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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Renaissance Renaissance Writing

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes in writing and poetry during the Renaissance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: High Renaissance Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Renaissance Florence During the Renaissance

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Florence, Italy during the Renaissance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.com explains the Renaissance, not only as a time period, but as how it changed thought, writing, and art throughout Europe. See links to Renaissance in Italy, Germany and Netherlands.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A booklet that accompanied a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in manuscript art from those times.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline Art History; The Birth of the Virgin

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the early Renaissance painting by Fra Carnevale "The Birth of the Virgin" from 1467, with a description and images of the piece.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Part C: Fibonacci Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
Look at an interesting application of ratios that demonstrates the amazing patterns that emerge when we examine mathematics. The Fibonacci numbers are found in art, music, and nature.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline Art History; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the Renaissance book with illustrated engravings "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo's Dream about the Strife of Love)" by Francesco Colonna, with a description and images from the...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Web Guides: A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the Library's resources as well as links to external web sites on the Harlem Renaissance, and a bibliography.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Adam and Eve

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the German Renaissance engraving "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Durer, with a description and images from the book.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Art Nouveau

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on Art Nouveau in great detail. Find out what this term means, and how this "new art" adapted from old styles.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Brief History of Western Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: The Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a list of fifteen artists from the movement with links to images in various museums.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
From this site you can learn a little bit about the Renaissance art movement's beginnings in Venice. You will also view 7 representative works from various artists.
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Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: The Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short timeline of key events of the Italian Renaissance. Make sure to click on "Humanism" and "Renaissance Art" for more information.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Michelangelo Art for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the biography of Michelangelo, Italian artist, sculptor, and painter of the High Renaissance art movement on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Raphael Art for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the biography of Raphael, Italian artist, architect, and painter of the High Renaissance art movement on this site.
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo's "The Holy Family"

For Students 9th - 10th
The Web Gallery of Art offers this digitized image of this famous painting by Michelangelo. Includes some notes on the background of the painting and the artist's style.
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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Lehman Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
View fifty selected pieces from the Robert Lehman Collection of European art, which features paintings, drawings, and works of decorative art from the Italian and Northern Renaissance up through the twentieth century. An excellent survey...
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Smithsonian Institution

Anacostia Museum: The Renaissance: Black Art of the Twenties

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an informative description of the "Black Arts of the Twenties," which was better known as the Harlem Renaissance. Learn about the culture, art, music, and writings of this period.

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