The 15c and the Italian Renaissance  16c Renaissance English Literature:  1485-1603 (Luminarium site) Absolute Shakespeare - The Essential Resource The Age of Charles V (1338-1380) "The Art of Renaissance Science" - articles by Prof. Joseph W. Dauben at Center for Advanced Studies in Sardinia Boticelli, Sandro (Web Museum) Breughel, Pieter the Elder (Web Museum) Bruges and the Flemish "Primitives" Caravaggio (Web Museum) The Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Cervantes-Related Website on the Internet The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Dante in Print The Decameron Web The Digital Michelangelo Project Early Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works The Early Renaissance in Florence (National Gallery of Art) The Economy of Europe in the Renaissance (E L Skip-Knox) Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Exploring Leonardo Exploring the Sistine Chapel Ceiling "Feasts, Fairs and Festivals: Mirrors of Renaissance Society" - Linda Maynard Powell The Florence Art Guide:  Index Fra Angelico Francesco Petrarch's "Familial Letters"  The French Monarchy:  Genealogical Chart of the House of Valois Giotto High Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works Historiography of the Renaissance A History of Neoplatonism The History of Renaissance Architecture - many photos Humanism "The Ideas and Ideals of Man, From the Renaissance to the Reformation" - Peter N. Herdon "The Illusion of the Renaissance" - Sandra Willard Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  "The Early Modern West" The Italian Renaissance Art Project Italian Renaissance Gardens Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (entire text of the book) Leonardo da Vinci:  "Man of Both Worlds "Le Poulet Gauche - Life in 16c France The Life and Times of William Shakespeare Life in Elizabethan England Mannerism (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works Mannerism (World Art Treasures) Map-->"Europe in 1400" Map-->"Europe in 1500" Map-->"Muslim and Mongol Empires: 1000-1500 Map-->"Renaissance Europe" Map-->"Renaissance Italy: 1494 The Medici Archive Project The Medici Family Tree The Medici:  Godfathers of the Renaissance (PBS) "The Medieval Synthesis and the Discovery of Man: The Renaissance" - Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History Michelangelo Neo-Platonism NM's Creative Impulse: The Development of Civilization: World History -- The Renaissance (mucho links) Northern Renaissance Art (Artcyclopedia) - large list of artists & their works Outline of the Literature of the Renaissance Piero della Francesca (Web Museum) People of Ideas:  The Renaissance & Reformation Political Movers and Shakers of the Renaissance and Reformation Printing:  The Renaissance & Reformation "Cinquecento 16th Century" (National Gallery of Australia - 3 Centuries of Italian Art) The Renaissance [from the series "Engines of Our Ingenuity"] The Renaissance:  What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? (PBS/Annenberg Project) Renaissance Art - a compendium of individual paintings/sculptures Renaissance Art (World Art Treasures) Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Renaissance Epics The Renaissance in France Renaissance Italian Sculpture Renaissance Maps:  1500-1700 Renaissance Paintings Gallery Renaissance Secrets (BBC-Open University series) Renaissance Sites Renaissance Women Online Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne Tapestries-Wall Hangings--> The Renaissance Thomas More The Thomas More Society Titian Tudor England: 1495-1603 The Turks and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire Virtual Renaissance:  A Journey Through Time Women Philosophers of the Renaissance The Works of William Shakespeare (full texts of all plays!)

     
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750-800:  The Donation of Constantine 1340s?:  Secretum - Petrach 1345:  "Letter to Cicero" - Petrarch 1348:  Plague & Public Health in Renaissance Europe 1348-53:  Day 10 - Griselda story - Boccaccio's Decameron     (full text of the entire work) 1350:  "The Plague Hits Florence" - Boccaccio 1400:  "The New Education" - Petrus Paulus Vergarius   15c:  Oration on the Dignity of Man - Pico della Mirandola   15c:  The Painter - Leonardo da Vinci 1425:  "The Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St. John" - painting by Masaccio 1427:  Online Catasto Database 1434:  "The Arnolfini Marriage" - painting by Jan van Eyck 1440:  "David" - bronze sculpture by Donatello 1450s:  Gutenberg Bible 1459:  Two Tractates from Vittorino da Feltre and other Humanist Educators 1465-70:  "The Dutchess of Urbino" and "The Duke of Urbino" - portrait paintings by Piero della Francesca 1480:  "The Birth of Venus" - painting by Sandro Boticelli 1485:  Bust of Lorenzo de Medici by Veroccio 1491:  Paternal Advice to a Cardinal - Lorenzo de' Medici 1492:  "Lament on the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici - Angelo Poliziano 1495:  Compact between Spain and Portugal, signed by the Catholic Sovereigns at Madrid 1498:  "The Last Supper" - painting by Leonardo da Vinci 1499:  "The Pietà" - sculpture by Michelangelo early 1500s:  "The School of Athens" - painting by Raphael --> identify the characters 1503-6:  "The Mona Lisa" - painting by Leonardo da Vinci 1505:  "The Small Cowper Madonna" - painting by Raphael 1504:  "David" - sculpture by Michelangelo(1)   (2)  (3) 1508-12:  "The Sistine Chapel" - frescoes by Michelangelo   -  "Last Judgment"       "The Creation of Man"         "The Creation of the Heavens" 1509:  The Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus 1513:  The Handbook of the Courtier - Baldassare Castiglione (full text) 1515:  Leonardo's Notes on the Cosmos   1515:  The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (full text) 1516:  Utopia - Sir Thomas More (full text) 1530s:  Several of Michelangelo's Sonnets 1540s:  Letter from Gargantua to his Son Pantagruel - François Rabelais 1550:  Giorgio Vasari - Excerpts from Life of da Vinci 1550:  "Michelangelo" - Giorgio Vasari 1575:  Essays - Michel de Montaigne 1580:  On Cannibals - Michel de Montaigne 1598:  The First Set of English Madrigals - John Wilbye 1601:  Essays - Sir Francis Bacon 1605:  "Of the good fortune which the valiant Don Quixote had in the Terrible and Undreamed-of Adventure of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences Worthy to be Fitly Recorded" - from Cervantes' Don Quixote