Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art / The Italian Renaissance: Image Resources

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, originally published in 2000, presents the Met's collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history.
Authored by the Met's experts—predominantly made up of curators but also of conservators, scientists, and educators—the Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.

The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art.

Explore thousands of the most significant works of art from the Renaissance to the present day

The National Gallery houses the national collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries

Search the online collection at the Louvre, look at their online exhibits and learn more about works of art.

The “Galleria degl Uffizi” is one of the most famous museums in the world given the rich amount of unique artworks and masterpieces conserved within its walls, the majority from the Renaissance period. Its large collection has works from all centuries but a large part dates back to the periods between the 12th and 17th centuries.

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The Gemäldegalerie boasts one of the world’s most important collections of European painting ranging from the 13th to 18th century. Masterpieces from all epochs in the history of art are on permanent display here, including paintings by Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, and Jan Vermeer van Delft. The gallery is especially proud of its strong collection of German and Italian painting from the 13th to 16th century and painting from the Low Countries dating from the 15th to 17th century.