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Medieval And Renaissance Instruments
Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?
This attractive site describes aspects of the European Renaissance including its origins in the Middle Ages, the rise of navigation and trade, development of the printing press, arts, and the Renaissance in Florence Italy. From Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site.
Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
This site explores Galileo, mathematics, and the "interconnections between art and science in the Renaissance." Written by a professor at the City University of New York.
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that features the "real human stories behind the European Renaissance, and the family that bankrolled it." Includes an interactive tour of Florence, Italy, a family tree and profiles of the Medici family, a gallery of Renaissance art, a bibliography, lesson plans, and features on Renaissance art, architecture, politics, religion, and science.
The Renaissance Connection
This educational website for middle school students focuses on art and history of the Renaissance. It features activities that explore aspects of Renaissance art and scientific innovations, art patronage, and the life of an artist. Includes images, maps, a timeline, glossary, lesson plans, and related links. From the Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania.
Medieval and Renaissance Gardens
Discusses features of medieval and Renaissance period gardens, such as enclosures, raised and sunken beds, trellises, water features, statuary, and labyrinths. Also mentions specific types of gardens (such as peasant, abbey, and hospital gardens), and herbs, vegetables, flowers, and other plants found in these gardens. Includes a bibliography. From a class lecture by librarian Jennifer Heise at Lehigh University.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons: 1500-1650
Female power is explored in this online exhibition of 100 Old Master paintings, prints, book illustrations, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Visual representations and real stories of women who ruled, including Athena, Aphrodite, Catherine de' Medici, Elizabeth I, Eve, Helen of Troy, and Joan of Arc, are represented in this virtual tour of powerful women. From the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Palladio's Italian Villas
Information on the life and works of this influential Italian Renaissance architect. Additionally, there are categorized links, a Political Timeline of the Republic of Venice , and a bibliography.
Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination From Philadelphia Collections
"Hidden in the collections of Philadelphia libraries is an unexpected treasure -- a rich trove of more than 7,000 medieval and Renaissance miniature paintings showing religious scenes, classical tales, historical events, and medieval romances." This website highlights about 50 items from the collection, including Bibles, psalters, the Book of Hours, liturgical manuscripts, and literary texts. Also includes essays and learning materials. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
A database of medieval and Renaissance scientific instruments made before A.D. 1600. The over 500 entries include images and descriptions of astrolabes, armillary spheres, sundials, quadrants, nocturnals, compendia, and surveying instruments. Also features biographical information on the instrument makers and a glossary. From four European museums that "house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
"Featuring more than 130 works of art, this exhibition focuses on the finest and most ambitiously illuminated books produced in Flanders (parts of present day Belgium and France) between 1470 and 1560." Browsable gallery includes images from the books, with additional features such as audio clips, historical background, and image details. From the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Reading About the World: A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations
Selections from a two-volume collection of historical, philosophical, and literary readings for the study of world civilizations. Volume 1 dates from ancient Mesopotamia through the Southern European Renaissance and volume 2 continues from Northern European Renaissance to the present. Find excerpts from authors and philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, St. Augustine, Confucius, Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Maria Eugenia Echenique, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. From the World Civilizations faculty at Washington State University.
Images and Ideas: The Collection in Focus at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
A survey of the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, featuring over 25 images of paintings, photographs, and sculpture, from the 1600s through the 1980s. Browsable topics include iconic painting, Renaissance figures, and American paintings. Searchable by title, date, and media. From the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley.
Early Music Guild of Seattle
This Seattle nonprofit group "fosters appreciation for the music of earlier historical periods. [It focuses] on historically informed performances of repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods." Features upcoming concerts and events, and programs offered by the group's Northwest Center for Early Music Studies. Includes information about the Seattle early music scene, and links to performers, instrument makers, and Web resources.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
This site is "dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources." Images are arranged in five broad categories: Ancient Art & Architecture , Medieval Art , Renaissance & Baroque , 18th - 20th Century , and Non-Western Art (pre-Columbian Meso-America and Native American only). Each section is subdivided by geography or cultural identity, style or school, and medium (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.). The Textbook Concordance lists the source texts cited with each illustration.
Blood and Sawdust
Articles, essays, and resources on medieval and Renaissance woodworking. Features illustrated project notes for a wheelbarrow, flywheel lathe, chair, stool, and other furniture. Provides a FAQ, notes on paints and finishes, recommended reading, and related material. From a woodworker.
Corsair: The Online Research Resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library
"The Pierpont Morgan Library, once the private domain of the financier-collector Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), is now a public research library, a museum, an architectural landmark, and a historic site." This site contains the searchable catalog of the library's collections and a guide to the collections. The site provides quite a bit of information for research on medieval and Renaissance history, including detailed descriptions of documents in the collection.
Perseus Digital Library
Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Originally begun with coverage of the Archaic and Classical Greek world, has now expanded to Latin text and tools, Renaissance materials, and Papyri. Contains hundreds of texts by the major ancient authors and lexica and morphological databases and catalog entries for over 2,800 vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and sites, including over 13,000 photographs of such objects.
Andreas Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body
"This website presents Andreas Vesalius' Renaissance anatomical atlas ... in an exciting new way and explains the work in progress at Northwestern University to translate" this historical work from Latin into English. Includes a biography, images of the woodcut illustrations, essays, a glossary of surgical terms, and bibliography. Searchable.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Find here "scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays." The site is divided into four sections: Foyer, "materials that deal with the overall structure of the Editions"; Library, refereed materials; and Theater, a database of historical and current performance records. The Annex includes less formal texts useful to Shakespearean scholars, links to related sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and a discussion forum. Searchable.
Digital Archive of Art: Online Images from Boston College
A collection of images of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraut, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and many others.
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture
Information and images of Italian sculpture from medieval through modern times. Browsable by historical period, sculptor, and location. In English and Italian.
In Search of Scotland
Complements the BBC's ten-part series that explores the national identity of Scotland through its history. The topics are Mysterious Ancestors , Impact of the Monk , Renaissance & Reformation , The Making of the Union , Birth of a Nation , Wars of Independence , The European Lifeline , and The Enlightenment . There are many documents, photographs, and public records as well as a FAQ and related Web sites.
Medieval Names Archive
"This collection of articles on medieval and renaissance names is intended to help historical re-creators to choose authentic names." There are sections on choosing a medieval name, names in specific cultures, and names of places, things, and animals. From the Academy of San Gabriel, "volunteers who research medieval names and armory."
National Library of Scotland: Maps From Our Collections
Several searchable map collections. Includes "Maps of Scotland, 1560-1928" (hundreds of maps, including those of the country, counties, town plans/views, and sea charts); "Pont's Maps of Scotland, ca. 1583 - 1596" (manuscript maps made by Timothy Pont of Renaissance Scotland); "Military Maps of Scotland" (from the 18th century); and "Ordnance Survey Town Plans, 1847-1895."
Theatre History on the Web
A compendium of links to sites on historical information, including non-theater pages, this annotated collection is divided into three categories: area studies; cultural sites; and centers, museums and libraries. Areas of history include Classical, Medieval and Renaissance, Elizabethan, and 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. There are also links and tips for effective Web use.
Your Way to Florence: Art and History
Links to the art, history, and culture of Florence, Italy. Browse information on museums, churches, monuments, Medici villas, last suppers, and famous people. Plan an itinery by theme (archaeological, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Florence in the 1500s, Michelangelo) or by amount of time available for sight-seeing. Includes a glossary of art terms.
Annotated Webliography of Humanism
An annotated list of resources concerning the "conglomerate of traditions, a multi-faceted cultural and social phenomenon" known as humanism. Features the classic "Renaissance humanism" oriented toward Greek and Roman examples, the 18th century Enlightenment exaltation of human reason, Marxism, and the more recent "secular humanism." Includes sites devoted to humanist organizations, specific threads of progressive or skeptical thought, and major thinkers throughout history. From a humanities professor at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The "complete electronic facsimile" of the original Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), attributed to Leon Battista Alberti by Liane Lefaivre and printed by early Renaissance Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius. Includes a synopsis, textual commentary, and information on the typography, woodcuts, and technical innovations of this first edition of a work that "has surprised its readers with its vast knowledge of architecture and landscape and garden design, [and] also engineering, painting and sculpture." From the MIT Press.
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
Links to "ancient texts and images available on the Web concerning the major figures of Greek and Roman mythology." Most of the illustrations are from ancient sources, but some Renaissance images are included. A list of Attributes in Iconography shows how the gods can be identified. Time Line of Greek History and Literature gives a brief overview of Greek history and dating conventions.
Institute of Historical Dance Practice
Founded by Lieven Baert in Ghent, Belgium in 1992, this organization's aims are "to research, preserve and perform social and theatrical dances of Western Europe between 1450 and 1920." This site includes links to Renaissance, Baroque, English Country, and early modern dance resources as well as other historical dance pages, general dance directories, and dance quotes. Online sources include bibliographies, discographies, and links to related sites. Also available in Dutch.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
Descriptive directory of links to Western European historical documents. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations. Ordered by country and chronologically within each. Also sections on Medieval and Renaissance Europe; and Europe as a supranational region. Maintained by librarian Richard Hacken.
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
A tutorial "designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history," particularly the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From The University of Calgary.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
"An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet." Presents a timeline, chart of contemporary events and publications, and a biography quiz. Includes links to full-text works, including various editions; study guides; Elizabethan theater; literary and historical criticism; Renaissance studies; and educational resources, such as courses and lesson plans. Searchable.
Richard III Society, American Branch
This site is devoted to the study of King Richard III; the Wars of the Roses; fifteenth-century England; and the reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama. It includes a library of full-text editions and extracts of fifteenth through nineteenth-century sources on the Ricardian controversy; a hypertext edition of the Shakespeare play; essays; and teaching resources. There are links to discussion lists, newsgroups, medieval and renaissance sites, research libraries, and booksellers.
Renascence Editions
"Renascence Editions is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799. These texts have been produced with care and attention, but are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions in the peer-reviewed sense." Approximately 200 texts. Browsable (by author).
16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
An index of biographies, essays, images, full-text of works, and scholarly articles on the major English literary figures of the period, as well as links to other sites covering general aspects of the era. Represented authors include Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Foxe, and Edward De Vere. From Luminarium.
Web Gallery of Art
Contains over ten thousand images of "European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800)." Searchable, and browsable by name of artist. Includes selected annotations, guided tours of the collection, and a glossary of related terms.
Michelangelo Buonarroti: 1475-1564
The life and works of the Renaissance artist during his early life, mid years, and final days. It includes links to numerous illustrations as well as related sites. Part of the commercial site of Michelangelo.Com , a Website design company.
Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
This site provides a biography and background of some of Leonardo da Vinci's work, as well as images of his art, scientific drawings, and inventions. Includes classroom activities and a glossary. "Appropriate for students in grades four through eight, many of the activities can be adapted for younger or older students as needed." From the Museum of Science, Boston.
Handel-Haus Halle
This museum was the birthplace of baroque era composer George Frideric Handel and is the music museum for Halle, Germany. The site features a history of the museum, a Handel family tree, a list of works by Handel, and information about exhibits, including illustrated guides to the historical instrument collection and to the Handel exhibit (with information about Handel in Hamburg, Germany, and in Italy and London, and the Handel renaissance after 1945). In English and German.
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