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Global Honors: Spiconardi. The Northern Renaissance. Spread of The Renaissance. The Renaissance began to spread from Italy northward and throughout the rest of Western Europe Reasons for the spread Art patronage of Italian artists by monarchs
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Global Honors: Spiconardi The Northern Renaissance
Spread of The Renaissance • The Renaissance began to spread from Italy northward and throughout the rest of Western Europe • Reasons for the spread • Art patronage of Italian artists by monarchs • Commercial cities like Bruges and Antwerp were exposed to Renaissance ideas via trade
Spread of The Renaissance • Reasons for the spread (con’t.) • Gutenberg’s Printing Press • Allowed for faster transmission of ideas & scientific research • Increases literacy The Gutenberg Bible
The Northern Renaissance • Northern Renaissance – Reference to the Renaissance that took place outside of Italy; in particular Germany & the Netherlands. • Characteristics of Art • God as judge • Objects in nature • Traditional everyday life of commoners • Attention to detail
The Northern Renaissance • Erasmus • Northern Humanist & theologian • Called for reforms within the Catholic Church through scholarship and discourse • The Education of a Christian Prince • Written 16 years before Machiavelli’s the prince as advice to Charles V (new Holy Roman Emperor) • He offers • It is better to be loved than feared • Rulers needed an education in order to govern justly
Artists of the Northern Renaissance • Jan van Eyck (c. 1395 – 1441) • Father of oil painting • Known for his attention to detail • Check this out… Arnolfini Portrait
Artists of the Northern Renaissance • Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) • One of the first landscape artists • Painter and woodcut engraver • Considered greatest of Northern Renaissance artists
Artists of the Northern Renaissance • Rembrandt (1606 -1669) • Known for his portraits and Bible scene paintings • Oddly, his most famous painting is neither • Considered the greatest Dutch painter
Rembrandt’s Works The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp