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The Renaissance
Please see the information on the Renaissance in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance ( REF 940.210321 - found in the adult reference section of the Wilton Library), and try searching our catalog for the subject word Renaissance.
Don't forget to ask the librarian if there are books set aside on school reserve for this topic!
Mon, Fri: 10-6; Tue-Thur: 10-7; Sat: 10-5; Sun: 1-5 (Sept-June)
- Creative Impulse: Renaissance
- An excellent collection of links from an even larger site on the development of western civilization. Includes sections on people, places, events, art, and daily life of the period.
- Digital Dante
- A multimedia translation of The Divine Comedy from Columbia University.
- Galileo Project
- The life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time from Rice University.
- Investigating the Renaissance
- This interactive program from the Harvard University Art Museums demonstrates the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to add to our knowledge about Renaissance paintings and how they were made.
- The Italian Renaissance
- From the WebMuseum, Paris, artists of both Early Renaissance and High Renaissance and their works. See, too, their pages on the Northern Renaissance.
- Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist, Inventor, Artist
- A wonderful interactive online introduction from the Museum of Science in Boston. You may also want to visit Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of Both Worlds.
- Luminarium: 16th Century English Renaissance Literature
- The lives and works of many authors are presented at this beautiful site.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- The life and works of this famous figure of the Renaissance.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- A comprehensive and annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.
- Reformation
- Texts, pictures, and links on the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century from a professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
See also this page from Hanover College.
- The Renaissance
- A concise overview.
- Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
- Early music links collection including MIDI sites where you can hear chant, plainsong and other music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
- Vatican Exhibit
- Drawn from an exhibit at the Library of Congress, this site chronicles the role of the Church in the humanist recovery of the
classical heritage of Greece and Rome during the Renaissance.
- Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time
- A virtual time machine.