A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

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General Topics on the Italian Renaissance

• La Renaissance: Italy From the WebMuseum, Paris.
• Backgrounds to the Early Italian Renaissance By Richard Hooker at Washington State University.
• Early Modern: the Italian Renaissance Also by Richard Hooker.
• The RenaissanceAn experimental, multimedia site. Survey level.
• Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance Web site for the PBS programs.

Renaissance Societies

• Villa I Tatti
• Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies At the University of Toronto
• The Renaissance Society of America
• UCLA Medieval-Renaissance Center
• Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara
• University of Oklahoma Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Looks like this hasn't been updated since 2002!

Image Collections for the Entire Period

• The Web Gallery of Art "a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15,400 reproductions."
• The Renaissance and Baroque Prof. Chris Witcombe's exhaustive collection of image sites
• The Art of Renaissance Science Galileo and Perspective.

Renaissance Architecture: Churches, Villas, and Gardens

• Italy in the Time of the Renaissance and Baroque Style Part of the larger Gardens site.
• Garden Tours of Italy
• The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
• Classical Italian Villas & Gardens: A Tour in the Footsteps of Edith Wharton A 2003 tour sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America.
• Villa Gamberaia. Located just outside Florence.
• Architecture in Renaissance Italy From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
• Architecture and Public Space
• Palladio's Italian [sic] Villas
• Papal Villas of Latium A small site on the Villa Lante in Bagnaia.

Online Texts for the Italian Renaissance

Many of these texts are in Italian.

• Vasari's Lives of the Artists With illustrations and bibliography (in process).
• Vasari: Lives Rather mysterious in origin: uses the George Bull translation (did the editor ask permission?) and the identity of the editor remains unknown. Handsome design and has a search engine.
• The Italian Renaissance: Internet Archive of Texts and Documents Large collection of texts from Petrarca to Vasari. Plus Burckhardt; modern articles are links to JSTOR that won't work for you if you are not among the anointed.
• The Digital Dante Project At Columbia University.
• The Princeton Dante Project
• Dante on the Web Full texts--sometimes several editions of his works--and commentary. Distracting background--editor's attitude is "too bad."
• On Dante From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908.
• The Decameron From Brown University.
• Renaissance: from the Medieval Sourcebook Links to online texts from Dante to Burckhardt.
• Italian Renaissance Reader Small collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and Pico della Mirandola.
• Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
• The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli 1515. This is a 1908 translation. Also in Italian.
• The Book of the Courtier Sir Thomas Hoby's 1561 English translation. Published 1900.
• Orlando Furioso By Ludovico Ariosto. First published in 1516; this is the English translation of 1823/31 by William Stewart Rose. From UC Berkeley.
• Orlando Furioso Another edition of the Rose translation. Linked to Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne.

Pietro Aretino

• Pietro Aretino sulla storiografica artistica recente (dopo il 1957) su Sansovino, Tintoretto e Tiziano Thesis by M. C. Brouwer from the University of Utrecht, 2005.
• Pietro Aretino e-book A collection of texts, including Astolfeida, La Cortigiana, and Sonetti lussuriosi.
• Ragionamento
• Marfisa 1533.
• Sonetti lussuriosi

Torquato Tasso

• Gerusalemme Liberata By Torquato Tasso. First published 1581. English translation by Henry Morley, 1901. From UC Berkeley.

• Alciato's Book of Emblems In Latin, in English, and in Latin-English parallel texts. Also links to other emblem sites.

Modern and Contemporary Studies of the Italian Renaissance

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt Full text. Edition of 1878. Hypertext of the SGC Middlemore 1878 translation from Boise State University.
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt.
• On Walter Pater and his writings.
• Pater's essay on Pico della Mirandola
• Walter Pater's Preface to the Renaissance
• From Pater's The Renaissance "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
• The Florentine Catasto of 1427 By David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. From Brown University.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia The ever-growing online version of the 1913 edition.
• Renaissance Art Links A wide variety of sites and topics put together by Jeffery Howe of Boston College.
• How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians Quite frank advertisment for a book on the private lives of Italians during the Renaissance.
• The Medici Archive Project Coverage is 1537-1743.

Online Exhibitions on the Renaissance

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage A version of the exhibit at the Library of Congress.
• Tour of Italian Renaissance ceramics From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• See also News on Italian Renaissance Art

Programs and Courses concerning the Italian Renaissance

• Art History 202 Renaissance to Modern, taught by Prof. Andrzejewski, at the University of Wisconsin.
• Italian Art: the world picture, 1300-1600 This is Art History 110 from Cornell University.
• Art of the Italian Renaissance Taught by Jaynie Anderson at the University of Melbourne.
• The Age of Michelangelo Taught by David Marshall at the University of Melbourne.
• Italian Renaissance Architecture Taught by Prof. Minott Kerr at Reed College.
• Survey of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture Taught by someone you know.
• Syracuse University's M.A. Program in Florence Follow the links to the site.
• The Italian Renaissance/Early Modern A collection of online resources, basically historical in subject. Seems to still be under construction. From Washington State University.
• Medieval and Renaissance History Very fully described, with bibliography, illustrations, and maps. From Syracuse University.

Some General Resources for Italy

• Welcome to Italy A collection of cultural and tourist sources for 50 cities in Italy.
• Youth Hostels in Italy
• Study Abroad : Italy Thorough and well-maintained list of programs for undergraduates and graduates.
• Musei Online Addresses, events, links, to the 3,000 museums in Italy.
• Yahoo Italy and Virgilio, the Italian Websearcher

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