Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Artists for Kids
Kids learn about Renaissance artists including painters and sculptors such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael on this site.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: The Holy Family
This site from the Web Gallery of Art provides a digitized image of this famous painting by Michelangelo. Includes some notes on the background of the painting and the artist's style. A link to a page containing a biography about...
Other
Caravaggio: No Art in Violence?
This site explores the violent tendencies of the great artist Caravaggio and how this affected him, his life, and his art.
Other
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1300 1600 [Pdf]
Chapter 17 of a textbook on world history (36 pages). Includes a Renaissance timeline and map. Looks at the conditions that led to the Italian Renaissance, major artists, writers, the Northern Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the...
Other
Alien Travel Guide: All About Sculpture
This is a descriptive site that offers information on types, styles, media, artists, history, and periods in creation of sculpture.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Caravaggio
This resource contains a biography of the great artist as well as a gallery of his works. Be sure to click the link at the bottom for more information.
Other
West Valley College: The Italian High Renaissance
The site from the West Valley College briefly surveys several pieces of artwork from the Italian High Renaissance including those from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Mannerism
Artlex.com defines and describes mannerism in European art between 1520 and 1600 with examples by Michelangelo, El Greco, and others. Features links to related artists, concepts, terms, and examples.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Raphael
Detailed biography on the famous Italian painter Raphael who lived during the high Italian Renaissance. Discusses his influences by other artists, his works, and links to images of them.
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.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Curated OER
Caravaggio: Unreadable Text and Great Pictures
This site contains many really nice pictures of the artist, but the text seems to be in another language.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Caravaggio
This site from the Web Gallery of Art contains an in-depth biography as well as the artist's works in different time periods. A great site to check out on the subject.
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Raphael and His Drawings
Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael trained with his father and then the Umbrian artist, Perugino. From 1504/5 he worked in Florence where he was much influenced by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, learning from their depictions of the...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The High Renaissance
A listing, with links, of some of the artists associated with The High Renaissance art.
Curated OER
Symbolism in Visual Images
Brief essay on visual symbolism in literature and art. Provides examples and nice images. Shows that visual images can have the same type of symbolism as literary works.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Caravaggio. The Crucifixion of St. Peter
This site has a wonderful picture of the "Masterful" painting.