http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
This is the Web Gallery of Art website and you can view all major works of Art and sculptures right down to 1850 on it. The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850). It currently contains over 20.300 reproductions.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15962/index.3.html
Biographies of all of the major Italian artists of the Renaissance.
http://www.abcgallery.com/
This is the site of Olga’s gallery and it has many of the works of Art on it from the Renaissance.
William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm
Interesting profile of Shakespeare’s life and times that includes extensive use of sources from the period.
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/
PBS website to accompany TV series called In Search of Shakespeare - the Playwright game is interesting
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
A website that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Shakespeare.
Developments in Printing, Science and Medicine
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/printing.html
Easy to follow page that looks at the impact of the invention of printing.
http://www.gutenberg.de/english/erfindun.htm
Explanation of Gutenberg’s printing press from a website dedicated to the memory of the famous printer form Mainz.
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/basics.html
Interesting piece about Gutenberg and the bible that made him famous.
http://galileo.rice.edu/galileo.html
A very detailed biography of the greatest scientist of the Renaissance, Galileo. It is part of the Galileo Project website.
