Renaissance

Classical Studies

Caesar’s De bello Gallico

Leonardo da Vinci

Portrait of Michelangelo

Giotto

Voltaire

Medieval Schools

The First Crusade

Conquest of Damietta

Changes in Seignorial System

Italian Banking in the 14th Century

Cosimo de’ Medici

Columbus Setting Sail in 1492

Effects of the Black Death

Rise of the City

Growth of Italian Cities

Rural Life

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II

Papal Palace in Avignon, France

Doges’ Palace, Venice

Lorenzo de' Medici

Renaissance Diplomacy

Louis XI

Henry VII of England

Charles VIII of France

Niccolò Machiavelli

Thomas More’s Utopia

Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

Pope Leo X

Savonarola

Savonarola Put to Death in Florence

John Wycliffe

New Educational Goals

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Petrarch

Plato and the Humanists

Renaissance Nobility

Desiderius Erasmus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Renaissance Science

Leonardo da Vinci's Sketches

Galileo

Raphael’s School of Athens

Alessandro de' Medici

Dante Alighieri

Saltcellar of Francis I

Cervantes

Elizabethan Writers

Renaissance Composition

Saint Francis Fresco Cycle

Masaccio’s Expulsion from Paradise

Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise

David, by Donatello

Michelangelo's David

Duomo, Florence, Italy

Medici-Riccardi Palace

Villa Barbaro by Paladio

Desprez's Missa Pange Lingua

Popular Music of the Renaissance

Galliard by William Byrd

Palestrina’s Missa De Beata Virgine