RENAISSANCE: Associated Web Links

Renaissance Architecture

Renaissance Art and Architecture

Renaissance Links on the WWW for Art

Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time
This site combines real people, such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, and real places like the Globe Theatre, Sistine Chapel, Tower of London, and University of Padua, with generic fictionalized locations and citizens, to create an entertaining and inclusive picture of Renaissance life. Information can be accessed through a wide variety of characters, locations, and chronologies as well as a general introduction to the period. There are a myriad of links to related sites and citations to written sources. An outstanding ThinkQuest winner.

Richard III and Yorkist History Server
This site is devoted to the study of King Richard III; the Wars of the Roses; fifteenth-century England; and the reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama. It includes a library of full-text editions and extracts of fifteenth through nineteenth-century sources on the Ricardian controversy; a hypertext edition of the Shakespeare play; essays; and teaching resources. There are links to discussion lists, newsgroups, medieval and renaissance sites, research libraries, and booksellers.

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?
This attractive site describes aspects of the European Renaissance including its origins in the Middle Ages, the rise of navigation and trade, development of the printing press, arts, and the Renaissance in Florence Italy. From Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site.

A compendium of common knowledge. A site rich in detail and general information about Elizabethan England.

Renaissance, the Eliabethan world. the homepage for the compendium, excellent links and historical research.

The World of the Renaissance Many interesting articles, written at a level that year 9-10 students can understand.

Alciato's Book of Emblems, A hypertext reproduction of 2 emblem books of the time. One in Latin the other in the English of the time with woodcut illustrations.

Florence And Tuscany. A site put together by university students focusing on life in Tuscany and Florence.

The Art of Renaissance Science. A scholarly site which examine the relationship between the Arts and the Sciences at that time. Good references and examples.

Art Web Sites: Renaissance Art. A page of useful web site links.

Leonardo Home Page. An excellent resource on Leonardo Da Vinci with teacher notes and plenty of engaging learning activities.

A new perspective on Science and Art. A Good reference on the use of perspective as tools for creating the illusion of reality.

Perspective drawing. An excellent site with diagrams and clear explanations on both the visual and mathematical basis of perspective.

Perspective Art lessons. A site of lessons for home schooled students. Clearly explained, and easy to use with students.

A site dedicated to English literature from medieval through to 17th Century, concise biographies of writers with some examples of their work.

The voice of the shuttle An English literature search page. Listings by period, place and genre, plus a comprehensive search engine.

The Renaissance food homepage. This seems to be the base site on the web for Renaissance food, everyone points to it! A comprehensive look at the food of the era, as well as excellent recipes both in Renaissance and modern English.

Kateryn de Develyn's homepage. Several well researched feasts are described in detail, as well as recipes and a section on sausages.

Terry's Culinary history page. Some good recipes, but the real strength of the site is the detailed historical research into the food of the times.

Gode Cookery. A site dedicated to Medieval and Renaissance cookery. Good recipes, and information. The starting point for the Gode Cookery Webring.

The Olde Cookery Book. An excellent reference site, good recipes, an excellent glossay of terms and materials.