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McGraw Hill

My Art Studio: Search Across Time: Renaissance Visual Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief introduction to Renaissance art and links to web searches for specific artworks.
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West Valley College: The Italian High Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: The Late Renaissance: Mannerism

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource briefly talks about selected Manneristic artwork in the context of Shakespearean drama. A picture is provided along with links to additional information on related subjects.
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Berger Collection Educational Trust: Berger Art Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Berger Art Collection, which comprises two hundred works of British art and spans more than six centuries (earliest work dates from 1395), find access to information about and analysis of all the art in the...
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Albrecht Durer

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent, detailed biography of Durer, with extensive links to his works and contemporaries. This site not only details his artwork, but also his contributions as a mathematician.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: The Art of Romare Bearden

For Students 9th - 10th
Newshour with Jim Lehrer, a nightly news broadcast on PBS, offers a wealth of material on Romare Bearden. Content includes the NewsHour report, a gallery of his artwork, extended interviews with the artist, and a companion lesson plan.
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Other

Virtual Uffizi Gallery: Take a Virtual Tour of the Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
See the artwork located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This resource brings the images to you. Just click on the room or topic and see background information and a link to the image.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Andrea Mantegna: Works Viewable on the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
Site that links you to the artwork of Andrea Mantegna at various exhibits, museums, and galleries.
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Brunelleschi, Filippo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Web Gallery of Art provides a biographical sketch of Brunelleschi, a "Florentine architect [and] one of the initiators of the Italian Renaissance." Includes links to related information and to images of his artwork.
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Masaccio

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Web Gallery of Art provides a biographical sketch on Masaccio, "the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance." Includes link to related information and to examples of Massacio's artwork.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion: Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
The Krannert Art Museum provides a great collection of artwork from all over the world. Click on "collections" to access images of African, Egyptian, America-Pre-Columbian, USA, Ancient Gandhara, China, India, Japan, Thailand, Greece,...
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Giovanni Bellini

For Students 9th - 10th
This ibiblio.org site provides information about the Italian artist, Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516 CE). Contains information about his life and artwork. Gives many examples of his paintings, with brief descriptions.
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Other

Cyberspain: Don Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice biography on Cervantes with artwork and some of his quotes. The text of "Don Quixote" is in Spanish and is accessible by a link in this site.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Romare Bearden (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This 4-day lesson plan asks students to explore artistic points of view, explore the elements and principals that contribute to mood, and discuss social themes that were prevalent during the Harlem Renaissance. The 4-day process involves...
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Other

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
At the Brooks Museum in Memphis, the collection includes Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculpture, English portraits, European and American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, and works on paper, including drawings,...
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Other

Milwaukee Art Center

For Students 9th - 10th
At the home page, click on collection and read an overview, then go to areas of interest: Earlier Art, Modern and Contemporary, Prints and Drawings, Photography, Decorative Arts, and Folk and Outsider Art. Of special note are the Brooks...
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EL Education

El Education: A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration depicts European world-wide exploration and exploitation through a collage-style book of text, hand-drawn and water-colored illustrations, maps, timelines, and diagrams. The book chronicles...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Michelangelo and His Early Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was...
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Flemish Art Collection: "Cat and Dead Game" by Carstian Luyckx

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Depiction of the painting "Cat and Dead Game" by Carstian Luyckx. The page loads in Dutch, but there is an option to view the page in English.
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Other

Arkansas Arts Center Museum of Art, Children Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
The Arkansas Arts Center Museum of Art collection is noted for drawings from the Renaissance to the present and craft objects including teapots, baskets, and toys designed by artists. Thumbnails that include detailed information on the...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Britain, home to one of the biggest empires in history and a rich artistic heritage. We'll start in the 16th through the 18th centuries, years that saw the establishment of Britain and British art as we know it. As you travel...
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 702: Trompe L'oeil

For Students 9th - 10th
A short lecture on trompe l'oeil in art that introduces the concept of realism turned to visual deception in artwork. It explores the great divide in theory between Plato and Aristotle which serves as an epistemological backdrop to the...
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Curated OER

Picture of Mona Lisa

For Students 9th - 10th
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael.