The Artists of the Renaissance:
Florence - Duomo - The Cathedral
Leonardo
da Vinci - The Art of Invention
Leonardo's Horse
Michelangelo Buonarroti
alternative site: Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Raphael
Albrecht
Dürer
Andrea Palladio
Palladio's Italian
Villas
More
Palladian Buildings
Italian
and European Renaissance Architecture
Important edifices
with footnotes.
Galleria degli Uffizi
A Selection of Renaissance Music
Original Sources from the Renaissance:
Petrarch
A brief biographical
sketch.
Petrarch -- Familiar Letters 1-1
Petrarch
-- Selections from his Correspondences
From James Havey
Robinson, ed. and trans. Francesco Petrarca: The First Modern
Scholar and Man of Letters (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) Some
links are dead.
Boccaccio
- The Decameron Web
An
interactive hypermedia project.
Ficino
Pico Della Mirandola
- Oration on the Dignity of Man (excerpt)
Leonardo da Vinci - Studies of the Human Body and Principles of Anatomy
Nicolo
Machiavelli - The Prince (1515)
Baldessar
Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier (1561)
Thomas
Moore -- Utopia
Catholic Encyclopedia
-- Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus -
In Praise of Folly
Erasmus Text Project
Torquato
Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered (1581)
The Columbus Navigation
The Galileo Project
François Rabelais
Cervantes Project 2001
The Artists of the Baroque Period
Baroque Art
Caravaggio
alternative site: Caravaggio
Peter
Paul Rubens
Rembrandt
alternative site: Rembrandt
Original Sources from the Enlightenment
Francis Bacon - The Essays
(1601)
Francis Bacon - The Advancement of
Learning (1605)
Francis Bacon
- Novum Organum (Preface)
Frances
Bacon - A History of Richard III
Francis Bacon - New Atlantis (forward
by Manly P. Hall)
Sir Francis Bacon Meets The New Advancement of Learning
Rene Descartes - Discourse on
Method
Voltaire
(Foundation) - Candide
Voltaire - Candide
text only
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau - Confessions
text only
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau - The Emile
Immanuel Kant
-"What Is Enlightenment?" (1784)
text only
