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~~ The RENAISSANCE ~~

GENERAL INFORMATION

Renaissance, an exhibit from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Overview: Web Museum's La Renaissance

ART

Mona Lisa, Leonardo daVinci

Artchive's Renaissance Art has links to many artists

Lots of resources for Renaissance art and artists from Sweet Briar College's Department of Art History.

Works of art: http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/pics/pics.html

ARCHITECTURE

Florence/Firenze: http://gonetoeurope.home.att.net/cities/florence.htm

Architecture in Renaissance Italy from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Santa Maria del Fiore: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/database/churches/duomo.html AND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Fiore

San Lorenzo: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/San_Lorenzo_Florence.html

Santa Croce:  http://www.answers.com/topic/basilica-di-santa-croce-di-firenze 

Santa Maria Novella: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/marian/marian.html

Baptistery:  historylink102.com/italy/ baptistry-florence.htm

PEOPLE

Leonardo daVinci:  http://www.mos.org/leonardo

Michelangelo: http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html

Raphael: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/raphael

Jan van Eyck: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck

Peter Paul Rubens: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens

Rene Descartes: http://www.renedescartes.com (check out the FAQ link) AND http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm 

Niccolo Machiavelli: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/MACHIAV.HTM AND http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/machiavelli.html

Johann Gutenburg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg AND  http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/eframes

Albrecht Durer: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer AND  http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/durer_ext.html

Galileo Galilei: http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo

William Shakespeare: http://www.bardweb.net AND http://www.academicinfo.net/englitwill.html

Donatello: http://keptar.demasz.hu/arthp/bio/d/donatell/biograph.htm

Sir Isaac Newton: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html AND  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml

Desiderius Erasmus:  http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/erasmus.html

Sir Thomas More: http://www.apostles.com/chrono.html AND                        http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/morebio.htm

Filippo Brunelleschi: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/brunelle AND http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/four/four.html (pictures)

Nicolaus Copernicus:  http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm AND http://www.frombork.art.pl/Ang11.htm

Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cervante.htm AND  http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu/Cervantes.html

Lorenzo Ghiberti:  http://www.artist-biography.info/artist/lorenzo_ghiberti AND http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/ghiberti (pictures)

Sofonisba Anguissola: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_Anguissola AND  http://www.artnet.com/library/00/0030/T003006.asp (pictures)

Francesco Petrach:  http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/petrarchfrancesco/1.html AND http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petrarca.htm

Artemisia Gentileschi:  http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.shtml AND http://www.wga.hu/html/g/gentiles/artemisi/index.html

Baldassare Castiglione: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/castigli.htm

Pieter Bruegel: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel AND http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/bruegel_ext.html

Francois Rabelais: http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/rabelais.htm AND http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rabela.htm

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