Renaissance art history, a list of top websites, galleries and museum collections
Famous Renaissance artists; The Italian and Northern European Renaissance; Art prints and books
Arte del Renacimiento/Arte rinascimentale/Art de la Renaissance/Renaissance-Kunst
See also: Artists of the Italian Renaissance and Renaissance Art and Artists
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Alberti *
Alberti’s On Painting
An English translation, from Notebook.
Alberti: Architectural Proportions
Architecture *
Renaissance Architecture,
15th and 16th century, images from The Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office.
Architecture of the Renaissance.
Artists of the Renaissance.
Wikipedia entries.
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Drawings *
Anatomist drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in The Royal Collection.
Michelangelo: drawings for the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Web Gallery of Art
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Early Renaissance *
The Early Renaissance in Florence.
The National Gallery of Art, U.S.
ArtLex
ArtLex: Examples of earlier Renaissance works of art by artists born before 1470, including the works of Fra Angelico.
Artcyclopedia: The Early Renaissance
Great artworks in art museums.
Donatello
An online gallery.
Giotto
A collection of Giotto’s artwork with descriptions and artist’s biography.
Masaccio
Wikipedia entry.
Eyck, Jan van. Jan van Eyck
WebMuseum
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Female painters of the Italian Renaissance.
Ficino, Marsilo
Ficino, Marsilio. I Fabbricanti di Dei: Marsilio Ficino e la magia dell’Asclepius
The Life of Marsilio Ficino by Giovanni Corsi.
Marsilio Ficino
A biography forming the introduction to the Letters of Marsilio Ficino.
Marsilio Ficino on the alchemical art.
Translation of a Latin text, Marsilius Ficinus, ‘Liber de Arte Chemica.’
Florence/Firenze *
Early Renaissance Florence
Exhibition at The National Gallery of Art, US.
Florence, a list of art museums and art galleries.
Guide to Florence. Firenze.net
Map of Florence, an interactive street and buildings map.
Uffizi Gallery.
High-defintion images of works of art, from The Google Art Project.
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German Renaissance *
German/Northern Renaissance paintings.
Wikipaintings
The Norhern Renaissance (below)
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Humanism *
Italianistica
Italian Studies Online. Portale di studi italianistici.
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Italian Renaissance websites *
Architecture in Renaissance Italy.
Early Italian Renaissance Paintings
Wikipaintings
Italian paintings of the 15th Century
The Natonal Gallery of Art
Italian painting of the 16th century
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Italian Renaissance Art Project
Italian Renaissance, background, artists, images.
European Art in the Renaissance:
Thematic Essays (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
Italianistica
Italian Studies Online. Portale di studi italianistici.
Italian Renaissance, web resources from ARTHlinks.
Manuscript Illumination in Italy, 1400–1600
The Royal Collection
The Courts of Northern Italy, Sixteenth Century
Florence and Rome, Sixteenth Century
Venice and the Veneto, Sixteenth Century
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Leonardo da Vinci; a list of websites.
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Manuscripts from the British Library.
Medici family.
A profile of the Medici family and their influence on Italian Renaissance art.
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National Gallery, London, tour of its collection of Renaissance art.
Northern Renaissance *
Netherlands Renaissance image gallery
Northern Renaissance Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Early Netherlandish paintings, from Van Eyck to Bruegel.
Northern Renaissance artists.
Art museums displaying works by Northern Renaissance artists.
Northern Renaissance Art. ArtLex
Northern Renaissance Artists *
Bosch, Hieronymus
The Web Gallery of Art
The Ghent Altarpiece, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
Campin, Robert (Master of Flemalle)
Robert Campin
The National Gallery, London
Robert Campin
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Dürer, Albrecht
Albrecht Durer. The National Gallery of Art collection.
Albrecht Durer. The National Gallery (London) collection.
Albrecht Durer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Durer’s house in Nuremberg.
Palladio Museum. Il Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
The Pico Project
Brown University and Universita degli Studi di Bologna
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Renaissance art in Italy, web resources from
Renaissance and 17th Century Links,
an education website by John Richard Stevens. Bibliographies, pamphlets, history, architecture, organizations. 17th Century Net
Rome: art museums and galleries
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Sculpture/Scultura rinascimentale *
Sculptors of the Renaissance.
Wikipedia entries.
Italian Renaissance sculptors, a web gallery from Thais.it
Donatello
Thais
Michelangelo; sculptures by Michelangelo.
The Web Gallery of Art
Society, history, culture *
Renaissance Society
A site about the history of the times, culture and society of the Northern & Southern Renaissance movement.
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Theory, Renaissance Theory
Discipline Letteratura Italiana del Novecento. Italianistica Online
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Vasari, Georgo *
Vasari, Giorgio. Giorgio Vasari.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Le Vite
1550 Unabridged, original Italian.
Stories Of The Italian Artists From Vasari
Translated by E L Seeley, 1908. Abridged, in English.
Vasari
Wikipedia
Vatican
Vatican art collection and art museums.
Paintings in The Pinacoteca, The Vatican.
Venice
Venice (Venezia) Museums, galleries and exhibitions.
Victoria and Albert Museum Medieval and Renaissance galleries.
Voyages of discovery.
A comprehensive index of webpages about voyagers and voyages of discovery.
Wikipedia entries on the Renaissance and Renaissance art and artists.
Famous Renaissance Artists/Renaissance Art Museum Collections *
See: Renaissance artists and Italian Rennaissance Artists