AP Euro Topic 1.3 Northern Renaissance Terms and Names (Amsco Bolded)

AMSCO AP Euro 1.3

Northern Renaissance

Cultural and intellectual movement of northern Europe; began later than Italian Renaissance c. 1450; centered in France, Low Countries , England, and Germany; featured greater emphasis on religion than Italian Renaissance

Albrecht Durer

Northern Renaissance artist, he often used woodcutting along with Italian Renaissance techniques like proportion, perspective and modeling.

Jan van Eyck

Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Flemish Renaissance painter known for landscapes and depictions of peasant life

Rembrandt van Rijn

greatest Dutch artists of his time; painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants and biblical stories.

Christian Humanism

a movement that developed in northern Europe during the renaissance combining classical learning with the goal of reforming the Catholic Church

Desiderius Erasmus

Dutch humanist and theologian --although his criticisms of the Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther. he wrote The Praise of Folly and translated the New Testament into Greek (1466-1536)

The Praise of Folly

an essay written by Erasmus that uses satire to point out corrupt practices of the Church.

Thomas More

English humanist who wrote Utopia, a book that represented a revolutionary view of society where the people lived in harmony, sharing resources.

Utopia

Book written by Thomas More that described an imagined place in which everything is perfect

The Night Watch

by artist Rembrandt, 1642

The Arnolfini Wedding

by artist Jan van Eyck, 1434

Children's Games

by artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Albrecht Durer, 1498

Chiaroscuro

an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something to emphasize it.