Section+17-2+The+Northern+Renaissance


 * Section 17-2: The Northern Renaissance **

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**William Shakespeare-** The most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age.

**Johann Gutenberg**- he developed a printing press that incorporated a number of technologies in a new way.

- Humanists writers expanded ideas about individuality. The ideas impressed scholars, students and merchants who visited Italy.
 * Setting the Stage: **

- Population growing by 1490. End of Hundred Year war cities grew fast. Merchants got money to sponsor artists. Happened first in Flanders. - Italy city-staters england/france unified under strong monarchs. Rulers often bought paintings and sponsored the arts. - Renaissance blended with northern traditions. by moving north.
 * The Northern Renaissance Begins: **

**Artistic Ideas Spread**: - French king got Naples launched invasion on northern Italy. Many Italian artist/writers went to northern Europe (safer) Carried ideas back to homelands.

**German Painters**: - German artist Albrecht Dürer studied in Italy, returned to Italy made woodcuts and engravings. - Dürer's realism influenced german artist Hans Holbein the Younger. Painter that almost looked like a photograph.

- wealth families support helped make these painting the center of Northern Europe. Jan can Eyck first great Flemish painter. Oil paints color on color helped with clothing and jewels. - Very realistic showed personality in the poser. - peak 1550 with the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Good at large #s of people, good at everyday life, weddings, dances, and harvests. Rich colors vivd details and balanced space gave a life like feeling.
 * Flemish Painters: **

- Humanists interested in reviving classical languages and texts. People used them to examine the teachings of the Church. ChristiaN HUMANISM FORMED. The reform of society (crishmnsm). humanists promoted the education of women and founded schools for boys and girls.
 * Northern Writers Try to Reform Society:**

- best know Christian humanists was Desiderius Erasmus of Holland and Thomas More of England, close friends with each other. - Erasmus wrote most famous piece of his //The Praise of Folly// made fun of greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars and pompous priests. He thought to improve society everyone had to study the bible. - Thomas More wrote //Utopia// about a imaginary place where greed corruption and were didn't exist. popular translated into many languages.
 * Christian Humanists:**

- many Europeans no read or write. non rich families sent sons to school. Christine de Pizan very smart one of few female writers. One of the first europeans to question the treatment of boys and girls. formal education for both sexes not achieved for many centuries.
 * Women's Reforms**:

- Renaissance spread to england mid 1500s. known as the Elizabethan Age. Named after queen Elizabeth 1 she was well educated wrote poetry and music did much support the development of english art and literature.
 * The Elizabethan Age**:

- Most famous writer of the Elizabethan Age. best playwright of all time? born in Stratford-upon-Avon. wrote poems plays. - used classics to help him with plot.
 * William Shakespeare**:

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 * Printing Spreads Renaissance Ideas**:

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 * Gutenberg Improves the Printing Process**:

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 * The Legacy of the Renaissance**:

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 * Changes in the Arts**:

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 * Changes in Society**: