A freely available resource, this site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art:
- Virgin and Child
- Picturing Family and Friends
- The Making of an Artist
- A New World of Learning
- Presentation of Self
- Time and Narrative
- Recovering the Golden Age
- Artists and Patrons
Researchers and students can explore thematic essays, more than 300 images, 300 glossary items, and 42 primary source texts. This invaluable classroom tool provides educators with printable activity guides and discussion questions to integrate into course work.
Artists: Giovanni Alberghetti, Giovanni d’Alemagna, Zoan Andrea, Andrea Andreani, Amico Aspertini, Antico, Federico Barocci, Biagio di Antonio, Baccio Baldini, Giovanni Bellini, Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont, Sandro Botticelli, Agnolo Bronzino, Felice Antonio Casone, Andrea del Castagno, Francesco Xanto Avelli, Benvenuto Cellini, Piero di Cosimo, Lorenzo di Credi, Bernardo Daddi, Zanobi di Domenico, Donatello, Duccio, Baldassare d’Este, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Adriano Fiorentino, Niccolò Fiorentino, Vittore Gambello, Giambologna, Giorgione, Giotto, Apollonio di Giovanni, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Neroccio de Landi, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernardino Licinio, Lorenzo Lotto, Bernardino Luini, Benedetto da Maiano, Andrea Mantegna, Marco del Buono di Marco, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Michelangelo, Antonio Minello, Barnaba da Modena, Matteo de’ Pasti, Perugino, Sebastiano del Piombo, Pisanello, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Piero Pollaiuolo, Jacopo da Pontormo, Ambrogio de Predis, Raphael, Marco Ricci, Andrea Briosco Riccio, Ercole de’ Roberti, Giovanni Cristoforo Romano, Antonio Rossellino, Giovanni Antonio de’ Rossi, Jacopo del Sallaio, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Cesare da Sesto, Desiderio da Settignano, Sperandio, Titian, Clemente da Urbino, Nicola da Urbino, Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Veneziano, Andrea del Verrocchio, Paolo Veronese, Enea Vico
This resource is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Grove Art Online, made possible by the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.