Northern renaissance

Albercht Durer

German artist who produced woodcuts and engravings, portrayed religious subjects, classical myths and realistic landscapes

Hans Holbein

German artist influenced by durer, specialized in painting portraits almost photographic in detail

Ian van eyck

First great Flemish painter of the Northern Renaissance, known for his use of oil paints and detailed realism.

Pieter Bruegel

Flemish painter whos paintings provided info about peasant life in the 1500s 

Christian humanism

focus on the reform of society regarding the failure of the christian church to inspire people to live a christian life 

Best known christian humanists

Desiderius Erasmus of Holland and Thomas More of England

Erasmus

Believed in christianity of the heart, noot one of ceremonies or rules

The Praise of Folly

by erasmus, poked fun at greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars and pompous priests

Thomas more

tried to show a better model of society and wrote book utopia

utopia

written by thomas more, its about an imaginary land where greed corruption and war have been weeded out, little use for money

utopia means

in green: no place and in english: ideal place

The book of the city of ladies

about the objection men had to educating women written by christine de prian

christine de prian

highly educated women and one of the first women to earn a living as a writer

Elizabeth I

reigned 1558 to 1603, wrote poetry and music and spoke four languages, elizabethan age named after her

william shakespeare

most famous writer of elizabethan age, greatest playwright of all time, wrote poems and plays, deep understanding of human beings 

williams most famous plays

hamlet macbeth othello romeo and juliet and king lear

Block printing

invetnted by chinese, where a printer carves words or letters on a wooden block, inked the block and then used it to print on paper

Bisheng

1045 invented moveable type

moveable type

uses separate piece of type for each character in the language

parchment made of 

animal hides

paper replaced parchment because

parchment was expensive and could not be massproduced

Johann gutenberg

developed a printing press which allowed production of books quickly and cheaply in 1440

printing press mass production one and two

one: mainly religious works two: books travel guides and medical manuals