PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
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.
Library of Congress
Loc: Web Guides: A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
Presents the Library's resources as well as links to external web sites on the Harlem Renaissance, and a bibliography.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Adam and Eve
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.
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]
Other
Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna
This beautiful and historic museum houses maninly European art. Highlights include Renaissance and Baroque paintings from Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Maiolica: History, Function, and Production
The presence of tin in a glaze makes the glaze less likely to run or blur when the painted ceramic piece is heated in a kiln. Artists took advantage of this quality and used tin glazes for making pottery with finely detailed, painted...
Library of Congress
Loc: Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's
A great site about Robert Blackburn's Printmaking workshops in existence since the 1940's. A Great bio on Blackburn as well as information on the exhibition at the Library of Congress.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: El Greco
View a representative work by El Greco, with contextual notes and analysis.
Read Works
Read Works: Architecture: The Duomo
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the architecture of the Duomo cathedral in Florence, Italy. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studies for the Last Judgment and a Late Crucifixion Drawing
The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...
Other
Whitney Museum: Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories
A look at Jacob Lawrence and his art, and instructions on how to make your own tempera paints and "paint your own story," using Lawrence's work as inspiration.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Titian
Very informative article on Titian's career as an artist, his works, his styles of painting, and his influences.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Leonardo Da Vinci
Biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci, along with brief discussions of his style and famous works. Includes fast-loading reproductions of many of Leonardo's most famous works, including "The Last Supper," the "Mona Lisa," "The...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant,...
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...
Other
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Home Page
At the Brooks Museum in Memphis, the collection includes Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculpture, English portraits, European and American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, and works on paper, including drawings,...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: The Late Renaissance: Mannerism
This resource briefly talks about selected Manneristic artwork in the context of Shakespearean drama. A picture is provided along with links to additional information on related subjects.
Princeton University
Princeton University: The Art Museum
The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Dirk Bouts the Entombment
This audio analysis of Dirk Bouts' painting reveals his unique style of painting and explains why it is so rare.
Other
Milwaukee Art Center
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...
Curated OER
Madonna and Child (The Benois Madonna)
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
Curated OER
Madonna and Child With a Carnation
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
Curated OER
The Baptism of Christ
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
Other
Early Renaissance Florence at the Metropolitan Museum
"Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence" was a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. This is a review of the show. It mostly addresses Illuminated manuscripts.