Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Music in the Renaissance
Learn how the political, religious and economic changes in Europe during the Renaissance affected the music of the period. A slide show introduces viewers to a variety of instruments which were developed in conjunction with the new music.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminating the Renaissance
Through four different "looking closer" tools you can get an in-depth discovery of a well-known manuscript from the Renaissance.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: World History: The Renaissance and Protestant Reformation
Comprehensive learning module on Renaissance and Reformation explores its evolution, culture, contirbutions and conflict. Complete set of multi-media course resources.
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,...
Yale University
Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Daily Life in the Renaissance
History Questions: Daily Life in the Renaissance Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Paracelsus, Medical Revolution of the Renaissance
This site explores the work of Paracelsus, a leading physician during the Renaissance. It provides biographical information on the great physician, gives an overview of Renaissance humanism, and explains how different theories of medical...
Read Works
Read Works: The Renaissance Renaissance: The Spread of Ideas
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the invention of the printing press. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theater: The Renaissance/neoclassicism in Italy
Brief class notes on the Italian Renaissance, Also includes notes on Neoclassicism, Italian staging and Commedia dell'Arte
British Library
British Library: Illuminating the Renaissance: Flemish Manuscripts
A selection of high-quality images from the Flemish manuscripts in the British Library along with a timeline of contemporary European events.
Other
University College at Dublin: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation
Useful for research and for focusing on women's writing during this influential period, this article includes a lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Smithsonian Institution
Anacostia Museum: The Renaissance: Black Art of the Twenties
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.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Printed images of the major architectural monuments and sculptures of ancient Rome spread knowledge of classical antiquity throughout Europe. The "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence") represents a...
Library of Congress
Loc: Transition From Renaissance Dance to Baroque Dance
Overview of dance in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. It includes the changes dance forms underwent, description of English Country Dance.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Historical Maps of Italy
Review these two maps of Italy during the Renaissance from the Perry Castaneda Collection. Zoom in to see the details of a map of the Milanese under the Visconti and one of the Republic of Florence.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Renaissance, 1300 1600
Find a selection of readings to enhance teaching humanism and the Italian Renaissance and follow up with some of the questions available through MIT.
Other
The Renaissance Cornetto
Detailing the history of the renaissance instrument the cornetto, this site provides some interesting information about how it was made and how it was played.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Renaissance
A description of what the Renaissance was with links to examples to a number of different paintings from that era.
ibiblio
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.
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.
Other
Mc Murry University: The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
Links to pages with images and information on Galileo Galilei and the mathematics of perspective used in art of the Renaissance.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Farnese Hercules
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the Renaissance engraving of the "Farnese Hercules" by the transplanted Dutchamn to italy Jacob Bos in the 16th century; with a description and images of the engraving.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Italian City States of the Renaissance
History Questions: Italian City-States Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Medici Family of the Renaissance
History Questions: Medici Family Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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