Project Page for 6g IDS Renaissance Project

These are some excellent web tours that give you background information about the Renaissance. Take time to “travel” through them and learn.

The Renaissance Connection
Renaissance – What inspired this age? from PBS
Mr.
Dowling’s Electronic Passport: The Renaissance


Renaissance Maps

Who’s Who in the Renaissance & Reformation?

Who were the amazine artists, scientists, explorers, writers & thinkers of the Renaissance and Reformation? They were incredible risk-takers & made many changes in the world of their time. Listed below are some websites about individuals you will choose to study. And don’t forget to use
Biography Resource Center, World Book Encyclopedia, and
Britannica on the BroncoNET homepage
for additional information.

Rulers
Edward IV (England)
Henry VIII (England)
Anne Boleyn (England)
Mary Tudor (England)
Elizabeth I (England)
Mary Stuart (England) – from the BBC
Philip II (Spain)
Lorenzo [the Magnificent] de Medici (Italy)
Giovanni de Medici/Pope Leo X
King Ferdinand (Portugal)

Queen Isabella (Portugal)
Charles VII (France)
Louis XII (France)
Explorers
Christopher Columbus (Italian)
John Cabot (Italian)
Sebastian Cabot (Italian)
Amerigo Vespucci (Italian)
Francisco Pizarro (Spanish) use links @left
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish)
Hernando de Soto (Spanish)
Vasco da Gama (Portuguese)another Vasco da Gama site
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese)
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese)
Ponce de Leon (Spanish)
Artists
Renaissance Art
Botticelli
Donatello
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci timeline w/ illustrations
Michelangelo Buonarroti
another Michelangelo site
Raphael
Titian
Albrecht Durer
Rembrandt van Rijn
Rubens
Musicians
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina
Scientists, Mathematicians
Galileo Galilei
another
Galileo site

Nicolas Copernicus
Isaac Newton
another Newton site
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg bio – from his hometown
John Napier & Napier’s BonesWomen of Reknown
Isabella d’Este, First Lady of the Renaissance (portrait)
Catherine de Medici
Religious Leaders
Martin Luther
Joan of Arc
Desiderius Erasmus
John Knox
John Calvin
Writers
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
Miguel de Cervantes