Webliography 2
This site first gives you an introduction on what the Renaissance is about. It also gives you the meaning of the word Renaissance which is “rebirth.” There are links on the left of the page that follows different topics on the Renaissance. The first link is “Out of the Middle Ages.” This link gives an insight on how the “Black Death” had a big impact in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It also showed how the population dramatically decreased from the plague which then caused an economic depression. The second link, “Exploration and Trade” gives information about the advances in the Renaissance such as maps that made explorers go further than they had before. The next link is “Printing and Thinking.” The page gives shows how Gutenberg invention of the printing press in 1445 changed the lives of people all over the world. Next, the Symmetry, Shape, and Size link tells you how they were used by architecture in the Renaissance and how they influence today’s buildings. The last informative link is “Focus on Florence” which says that the rebirth first occurred in Florence, Italy. It also gives information on what guilds were and how manufacture and trade of cloth and wool was important in Florence. The site gave a good overview on what was happening in the Renaissance and it also gave some visuals.
Renaissance, http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html, 1 November 2005
This site has a standard look and shows the major subjects in the Renaissance. The first headline is its history. It shows the beginnings of the Renaissance when it started in Italy to the establishments of reformation. It also gave how Renaissance scholars and students in the 15th century studied the Greek as well as Latin classics, ancient art and archaeology, and classical history. The next section is “Philosophy, Science, and Social Thought.” This section gives information about philosopher in the Renaissance and the study of science in medicine, physics, and mathematics. In the Influence section, it shows how the Renaissance take part in how the way we do thing right now such as William Shakespeare and his plays are still used today. There are also links to specific areas that the Renaissance was in. They are Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and France. The Renaissance in Italy link show the early to the lat Renaissance which includes the development of arts. The other links also gives insight on artists and art in during the 15 and 16th centuries. This site has gives some information about the Renaissance background but it is mainly for its development of art.
Pioch, Nicholas, La Renaissance, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/, 1 November 2005
The next site gives famous people from the Renaissance. These people include, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Galileo, Sir Thomas More, and Michael Angelo. Other royal persons are included too such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. There are also links to different daily life things the people had. There are information about their clothing, entertainment, and currency. The links from the famous people go to different sites that give information about them. These sites give information about that person and what they accomplished during the Renaissance. For the royalties, they too lead to information about their rule during the Renaissance. The daily life links have details about what they wore, which gave illustration so you can see the similarities and differences they had at the time. Another link was their entertainment that includes music, dancing and plays. One other link that was interesting was the hair styles they had. It says that men took as much pride in their hair as much the women did. Illustrations were also given to show what the hair styles looked like. This site has some broken links but the links that still work have good descriptions on their topic and the illustrations were helpful also.
S. Spagnolo, Renaissance Research Topics, http://www.icubed.com/users/spagnolo/RenaissanceResearch/, 1 November 2005