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Northern Renaissance Late 1400’s

Northern Renaissance Late 1400’s. Homework: 46-51 Extra Credit: Girl with a Pearl Earring. Beginnings. By 1450 Northern Europe began to recover from plague Unlike Italy’s city states the Northern areas were unified under monarchs. Christian rather then secular ideas were maintained.

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Northern Renaissance Late 1400’s

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  1. Northern Renaissance Late 1400’s • Homework: 46-51 • Extra Credit: Girl with a Pearl Earring

  2. Beginnings • By 1450 Northern Europe began to recover from plague • Unlike Italy’s city states the Northern areas were unified under monarchs. • Christian rather then secular ideas were maintained.

  3. Spread of Ideas in Germany • Both an invasion of Northern Italy and artist traveling to Germany brought Renaissance Ideas • Durer and Holbein were the most famous with realistic picture quality painting

  4. Flemish Painters • As in Italy was precipitated by rise in middle class • Van Eyck became famous for his new technique of oil painting (helped in subtlety of color) • Brugel was influenced by van Eyck and used paintings to protest Spanish rule, and capture every day life.

  5. Reform: Christian Humanist • Geoffrey Chaucer: Led changes in England as a vernacular writer (Canterbury Tales) • Desiderius Erasmus (Holland): Believed that to improve society everyone should study the bible. (Praise of Folly) • Thomas More (England): wrote about a perfect society (Utopia)

  6. Shakespeare • Shakespeare was also known for his humanistic play writing. He examined peoples greatest assets and flaws • He often used the classics as background

  7. What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and in moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The Paragon of animals. -Hamlet

  8. Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) • The Renaissance in England is also known as the Elizabethan age • Queen Elizabeth never married to prevent from losing power • She was considered to be the “queen mother” • She favored the arts including writing poetry herself

  9. Printing Press • Block printing was first developed in china. • The Printing press was created by a German Johann Gutenberg • The first published book being the Gutenberg bible

  10. Importance of the Renaissance • New art styles • Humanistic Ideal • Individuality • The effects of books

  11. Summary Questions • What does Utopia mean in Greek? • What was the first European book that was printed? • What book did Thomas Mores write? • Where was the printing press created? Who created it?

  12. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan van Eyck (1370-1440)

  13. The Adoration of the Lamb by Hubert and Jan van Eyck 1432

  14. Extra Credit Film: • Shakespeare in Love(many historical inaccuracies) (evidence and Interpretations) • Merchant of Venice- Shakespeare play keep in mind the anti-semitism of the time

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