The document summarizes key aspects of the Northern Renaissance, including: The printing press spread new ideas and learning through universities, higher literacy, and interest in education, while some saw books as less beautiful and scribes lost work. Northern writers like Erasmus and More were critical of the Church and governments. Northern artists like the Van Eycks captured detail and emotion in paintings, while Durer, Brueghel and Holbein created influential works in engraving, woodcuts and portraiture. Northern humanism reflected a more realistic view of society than Italian art.

1. THE NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE

2. Effects of the Printing Press
Learning - new universities,
higher literacy rates, and more
interest in education
Culture - new ideas and
better communication
Spread of Ideas - learn about
more distant places and
cultures

3. Obstacles of the Printing Press
books won’t last as long as
copied manuscripts
hand copied books are more
beautiful then printed
scribes were out of work

4. Northern Writers Their Works
Critical of the Church’s policies
Desiderius Erasmus
The Praise of Folly
Dutch Writer and Philosopher

5. Northern Writers Their Works
condemned governments;
argued against private
Thomas More
property
Utopia

6. Northern Writers Their Works
transformed historical events
into stories
William Shakespeare
portrayed personality and
human conditions

7. Characteristics in Northern
Italian Humanist
Common Humanists
interested in human interested in early
interest in early
achievement christian period
Greek and Roman
culture
examples examples
Petrarch Erasmus
used critical method
Machiavelli More
of study
Castiglione Shakespeare

8. Northern Artists Their Works
Part of the “Flemish School”
Detail facial expressions
Jan and Hubert van Eyck
Oil paintings
Masterpiece- Ghent altarpiece
Jan

11. Northern Artists Their works
painted village scenes
critical of intolerance and
Pieter Brueghal the Elder
cruelty

13. Northern Artists Their Works
known for his copper
engravings and woodcuts
Albrecht Durer first to use watercolors
(The Knight, Death, and the
Devil)

15. Northern Artists Their works
known for his portraits of
Hans Holbein the Younger
famous people

16. Northern both Italian
more realistic view used perspective art shows more
of society godlike qualities
ex. bald, frail, reflect Christian ex. athleticism,
imperfect subjects humanism muscles, admiration
of human form