Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of Both Worlds
This website provides an ample sampling of da Vinci's sketches and paintings, though without much comment or background information.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3044/ The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Although it provides no background information or context, this website does offer clear, color image reproductions of interesting sketches from da Vinci's notebooks.
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/ Louvre: A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa
This multimedia page on the Louvre's website provides background and analysis of da Vinci's most famous work. An audio commentary is accompanied by highlighted and zoomed views of the painting.
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/detail_oal.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673229908&CURRENT_LLV_OAL%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673229908&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=0&bmLocale=en Art Cyclopedia: Early Renaissance and High Renaissance
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific Renaissance artists (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well).
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/early-renaissance.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/high-renaissance.html Decameron Web
This website is dedicated to making the Decameron accessible not only by providing an online text of the work (in both English and Italian), but also by providing relevant background information about the Plague, Italian society, medieval views of literature, and so forth.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Renaissance
This valuable website provides access to sources (mostly textual) related to the Renaissance. The sources are divided into categories such as "Petrarch" and "The Arts of Civilization."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1x.html Art History Resources on the Web: Renaissance Art in Italy
This website doesn't contain original material; instead it provides access to dozens of links to other sites covering a variety of topics related to the art of the Italian Renaissance (as well as that of many other cultures and time periods).
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html Web Gallery of Art
This website provides images of a number of works by important artists, including Michelangelo, Giotto, and Donatello. Visitors can search for the works of specific artists or browse movements such as Early or High Renaissance.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/art/index.html Timeline of Art History: European Art in the Renaissance
This website, maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides access to a good combination of images and thematic essays divided according to culture, time period, and medium. The site contains dozens of pages dedicated to aspects of Renaissance art and culture, including "Anatomy in the Renaissance," "Donatello," and "The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm Renascence Editions: The Book of the Courtier
This website provides access to a number of texts from the English Renaissance, including this sixteenth century translation of Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier. Students might struggle with the spelling and grammar.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html Oration on the Dignity of Man: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
At this website, students will find an English translation of Pico's seminal Renaissance oration. Hyperlinks provide explanatory notes for some of the allusions in the piece.
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mirandola/ Project Gutenberg
At this expansive website, students can find a number of e-texts from the Renaissance in English translation, including works by Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Chaucer.
http://www.gutenberg.org eChaucer: Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century
This website offers e-texts of all of Chaucer's major works and many of his minor ones in both their original language and modern translations.
http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/ Choral Public Domain Library
This website offers access to the scores of a large number of composers, often accompanied by audio files (midi and mp3) of several of the composer's pieces. Searches can be made according to composer or musical era or style. Among the composers whose works can be heard on this site are Guillaume de Machaut, Josquin des Prez, and Adrian Willaert.
http://www.cpdl.org | 