The Renaissance Project
Class 6 Library Research
Renaissance Artists
Botticelli,
Bruegel (Pietre, the
elder), da Vinci, Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian
Chapin's Online Encyclopedias
http://www.chapin.edu/library_services/online_resources.html
The World Book, Grolier, and Britannica Encyclopedias we use in the Reference area are also available online.
- Web
Gallery of Art
This is one of the best sites for searching for your artist's works as it indexes works in museums all over the world, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection. As a special bonus, you may even select and listen to music from the time period.
- The Metropolitan Museum: Search the Collection
- http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search.asp
- Although you may also search the Met through the
Web
Gallery of Art above, you may enjoy visiting the museum online simply
because its such a spectacular site.
Uffizi Gallery
http://www.virtualuffizi.com/uffizi1/artisti.asp
A must see for Botticelli.
The Museum of El Prado, Madrid, Spain
http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/prado.htm
Michelangelo Buonarroti