Guide to Imagery Series
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Nature and Its Symbols by Call Number: Hatfield Library 2d Floor Stacks N7680 .I4713 2004ISBN: 0892367725Publication Date: 2004 -
Symbols and Allegories in Art by Call Number: Hatfield Library 2d Floor Stacks N7740 .B2913 2005ISBN: 0892368187Publication Date: 2005 -
Gods and Heroes in Art by Call Number: Hatfield Library 2d Floor Stacks N7760 .I4713 2003ISBN: 0892367024Publication Date: 2003
