Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Michelangelo and His Early Drawings
Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Artcyclopedia provides a biography of Michelangelo, celebrated artist of the Renaissance. The resource features links to famous works at museums around the world, articles, and other resources.
Other
Michelangelo/painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet
An Italian site containing a comprehensive biography of artist Michelangelo. Also includes images of some of his paintings.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Moses (After Michelangelo) by Edmonia Lewis
Resource about the sculpture Moses by Edmonia Lewis. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to...
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo's "The Holy Family"
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.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Contains a detailed biography of artist Michelangelo. Written from a Catholic perspective. 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: 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...
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: The Holy Family
This site from the Web Gallery of Art provides a digitized image of this famous painting by Michelangelo. Includes some notes on the background of the painting and the artist's style. A link to a page containing a biography about...
Other
Caravaggio: No Art in Violence?
This site explores the violent tendencies of the great artist Caravaggio and how this affected him, his life, and his art.
Other
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...
Other
Alien Travel Guide: All About Sculpture
This is a descriptive site that offers information on types, styles, media, artists, history, and periods in creation of sculpture.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Caravaggio
This resource contains a biography of the great artist as well as a gallery of his works. Be sure to click the link at the bottom for more information.
Other
West Valley College: The Italian High Renaissance
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Mannerism
Artlex.com defines and describes mannerism in European art between 1520 and 1600 with examples by Michelangelo, El Greco, and others. Features links to related artists, concepts, terms, and examples.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Caravaggio
This site from the Web Gallery of Art contains an in-depth biography as well as the artist's works in different time periods. A great site to check out on the subject.
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...
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...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The High Renaissance
A listing, with links, of some of the artists associated with The High Renaissance art.
Curated OER
Symbolism in Visual Images
Brief essay on visual symbolism in literature and art. Provides examples and nice images. Shows that visual images can have the same type of symbolism as literary works.