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Northern Renaissance Chap. 17 Sec. 2

Northern Renaissance Begins

¤ 1450- Population begins to grow

¤ 1453- Hundred Years War ends

¤ Wealth increased in Europe

Northern Renaissance Begins

¤ England and France are ruled by monarchy’s

¤ Monarchs support artists by purchasing art

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Northern Renaissance Begins

¤ Renaissance spreads from Italy and blends with Northern traditions

¤ Artists focus on realism

Ideas Spread

¤ 1494- war breaks out in Italy ¤ Artists leave for Northern Europe

¤ Spread and sharing of ideas between Europeans

German Painters

¤ Albrecht Durer ¤  Studied in Italy in

1494 ¤ Woodcuts and

engravings ¤ Religious,

landscape and mythological

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German Painter

¤  Portraits that are almost photographic

¤  Immigrated to England

¤  Painted Henry VIII and the royal family

Han Holbein Portrait of Henry VIII

Flemish Painters

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Flemish Painters

¤ Jan van Eyck ¤ New oil based

paints

¤ New ideas spread to Italy

Jan van Eyck

Flemish Painters

¤ Reached peak in 1550 with Pieter Bruegel ¤ Realistic individual

detail

¤  Every day peasant life

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Peasant Wedding

Christian Humanists

¤ Examine traditional teaching of the church

¤ Focus to reform society

¤ Promoted the education of women

Christian Humanists

¤ Desuderius Erasmus ¤  1509- Wrote “The Praise of Folly”

¤ Poked fun at different groups of people ¤  Believed all people should study the Bible

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Christian Humanists

¤ Thomas More ¤ Wrote Utopia

¤ Utopia mean “ideal world” ¤  Imaginary land where greed corruption, and war

were gone

Women’s Reform

¤ Christine de Pizan ¤  Educated women for her time

¤ Wrote The Book of the City Ladies ¤  First to question the different treatment of boys

and girls

The Elizabethan Age

¤ Called Elizabethan Age after Queen Elizabeth I ¤ Reigned from

1558-1603

¤ As queen she did much to support the arts

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William Shakespeare

¤ Most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age

¤ By 1592 he lived in London

¤ Preformed at the Globe Theater

¤ Many plays examine human flaws

Globe Theater

Printing Press

¤ Johann Gutenberg- Germany-1440 ¤ Uses woodblocks on a press

¤  Idea came from from Asia ¤ Using movable type- first book is created

¤ Gutenberg Bible

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Printing Press

Printing Press

¤ Easier to produce written material

¤ Books became cheap ¤ More people could afford them

¤ Helps with the spread of ideas