Web Resources

ART

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html
This is a comprehensive directory of web sites with emphasis on individual artists.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
The Webmuseum - search for artists and information by individual name

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/raphael/raf_ath4.html
Tour the School of Athens – choose your character!

http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.html
Council of Trent documents and information

http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html
A site devoted to Michelangelo's works, biography, and impact.

http://history.evansville.net/renaissa.html
A general site with many links devoted to Renaissance history

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/vaspref.htm
Online texts of various Lives from Vasari's seminal book

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html
The authoritative site on the Sistine Chapel, put out by the Vatican

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/stanzas/0-Raphael.html
Same, for Raphael's Stanze

http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Alberti/index.htm
English text of Alberti's on Painting book

http://www.mcm.acu.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstitle.html
http://www.crs4.it/Ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
Two sites devoted to the relationships between art and science; good parts on perspective

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/
The Webmuseum Renaissance page

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/codex/index.html
Text and illustratrions from Leonardo's Codex Leicester, exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History

http://www.mystudios.com/gallery/giotto/arena.html
Take a virtual tour of Giotto's Arena Chapel

http://www.ewtn.com/gallery/sp/sp1.htm
Take a virtual tour of St. Peter’s complex, with emphasis on architecture