Exploring new territories of the mind and the world distinguished the Renaissance. That spirit is revived through an interdisciplinary effort among several colleges at Cornell. Over 5,000 images of European Renaissance art objects, artifacts, architecture, and gardens exist online. A browsing environment enables users to review up to 100 images at a time and extensive descriptive information for each image is only a click away. Images can be accessed through author, title, and place as well as subject and keyword searches.
Users are able to view and compare items in collections that have never been used in combination.
This project affirms that rare manuscripts and artifacts are engaging and useful for young students. Over 30,000 scanned pages from letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications chronicle not only one man's family life in 19th century America, but describe important events in the century's history such as the Civil War, the development of the telegraph, and the founding of Cornell University. A timeline feature organizes the story that is told. Thanks to cooperation between Cornell's Interactive Media Group and the Cornell University Library, elementary students in upstate New York have eagerly explored local history through this website. It consists of an image-bank that is a visual resource for the study of the fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art.