More Renaissance Resources

More videos
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Clipart
Clipart ETC is an online service of Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse and has a 5 images under the category "Renaissance Sculpture". However, to find more, use the search option and look for individual artists, for example: "Donatello" (7 images), "Michelangelo" (3 images).

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S. Reinach, Apollo (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922) via FCIT)

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The Renaissance Connection, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania

A middle-school level exploration of Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern world. Explore a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation, and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own. (It works best if you have Flash installed - but there is a HTML/text version as well.)

Suggestions from surfaquarium

Journey through the Renaissance - http://library.thinkquest.org/C005356/
This Flash-based website will allow your students to take an animated tour of the Renaissance beginning in Italy and traveling through time across Europe. You can take advantage of the Flash technology or use the Market Place alternative to sift through the content without having to make use of the plugin. Assuming you do want the full effect, you can opt for either a spoken guided tour or a smaller-sized silent tour. Running like an interactive multimedia movie, this is sure to get students' attention. Great as an introduction to the Renaissance!

Virtual Renaissance - http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
OK so the index page is a bit much with the intense background. But once you get past it your students are in for quite a treat. Enter through Portal Five and receive a complete lesson plan for using this site with your students, who are required to apprentice for an artisan during Renaissance times. There is an emphasis on the study of the Guilds of the time and an opportunity for each of your students to become a master craftsperson in his or her own right. This site is set in Renaissance Italy, so it gives a nice contrast to other pages recommended on this topic which favor the later northern Renaissance.

RENAISSANCE - an Annenberg/CPB project on the cultural rebirth of the Middle Ages - excellent production and activities

RENAISSANCE TOME OF ADVENTURE AND KNOWLEDGE - "Sir Clisto Seversword" takes you on a journey through the Middle Ages using sight and sound to simulate a right medieval experience - very different!

LEONARDO HOME PAGE
From the Boston Museum of Science; includes an Inventor's Workshop and a look at Leonardo's Perspective

LEONARDO: WEBMUSEUM SITE
An art criticism of his life's work with eight of his works viewable online as part of the presentation; links to a timeline of the High Renaissance, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt