The Renaissance in Northern Europe Q1 - Review

After Black Death; Renissance is a economic repair

Flanders

region that included parts of present-day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands; It was an important industrial and financial center of northern Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissan

Jan van Eyck

portray townspeople and religous themes; known for insane details; created oil paints to long last paints

Pieter Bruegel

vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life; “Peasant Bruegel”

The Arnolfini Portrait

Great detailed art of two merchants

Albrecht Durer

engraving: making prints from metal plates; studied from Itallian masters, brought Northern europe art; “German Leonardo”; created The Apocalypse(print) and Adam and Eve(painting)

education, classical learning, religious themes

what does northern European humanist scholars stress?

Desiderius Erasmus

Dutch priest, writer, and scholar who promoted humanism; wrote a new Greek edition of the Christian Bible; translated the Bible to vernacular; helped reform Church corruption; He believed an individual's chief duties were to be open-minded and to show goodwill toward others.

In Praise of Folly

use humor to explore the ignorant, immoral behavior of people.

Sir Thomas More

English humanist; wrote Utopia

Utopia

an ideal society in which men and women live in peace and harmony; thats where “utopian” came to mean idealistic

Francois Rabelais

French humanist; Gargantua and Pantagruel (on 2 giants)

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Story on 2 gentle giants; offer opinions on society and more by Rabelais

William Shakespeare

invented word and phrases; humanist approach to characters; universal themes; characters spoke in common language

Johannes Gutenberg

German; invented printing press; first print a Christian Bible

cheap, education, idea

impact of printing press? in words (no and)