The RenaissanceNorth and South

Basic Ideas• Meaning of Renaissance

– Giorgio Vasari– French historians

• Humanism– Study of Classical texts and art– Petrarch – Vernacular

• Time line • Locations

– Italy– Northern Europe

The Italian States

Renaissance Italy

• Not unified• Public service • Autocratic Rulers and

political intrigue– Medicis– Niccolo Machiavelli – Alexander VI– Julius II

• Trade with the East– Sumptuary laws

Art & Culture

• “From artisan to artist”• Linear perspective and

vanishing point– Classical influence– Spiritual essence – Realism

• Political writings– The Prince

• Idea of the “Renaissance Man”

EuropeNorthern

Northern Europe

• Everywhere that isn’t Italy– France– Flanders (Modern-day

Belgium) – England– Holy Roman Empire

• Ruled by kings, emperors, and dukes

Northern Humanists• Scholarly• Believed in the vernacular• “Christian humanists”

– Christianity in history – Desiderius Erasmus– Thomas More– Reuchlin (Studied Judaism)

• Gutenberg and the printing press– Upper and lower case

letters

Northern Art

• Centered in Flanders– Studied in Italy

• Painted with oil, not tempera

• More religious • Ordinary subjects• Realism • Portraits