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Famous Artist of the Month
Feature one famous artist a month with a series of portraits, biographies, and examples of their gallery. With masters such as Augustus Rodin, Francisco Goya, and Michelangelo, the resource provides opportunities every month for kids to...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: High Renaissance Artists
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.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Renaissance
A description of what the Renaissance was with links to examples to a number of different paintings from that era.
Robert H. Sarkissian
Island of Freedom: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Complete discussion of Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance artist. Discusses his life, his impact on the art world, his political views of the times, and his influence on society. Explanation of works, additional links to other great artists.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Renaissance
Provides a detailed look at the Renaissance movement. Content includes a focus on important Renaissance political leaders, religious figures, authors, artists, scientists, philosophers, and composers.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The Northern Renaissance
Centered in Germany and the Netherlands during 1400 and 1500s, the northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical and philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. While less concerned with...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance
Discusses all aspects of European Renaissance including the artists of Italian high renaissance. Links to the renaissance movement in the Netherlands, Germany and France.
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,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: The Harlem Renaissance
This site has a list of fifteen artists from the movement with links to images in various museums.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance
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.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Titian
Very informative article on Titian's career as an artist, his works, his styles of painting, and his influences.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Parmigianino
This resource includes images of some of Parmigianino's most famous paintings including "Madonna with the Long Neck." It includes a biography of the artist.
Other
Renaissance Personalities Student Home Page: Titian 1477 1576
Easy-to-read short biography of Titian citing his background and his accomplishments. Part of a school project for 8th graders.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Renaissance Humanism
This site contains a overview of Renaissance humanism from the modern European intellectual history lectures. It discusses the age, the tenets of humanism, and the major personalities involved in the movement.
Other
Amistad Digital Resource: Harlem Renaissance
Read about the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s rebirth of African American arts centered in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City.
Other
Michelangelo
A comprehensive and thorough biography of Renaissance artist, Michelangelo. Great information but a heavy read.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Gentile Bellini (1429 1507 Ce)
A good, informative site with biographical information, links to museums with the artist's work and magazine articles.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Biographical summary of the life and career of 16th-century Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Biographical account highlights the life and career of German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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.
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
Michelangelo/painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet
An Italian site containing a comprehensive biography of artist Michelangelo. Also includes images of some of his paintings.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Giorgione
Brief biography of Giorgione. Includes links to photos of his works including The Tempest.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The High Renaissance
A listing, with links, of some of the artists associated with The High Renaissance art.
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