From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the Renaissance engraving "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Composite of Corinthian and Ionic" from the mid 1500s, with a description and images from the book.

Describes the conquest of North America in the 1500s by the explorers Hernando de Soto, Vasquez de Coronado, and Cabeza de Vaca. The text has many embedded links to maps showing the routes they traveled as well as to additional information.

Read this brief introduction to the Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi, as they lived prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 1500s. Find examples of their pottery and their cliff dwellings.

Outline text explaining how the French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s.

This article from McGraw-Hill Higher Education discusses European exploration in the late 1400s and 1500s and its impact on English colonization hundreds of years later.

During the Gothic period and the Renaissance (1100s-1500s) stained glass was one of the foremost techniques of painting practiced in Europe. It may seem surprising to call stained glass a form of painting, but in fact it is. Look closely...

An overview of the French, Dutch, and English explorers in the late 1500's and early 1600's.

This collection of educational resources will help students make sense of anti-Asian racism today by connecting it with history. Americans of Asian descent have lived and contributed to the development of the United States. The first...

Site provides an extensive lesson plan that challenges students to compare early American houses to present day houses. Very comprehensive site with several activities that will assist students in understanding common features of houses....

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses What occurred in the 1500's to change science? Changes in science beliefs began with the universe and continued to development of the scientific method.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A basic premise of science is that much of the physical world can be described mathematically and many physical phenomena are predictable. This scientific outlook took place in Europe during the late...

An image of "Voluptas", created by Daniel Hopfer during the 1500's (Etching, 225 x 136 mm).

An image of "Portrait of the Doge Leonardo Loredan", created by Vittore Carpaccio during the 1500's (Oil on panel).

An image of "Virgin of the Veil (Madonna del Velo)", created by Ambrogio Bergognone during the 1500's (Oil on panel, 60 x 40 cm).

An image of "The Holy Family", created by Niccolo Pisano during the 1500's (Oil on panel, 66 x 51 cm).

An image of "St John the Baptist", created by Girolamo Da Santacroce during the 1500's (Oil on panel, 69 x 46 cm).

An image of "Crucifixion", created by Francesco Francia during the 1500's (Panel).

An image of "Portrait of a Woman", created by Piero Di Cosimo during the 1500's (Paper on wood, 50 x 37 cm).

An image of "Head of a Youth", created by Raffaello Sanzio during the 1500's (Red chalk on white paper).

An image of "Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli and an Unknown Young Man", created by Jacopo De Barbari during the 1500's (Wood).

This section of a larger Library of Congress site briefly explains the city of Rome and its recovery during the 1500s and 1600s and includes maps and drawings of the city during that time. In addition, you'll find images of a number of...

This section of a larger Library of Congress site briefly explains the city of Rome and its recovery during the 1500s and 1600s and includes maps and drawings of the city during that time. In addition, you'll find images of a number of...

This section of a larger Library of Congress site briefly explains the city of Rome and its recovery during the 1500s and 1600s and includes maps and drawings of the city during that time. In addition, you'll find images of a number of...