Renaissance Art

This site explores the major masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art with artists such as Giotto, Botticelli, Donatello, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Piero Della Francesca and Mantegna. The work of the High Renaissance masters Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are also featured.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700). It contains over 5,000 reproductions.

The Louvre provides information to accompany a visitor trail of paintings of the Italian Renaissance in its collection. Works include Giotto, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Malatesta, Messina, da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Lotto.

A collaboration between the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Grove Art Online, this site has eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art, with images and essays.

The Art Encyclopaedia presents the history, characteristics, causes and techniques of the Renaissance, and has a chronological list of artists with further information.

This webpage provides a brief explanation of the term Renaissance and then describes some of the key figures in the period such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Erasmus.

Robin Urton presents a history of the Italian Renaissance beginning with the early artists, then exploring Leonardo's manuscripts and paintings, Michelangelo and Raphael.

This website explores the works of the following artists: Gentile da Fabriano; Masaccio; Fra Angelico; Uccello; Fra Filippo Lippi; Veneziano; Perugino; Ghirlandaio; Botticelli; Piero della Francesca; Signorelli and Martini