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The Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance. Essential Question: How did cultural diffusion spread the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to the rest of Europe?. As these ideas spread, this “ Northern Renaissance ” developed its own characteristics.

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The Northern Renaissance

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  1. The NorthernRenaissance Essential Question: How did cultural diffusion spread the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to the rest of Europe?

  2. As these ideas spread, this “Northern Renaissance” developed its own characteristics The Renaissance spread from Italy as scholars & merchants from other areas visited Italian city-states

  3. The Renaissance in France was most known for its unique architecture

  4. The Renaissance in England was most known for literature, especially the plays of William Shakespeare

  5. The Renaissance in the Netherlands was most known for realism in art Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

  6. Northern Renaissance Renaissance ideas soon spread beyond Italy to northern Europe • Trade • Travel – people going to and from Italy • Printed materials • Universities opened

  7. Activity: Trade in Europe • Using the background reading and the map of Renaissance trade routes, answer questions 1-7 • Make sure your answers are specific – you will be turning this in!

  8. Northern Renaissance Literature • Writers combined religion, fiction, and history • Created philosophical works, novels, dramas, and poems • Many believe William Shakespeare was the greatest writer of the Northern Renaissance • Plots not original  got inspiration from ancient and contemporary literature • Knowledge of natural science and humanism shows up in plays

  9. Northern Renaissance Art NOTjust Italian techniques moving north! Differences: • Italy: • change inspired by humanism • revival of ideas from ancient Greece and Rome • anyone with $ could be a patron • Europe • change driven by religious reform • princes & kings were patrons

  10. Artists • Use many Italian techniques • Northern art showed a more realistic view of life • Italian artists tried to capture beauty of Greek, Roman gods in paintings • Northern artists tried to depict people as they really were

  11. Northern Renaissance Art Characteristics • Attention to details • Focus on realism & naturalism • Less emphasis on the “classical ideal” • Interest in landscapes • More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life • Details of domestic interiors • Great skill in portraiture

  12. Flemish Realism

  13. Van Eyck The Crucifixion&The Last Judgment1420-1425

  14. Comparing Scenes of the Last Judgment

  15. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife(Wedding Portrait)Jan Van Eyck1434

  16. Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife(details)

  17. Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) The Deposition 1435

  18. van der Weyden’s Deposition (details)

  19. Massys’The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

  20. France

  21. Renaissance Art in France • 1494: France invaded Italy – brought ideas back • King Francis I • Encouraged humanistic learning • Invited da Vinci and others to France • Collected paintings by the great Italian masters

  22. The School of Fontainebleau • Gallery [right] by RossoFiorentino & Francesco Primaticcio • 1528-1537

  23. Germany

  24. Lucas Cranach the Elder Old Man with a Young Woman Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man

  25. Dürer The Last SupperWoodcut, 1510

  26. Comparing the Last Supper

  27. England

  28. Holbein’s, The Ambassadors, 1533 A Skull

  29. Multiple Perspectives

  30. Burghley House for William Cecil The largest & grandest house of the early Elizabethan era.

  31. The Low Countries

  32. HieronymusBoschThe Temptation of St. Anthony1506-1507

  33. Bruegel’s, The Beggars, 1568

  34. Bruegel’s, The Harvesters, 1565

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