Honors Humanities: Artists of the Renaissance: Home

TheArtStory.org helps millions of people each year understand and enjoy every style of art, from Classical Greek statues, to Dali’s Surrealist concoctions, to Contemporary Conceptual explorations...TheArtStory.Org now has the equivalent of over 19,000 written pages of art content."

A freely available resource, this site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art. Included is an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari in which he remarks on Sofonisba Anguissola and other female artists. 

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts...The museum addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to light important women artists of the past while promoting great women artists working today.

Smarthistory unlocks the expertise of hundreds of scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher.

In this story, recently broadcast on NPR, Sylvia Poggioli, senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk, talks about the foundation, Advancing Women Artists, highlighting several works discovered and restored by the foundation, including "The Last Supper" by Plautilla Nelli.