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The Art of the Italian Renaissance
Feast your eyes on some of the most beautiful and important art of the Renaissance, including paintings, sculptures, and architecture. The slides take care to detail the characteristics of each art form, but the presentation really lends...
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Knowledge Bowl 2002 - Art
Using some of the most famous paintings in history, this presentation asks students to identify the artist. All the information necessary is included, and the pictures of the artwork are clear and attractive. This presentation could be...
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Botticelli
Students practice their studying methods by playing a team game in class. In this research instructional activity, students participate in a game of Botticelli using their textbooks to find answers in this quiz activity....
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Artists
In this art worksheet, students identify and locate the names of famous artists from around the world. There are 54 names located in the puzzle.
PBS
Pbs: Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance
Learn about the Renaissance period and its cultural leaders, the Medici family. Take an interactive tour of Florence and use the interactive timeline to understand the course of the Renaissance through the centuries. Uses popups.
Other
Virtual Uffizi Gallery: Take a Virtual Tour of the Museum
See the artwork located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This resource brings the images to you. Just click on the room or topic and see background information and a link to the image.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Sandro Botticelli
Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dante's Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art
Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...
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
Birth of Venus
This site contains a brief paragraph on Botticelli's painting "Birth of Venus." Also includes an image of the painting.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Renaissance: Focus on Florence
Overview of Florence during the Renaissance discusses the key elements and individuals that made the city a center of Renaissance power and culture: the Medici family, the wool trade, humanism, Florentine art and architecture,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Curated OER
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Curated OER
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Curated OER
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Curated OER
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
Curated OER
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Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.