In the spirit of our committment to offer the most imformative references to understanding more about the world of art and artists, artnet.com has created the Research Library. With thousands of articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art on Artist's Biographies, Materials and Techniques, and Styles and Movements, we launch this area. In the months to come we will be making much more available to you.

Choose from more than 16,000 biographies of painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, architects, ceramicists, graphic artists and more, including some 15,000 articles from the award-winning Grove Art Dictionary of Art.

From Canvas and Pigment to Gesso and Underdrawing, more than 130 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art discuss the most important materials and techniques used in painting, sculpture and all other forms of the visual arts.

Read about the 1000 most significant Styles and Movement in Western and non-Western art history. The Dictionary of Art includes articles on intriguing groups of artists, thge Kitchen Sink school and the Ashcan school, as well as the most renowned periods of art, the Renaissance and Impressionism.