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Lesson Plan for St. Catherine
Students analyze the art of St. Catherine and Gothic Art. In this art analysis lesson, students read the biography of St. Catherine and read about the carving of the statue. Students complete a related statue art activity and carve...
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Vatican Museums
This is a gem of a site. Each of the Vatican Museums is listed and explored in detail. There is an abundance of general and specific information here.
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Vatican Museums: Online Tours
The Vatican Museums Online provides an online tour of each Vatican Museum including the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms, the Pinacoteca, and the Ethnological Missionary Museum.
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Vatican Museums: Gregorian Egyptian Museum
In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI founded the Gregorian Egyptian Museum with artifacts from ancient Egypt coming from Rome and the Vatican. This site features pictures and scale drawings of each room in the museum.
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Vatican Museums: New Vatican Pinacoteca
The new Vatican Pinacoteca was inaugurated on 27 October 1932. This site features pictures and scale drawings of each room in the museum.
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Vatican Museums: Ethnological Missionary Museum
The Ethnological Missionary Museum was founded in 1926. The present collection amounts to over 80,000 works made up of religious artifacts from four different geographical areas.
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Vatican Museums: Gregorian Etruscan Museum
In 1837, Pope Gregory XVI founded the Gregorian Etruscan Museum with artifacts from southern Etruria. This site features pictures and scale drawings of each room in the museum.
Library of Congress
Loc: Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
This exhibition includes information and artifacts from the Vatican Library regarding archaeology, humanism, mathematics, music, medicine, nature, and more.
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Ibiblio: Rome Reborn the Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance.
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Stuardt Clarke's Rome: Museums and Galleries of Rome
What a terrific site! Many museums are listed, described, and contents revealed.
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Vatican Museums: Sistine Chapel
This site covers the floor plans and designs of the Sistine Chapel. It provides links to the ceiling itself, the last judgment, the north wall, the south wall, and the entrance wall. Also includes a virtual tour of the chapel.
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Vatican Museums: Raphael's Rooms
Covering information on the Room of Constantine, the Room of Heliodorus, the Room of the Segnatura and the Room of the Fire in the Borgo, this site provides information on the four rooms known as the Stanze of Raphael.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studies for the Battle of Cascina and the Creation of Adam
The Battle of Cascina was a famous fourteenth-century victory over Pisa. Michelangelo's Bathers depicted the Florentine army hurriedly preparing for battle after a dip in the river. Michelangelo's drawing caused a sensation because of...