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Welcome to The Renaissance Connection! The Allentown Art Museum celebrates the launch of this much-anticipated project, which started simply as an idea to integrate the middle school curricula with the Museum's Samuel H. Kress collection of Renaissance art.
Over a period of four years this kernel of an idea has evolved into a collaborative project that brought together the enthusiasm and expertise of teachers, professors, museum educators, dedicated volunteers, and web specialists from throughout the Lehigh Valley and beyond to create the Museum's first on-line educational initiative.
With a simple click of a mouse, you and your students can now travel 500 years into the past via an interactive educational web site, complete with digital images of artworks from the Kress collection, interactive activities, lesson plans, a timeline, maps, and more.
Through the "Be a Patron" activity, students can role-play the commissioning of an artwork, while "Time Telescope" allows them to trace today's innovations, such as digital cameras, back to their Renaissance roots. A stroll along the timeline helps students explore six core themes of the Renaissance, and you can enhance the learning process with thirty-seven art works, lesson plans, and interactive maps. The Renaissance Connection web site puts a focus on integrated learning that would make Leonardo da Vinci proud!
The Renaissance Connection is supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Rider-Pool Foundation.
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