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**//TIP: Start your search for facts about your artist by using an encyclopedia for background. //**


 * Grolier Online Encyclopedia **
 * With New Book of Knowledge (NBK), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (GME); Encyclopedia Americana (EA) **

URL:  **// TIP: Be sure to check out the web links suggested by the online encyclopedias in the artists’ articles. There are usually GREAT sites! //**
 * World Book Encyclopedia **

** Directory Searching **
 * Yahoo Directory: **  (Drill down following links to Art History, Periods and Movements, Renaissance, etc,)


 * Google Directory: **  (Drill down following links to Art History, Periods and Movements, Renaissance, etc,)

** SOME Print Resources **


 * REF 300 BOO **// The Book of Art //
 * REF 703 PRA **// Praeger Encyclopedia of Art //
 * REF 709 MUN **// The Encyclopedia of Art //
 * REF 709.2 COU **// The World of Michelangelo, 1475-1564 //
 * REF 709.2 EIM **// The World of Giotto, c.1267-1337 //
 * REF 709.2 WAL **// The World of Leonardo, 1452-1519 //
 * REF 709.2 WIL **// The World of Titian, c. 1488-1570 //
 * REF 940.2 PLU **// The Horizon Book of the Renaissance //
 * REF 940.2 REN **// Renaissance // (an encyclopedia)
 * 709 BAR **// Artists of the Renaissance //
 * 709.02 KAL **// Renaissance Art //
 * 709.02 RAM **// Michelangelo //
 * 709.024 FIT **// Movements in Art: The Renaissance //
 * 709.032 FIT **// Movements in Art: The Baroque Period //
 * 759 LEO **// Leonardo Drawings //
 * 759 MIC **// Michelangelo Life Drawings //
 * 759.5 RIP **// Botticelli //

= SOME Databases =

** Social Issues Research Services (SIRS) Knowledge Suite: //Researcher, Government Reporter, Renaissance// databases ** http://sks.sirs.com  http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtm
 * //Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select// **
 * // INCLUDES ART MUSEUM IMAGE GALLERY !! //**

Cross-curricular resource to world cultures from their own perspectives, images, multi-media, demographics URL: http://worldandischool.com
 * //The World and I School Online// **

SOME Web Resources ** Guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, with directory of artists, collections, and other resources. Learn about great artists and their masterpieces in the Artcyclopedia, as well as common art terms, periods and movements, and art museums worldwide. < [|http://www.artcyclopedia.com] >
 * Artcyclopedia **

Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. 
 * Web Gallery of Art **

Directory of famous European artists with images and biographical information. 
 * Olga's Gallery **

The permanent collection galleries of the Columbia Museum of Art. Here, visitors will find the arts which reflect the mission of the museum - European and American fine and decorative arts and design from the late Middle Ages to the present." < [] >
 * Columbia Museum of Art: The Collection **


 * Mark Harden’s Artchive: < ** @http://www.artchive.com/ >