Smarthistory, Introduction to Renaissance Venice [essay and links to related content]
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian Color and Florentine Design
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painting in Oil in the Low Countries and Its Spread to Southern Europe
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renaissance Drawings: Material and Function
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources, Kress Foundation, The Making of an Artist [essays, images, primary sources, and classroom activities on artists’ training and education]
Project Gutenberg, Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists [unabridged, 10 volume translation; free to view online or download]
Google Books, Lodovico Dolce’s Aretin (English edition of L’Aretino, 1770) [free e-book]
Forvo, Italian pronunciations [recordings of Italian word pronunciations in a searchable database]