Performance Task Resources
Social Studies Grade 9: Renaissance Museum

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  The Science Museum—Welcome to Exploring Leonardo
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/leonardo/
Explore this site and learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist—Leonardo da Vinci.

The Italian Renaissance     
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/REN.HTM

This site is the result of two years of teaching World Cultures at Washington State University.  The site is written for freshmen in college and is an excellent resource for teachers.  The Italian Renaissance has links to Ideas of Renaissance, Visual Arts of the Italian Renaissance (with a very good list of artists from this time period), A Gallery of Italian Renaissance, a timeline and an atlas.

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?   
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

This site is part of the Annenberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection.  At this site discover the forces that drove the intellectual and economic changes in Europe from the 14th through the 16th century.

The National Gallery of Art     
http://www.nga.gov/

The National Gallery of Art is a wonderful collection.  One may search the site for a particular artist or for information on a particular era (use Renaissance as the search term).

World Wide Art Resources  
http://wwar.com/

WWA Resources site has over 4000 resources that can be searched by keyword.  The Artist Index (on the left side of the page) has a list of the artists of the Renaissance (over 218 links)

Artcyclopedia: the Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet     
http://artcyclopedia.com/

This site provides links to digital images of an artist's work.  The site can be searched by the artist's name.

WebMuseum   
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
This site is one of the original art sites on the web.  The Famous Painting Collection link has a list of artists with links to information on each artist and an image of one or two of that artist's most important works.

NM's Creative Impulse--Renaissance     
http://history.evansville.net/renaissa.html

NM's Creative Impulse was produced for Pre IB World Studies, Art History and World Civilization students at The Signature Learning Center and The University of Evansville.  The Art section has a great collection of links to artists, architecture and other resources on Renaissance Art.

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