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,...
Read Works
Read Works: The Renaissance Renaissance Art
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about changes in art during the Renaissance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
City University of New York
Cuny: General Characteristics of the Renaissance
A look at the rebirth of the Renaissance in the context of five interrelated issues: a renewed interest in classical antiquity and the concept of "the Great Chain of Being", political changes, Humanism, the literary doctrine of...
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Read Works: The Renaissance Introduction to the Renaissance
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Renaissance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Eugene School District: The Renaissance Begins [Pdf]
Chapter 28 of a middle school textbook on world history (7 pages). It explains how the Renaissance began in Italy, and the differences between classical, medieval, and Renaissance art. It discusses the expanding world of trade and...
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Italian renaissance.org: Basic Ideas of the Renaissance
Basic information about the Renaissance. Looks at Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, painting, and sculpture. Touches upon humanism.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Overview of African Americans and their relationship to Africa. a myth which was embraced by the Harlem Renaissance.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Renaissance Humanism
This site contains a overview of Renaissance humanism from the modern European intellectual history lectures. It discusses the age, the tenets of humanism, and the major personalities involved in the movement.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1300 1600 [Pdf]
Chapter 17 of a textbook on world history (36 pages). Includes a Renaissance timeline and map. Looks at the conditions that led to the Italian Renaissance, major artists, writers, the Northern Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Renaissance Literature: The Life of Sir Thomas More
A great biography, focused mainly on his life and career in the courts. Also contains a great bibliography.
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Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne: The Italian Renaissance [Ppt]
A detailed slideshow that presents key concepts and ideas on Renaissance economics, society, politics, arts and architecture, philosophy, the Papacy, and the spread of humanism. The significant individuals in each category are also...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: World History: 1450 1750 Renaissance and Reformation
Links to embedded videos and other information about World History: 1450 - 1750 Renaissance and Reformation including the The Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, Spanish and Portuguese Empires, Mughal rule in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Correggio, Assumption of the Virgin
In the sacred architecture of the Roman and Byzantine empires, domes were viewed as symbols of heaven. Correggio merged this symbolism with the Renaissance's fascination for three-dimensional illusion. He transformed the dome of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Temple of Minerva and the Sculpture of Apollo (Veii)
Etruscan temple design had a huge impact on Renaissance architecture and one can see echoes of Etruscan columns in many buildings of the Renaissance and later in Italy. View pictures and read the history behind these temples in this...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Development of Writing and Books [Pdf]
In this activity, students examine early civilizations and the evolution of written language, the role of the Renaissance in developing the printing process and in distributing information, and the human desire to record information.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art
Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...
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Louvre Museum: Mona Lisa: Portrait of Lisa Gherardini
Learn about the various actions that have been taken to preserve the "Mona Lisa," one of Leonardo's most famous portrait paintings. Explore compositional details, unfinished portions of the painting, and other interesting tidbits about...
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Michel Eyquen De Montaigne
A biography containing some references to Essays and a general overview of his philosophy. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated around...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Duccio's Madonna and Child
Video and short article discussing the history and features of the Duccio's Madonna and Child. [4:46]
British Library
British Library: Bodies of Knowledge
Series of illustrated essays on the different ways that the human body has been represented in art and science across history considers medieval astrology, the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, Vitruvius's notion of body symmetry,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Raphael and His Drawings
Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael trained with his father and then the Umbrian artist, Perugino. From 1504/5 he worked in Florence where he was much influenced by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, learning from their depictions of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Brief History of Western Culture
History is divided into time periods in order to better understand the culture and characteristics of that time. Read a brief description of the art and culture of historical time periods in this introductory article.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Dream Anatomy
Take a step back in time to see the human body and the field of medicine through the looking glass of history. Experience a different kind of representation of our internal anatomy, and learn about the history of human dissection.
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Drawings of Leonardo
A collection of high-quality scans of drawings by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Includes anatomical drawings, mechanical drawings, studies for sculpted works, and an assortment of oddities.