Renaissance Art

A gateway to images and information on Italian Renaissance art and artists from an eclectic selection of online resources.

This resource features eight databases created to provide access to the artworks and historical collections of Florentine galleries. Current databases include a catalog and inventory of artworks, a photograph archive, a historical archive, a hymnals archive, an archive of artworks damage during the flood, the Carocci archive, the Medici treasures project, and the Euploos project.

Created by the Metropolitan Museum of art, this resource includes timelines, thematic essays, and illustrative examples of artwork from the museum collection.

This documentary sources database provides access to 200 volumes of documents from the Medici Granducal Archive (Archivio Mediceo del Principato). Documents include letters and biographical records of the Medici Family from 1537-1743. Keyword search, or select document groups based on topic including "Art Collecting" and "Painting."

Includes historical overviews, short artist biographies and and image gallery.

Devoloped by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this timeline uses the museum's collections to illustrate Renaissance art history chronologically, geographically, and thematically. Includes entries for European Renaissance figures, concepts, and places as well as timelines, maps, thematic essays, and further readings.

Explore the Leonardo Da Vinci's life and times through his drawings, paintings, manuscripts and inventions available for browsing in this resource created by the University of the Arts, London