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Famous Artist of the Month
Feature one famous artist a month with a series of portraits, biographies, and examples of their gallery. With masters such as Augustus Rodin, Francisco Goya, and Michelangelo, the resource provides opportunities every month for kids to...
United Nations
Unesco: Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and Its Po Delta
This World Heritage website features Ferrara, a focal point for the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Ferrara is known as well as the place where modern town planning began. Found here are a description, a map,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The Northern Renaissance
Centered in Germany and the Netherlands during 1400 and 1500s, the northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical and philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. While less concerned with...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Renaissance
A description of what the Renaissance was with links to examples to a number of different paintings from that era.
Robert H. Sarkissian
Island of Freedom: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Complete discussion of Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance artist. Discusses his life, his impact on the art world, his political views of the times, and his influence on society. Explanation of works, additional links to other great artists.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Artcyclopedia provides a biography of Michelangelo, celebrated artist of the Renaissance. The resource features links to famous works at museums around the world, articles, and other resources.
University of California
Ucmp: Leonardo's Contributions to Science
Information about Leonardo da Vinci's observations of the natural world. An insightful commentary on the scientific achievements of the Renaissance.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The Harlem Renaissance
This site has a list of fifteen artists from the movement with links to images in various museums.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance
Discusses all aspects of European Renaissance including the artists of Italian high renaissance. Links to the renaissance movement in the Netherlands, Germany and France.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Parmigianino
This resource includes images of some of Parmigianino's most famous paintings including "Madonna with the Long Neck." It includes a biography of the artist.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: High Renaissance Artists
A chronological listing of artists from the High Renaissance. This list covers the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Works of art and biographies available with each name.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Andrea Mantegna: Works Viewable on the Internet
Site that links you to the artwork of Andrea Mantegna at various exhibits, museums, and galleries.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Holbein, Hans the Younger
This resource provides a biography of Hans Holbein the Younger with links to some of his works and to other artists of his time.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The Italian Renaissance (1420 1600)
This brief ibiblio.org article provides an overview of the key painters of the Renaissance in Italy. The artists and their major works are the key focus here and while further links on them are available, but you will not find anything...
PBS
Pbs: Sandro Botticelli
An essay on the life and work of Sandro Botticelli, famed artist of the Italian Renaissance, with wonderful reproductions of two of his acclaimed works, "La Primavera" and "Birth of Venus." Part of a larger site on the Renaissance...
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Allesandro Botticelli
Biographical summary of the life and career of Italian Renaissance painter Allesandro Botticelli.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Beauford Delaney
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Beauford Delaney is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his association with the Harlem Renaissance and his portraits of African Americans.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Lengthy biography detailing Michelangelo's life, his works, his achievements, and his influence on other artists. Links to his works including the Sistine Chapel.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Culture in the 1920s
The First World War had a crippling effect on any notions of positivity in the artists, writers, and intellectuals of that time and they became known as the Lost Generation. This page discusses this group of people, the emergence of jazz...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The High Renaissance
A listing, with links, of some of the artists associated with The High Renaissance art.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Titian
Very informative article on Titian's career as an artist, his works, his styles of painting, and his influences.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Biographical account highlights the life and career of German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Biographical summary of the life and career of 16th-century Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Matthias Grunewald
Biographical summary of the life and career of German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald.