Renaissance Art and Architecture

General Resources

• 15th Century Renaissance Art Links
• 16th Century Renaissance Art Links
• Artcyclopedia
  • Early Renaissance
  • High Renaissance
• Addio Gallery
• Art of Renaissance Science
• Art of the Renaissance
• La Renaissance [WebMuseum]
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
• Sullivan, Mary Ann. "Oh What a Difference a Difference Makes: Gender in the Visual Arts."

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

• Giorgio Vasari Online (Artcyclopedia)
• Lives of the Artists, selections
• Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550) (with images from the artists)
  • Giotto
  • Luca della Robbia
  • Uccello
  • Ghiberti
  • Brunelleschi
  • Donatello

The Development of Perspective

• Brunelleschi, Filippo (1377-1446)
  • Brunelleschi and Perspective
  • Brunelleschi's Buildings (Great Buildings Online)
    • Pazzi Chapel (also Mary Ann Sullivan's site)
    • San Lorenzo, Florence
  • Filippo Brunelleschi Online (Artchive)
  • Dome of the Cathedral, Duomo, Florence
    
    
• Perspective
  • Perspective Construction & Optical Aids
    • One point perspective
    • Construction Lines
    • Multiple Vanishing Points
    • Globes
    • Canaletto & palaces
  • Leonardo's Perspective
    • Perspective example
  • Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art
  • Perspective Links

Architecture

• Architecture and Public Space
  
  
• Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472)
  • Alberti (Great Buildings Online)
    • S. Andrea
    • S. Maria Novella
    • San Sebastiano

Artists

Artists: Italian

• La Renaissance: Italy
  
  
• Archimboldo, Guiseppe (1527?-1593)
  • Archimboldo (Artcyclopedia)
    
    
• Botticelli, Sandro (1445-1510)
  • Sandro Botticelli (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Adoration of the Magi (1470-1475)
    • The Birth of Venus (1485-1486)
      
      
• da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)
  • Exploring Leonardo
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Vasari: Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
  • Leonardo da Vinci (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • The Last Supper (1498) (also Artchive)
    • Ginevra di Benci (1474) (also Artchive, with face detail and landscape detail)
    • Mona Lisa / La Gioconda (also Artchive)
      • See Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q.
    • Adoration of the Magi (1481-2) (also Artchive)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (Artchive)
    • Study of Cat Movements and Positions (1517-1518)
      
      
• Donatello (1386-1466)
  • Donatello (Artchive)
    • David (1412)
    • David (1444-46)
    • The Penitent Magdalene, with detail (1453-55)
  • Donatello Online (Artcyclopedia)
    
    
• Piero della Francesca (1420-1492)
  • Piero della Francesca (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1451)
    • Resurrection (1463)
    • Frescoes in San Francesco (1466)
      
      
• Masaccio (1402-1428)
  • Masaccio (Artchive)
    • Trinity, with detail of John and detail of Mary (1427-8)
    • The Tribute Money left and right
  • Masaccio Online (Artcyclopedia)
    
    
• Michelangelo (1475-1564)
  • Michelangelo (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Creation of Man (Sistine Chapel fragment, 1511-12)
  • David
    • David page
    • Digital Michelangelo Project (3D David)
      
      
• Raphael (1483-1520)
  • Raphael (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • St. George Fighting the Dragon (1504-6)
    • Madonna dell Granduca (1505)
    • Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals (1518)
    • School of Athens (1510-11)
  • Raphael (Artchive)
    
    
• Tintoretto (1518-1594)
  • Tintoretto (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • St. George and the Dragon (1555-1558)
  • Tintoretto (Artchive)
    
    
• Titian (1485-1576)
  • Titian (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Madonna with Saints and Members of the Pesaro family (also Artchive)
  • Titian (Artchive)
    • Sacred and Profane Love (1514)
      
      
• Veronese, Paolo (1528-88)
  • Veronese (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Marriage at Cana (1562-3)
    • Allegory of Wisdom and Strength (1580)
  • Veronese (Artchive)

Artists: Dutch/Flemish

• La Renaissance: The Netherlands
  
  
• Jan van Eyck (1395?-1441)
  • Jan van Eyck (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Ghent Altarpiece (1432)
    • Adoration of the Lamb (1432)
    • The Arnolfini Marriage (1434)
  • Jan van Eyck (Artchive)
  • van Eyck images
    
    
• Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516)
  • Bosch (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Seven Deadly Sins (1485)
    • The Haywain (1485-1490)
    • Christ Carrying His Cross (1490)
    • Death and the Miser (1490)
    • The Ship of Fools (1490-1500)
    • The Temptation of St. Anthony (1500)
    • The Garden of Earthly Delight (1504)
    • Paradise and Hell (1510)
      
      
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569)
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • The Peasant Wedding (1568)
    • The Triumph of Death (1562)
    • Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) (1562)
    • Tower of Babel (1563)
    • "Little" Tower of Babel (1563)
    • Fall of the Rebel Angels

Artists: German

• La Renaissance: Germany
  
  
• Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538)
  • Albrecht Altdorfer (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Landscape with Satyr Family (1507)
    • St. George in the Forest (1510)
    • Nativity (1513)
    • Legend of St. Sebastian and the Passion of the Christ (1518)
    • St. Florian Altarpiece (1520)
    • Landscape with Footbridge (1518-1520)
    • View of the Danube near Regensburg (1520-1525)
    • Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529)
    • Allegory (1531)
      
      
• Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1504)
    • The Trinity (undated)
    • Venus Standing in a Landscape (1529)
      
      
• Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
  • Albrecht Durer (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • St. Michael's fight against the dragon (1498)
    • Self Portrait at 26 (1498)
      
      
• Matthias Grunewald (1475-1528)
  • Matthias Grunewald (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • The Cruxifixion (1515)
    • Isenheimer Alterpiece (1510-1515)
      
      
• Hans Holbein the Younger (1465-1524)
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (WebMuseum local mirror)
    • Sir Brian Tuke (1527)
    • The Virgin and Child with the family of Burgomaster Meyer (1528)
    • Georg Gisze (1532)