A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Michelangelo

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Leonardo da Vinci

General Sites

• His Official We Site for 2010.
• Vasari's Life of Leonardo da Vinci.
• Legends of Leonardo A consideration of several interpretations of his life and art, from Vasari to Freud and Leo Steinberg.
• Leonardo da Vinci. By Walter Pater, 1869.
• Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist From the Museum of Science, Boston. Movies, multimedia sites, biography, more.
• Exploring Leonardo "A resource for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network."
• Leonardo at the Museo della Scienza, Milan In English.
• Leonardo da Vinci An overview of his life and creations from the WebMuseum, Paris.
• Leonardo's Manuscripts Part of the Museo della Scienza site, this is a history of the drawings--gathered together after his death into several manuscripts--and outlines their contents and modern locations.

Leonardo's Inventions

• The Leonardo Da Vinci Museum In Vinci.
• Leonardo da Vinci A site from UC Berkeley evaluating his studies as a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist.
• The Codex Leicester As seen at the American Museum of Natural History.
• An assault chariot (primitive tank)

The Drawings of Leonardo

• The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci Excellent collection, but a very big site.
• Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman The online version of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003.
• A sheet of studies About 1470/1480. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
• Leonardo's Cartoon for the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist At the National Gallery of Art, London.

Leonardo's Paintings

• The Web Gallery of Art
• Ginevra de'Benci About 1474. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
• The Lady with the Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani?) Circa 1490. Krakow, Czartoryski Muzeum. This is her Facebook page...
• Ermine Lady in Czartoryski Muzeum.
• The Virgin of the Rocks From the National Gallery of Art, London.
• Why is Mona Lisa Smiling? If you find out, let me know. Actually the theory proposed here--that this is a self-portrait--is utterly nuts but popular.
• Il Cenacolo. On Leonardo's Last Supper
• A new da Vinci portrait?

Raphael

General Sources for Raphael

• Vasari's Life of Raphael With those of Pietro Perugino and Pinturicchio.
• Paintings, drawings, frescoes.
• A collection of his paintings
• Another collection, mostly of early paintings

Specific Paintings by Raphael

• St. George and the Dragon 1504. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
• The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna 1508. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
• The Alba Madonna Circa 1510. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Portrait of Bindo Altoviti Circa 1515. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Drawings by Raphael

• Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist 1507. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
• A Marble Horse on the Quirinal Hill 1513/1514. Recto. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Michelangelo

General Sources for Michelangelo

• Vasari's Life of Michelangelo
• Michelangelo's Life and Works. From Michelangelo.com.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti A collection of links from OCAIW.
• His monument in Santa Croce, Florence From Find-a-Grave.
• On Michelangelo The WebMuseum.
• Michelangelo and his art Smallish but good collection from Olga's Gallery.
• A large collection of his drawings, paintings, sculpture, and frescoes See also below.
• Large biographyand images of painting, sculpture and architecture.
• Another Michelangelo site
• The Casa Buonarroti, Florence Now a museum of Michelangelo's drawings and early sculptures.
• An online exhibition of a 1623 edition of Michelangelo's poetry Duke University.
• Michelangelo and His World by Joachim Poeschke A review from the Standard-Times, Massachusetts.

Michelangelo as a Painter

• Michelangelo and the Florentine School Room From the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
• Another site, chiefly of the painting of Michelangelo
• Some of his paintings

Michelangelo's Drawings

• Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle. An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum.
• Some drawings and some details from the Sistine Ceiling. From World Cultures.

Michelangelo as a Sculptor

• Some Sculpture Thais.
• Where the marble came from: a site devoted to photographs of the marble mountains of Carrara.
• On the Cupid from the French Cultural Institute in New York City.
• Sculpture Kitsch Plastic David; plastic Pieta; all sizes. Various bits available separately.

Michelangelo as Architect

• The Laurentian Library Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, 1525 ca.
• Quicktime movie of the crossing of St. Peter's

Individual Sculptures, Painting, and other Projects

David

• Views of the David
• face of David
• David From Corbis.

Tondo Doni

• Circa 1507. Reproduction from ExhibArt. Click on any part for an enlarged detail.
• Another interactive site From James Madison University.

Tomb of Julius II

• The Tomb of Pope Julius II Drawings, plans, sculptures. Thank you Columbia University!
• The Julius Tomb as completed Good-quality image from Olga's Gallery.
• The various sculptural remains

Sistine Ceiling

• Several very bright views
• The Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

The New Sacristy (Medici Chapel)

• The New Sacristy (Medici Chapel)
• The sculpture

The Last Judgement

• The Last Judgment

Michelangelo as architect in Rome

• An aerial view of Capitoline Hill

Academic Courses on Italian Renaissance Art History

Courses listed include online and foreign-study offerings.

• Online Course: Italian Renaissance Art. Oxford University.
• Italian Renaissance [Art]. Allegheny College. Online course. No professor listed.

• Histoy of Italian Renaissance Art. Taught by Dr. Allen Farber, Oneonta University.
• Italian Renaissance Art. Taught by Prof. Liana Cheney at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
• Italian Renaissance Art. Taught by Prof. Shelley Stone, California State University, Bakersfield.
• Early Italian Renaissance Art. Taught at University of Massachusetts by Prof. Pamela Jones.
• Fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance Art.
• Sixteenth-century Italian Reb=naissanc art.
• Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture. NYU School of Continuing and Professional Education.
• Italian Renaissance Art. UC San Diego Extension.
• Italian Renaissance Art I. University of Michigan.
• Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture. Taught by Professor C. Jean Campbell, Emory University.
• Art, Gender, and Society in Renaissance Italy. University of Pennsylvania, College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
• Studies in Early Modern Aesthetics: Love, Lust and Desire in Italian Renaissance Art. University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• M. A. in Florence. On the Syracuse University program.
• The British Institute of Florence. Learn about the Renaissance in Florence.
• Italian Renaissance Art. Taught in Florence through Queens College, CUNY.
• Topics in Italian Renaissance Art. Taught at Ca'Foscari-Harvard in Venice.