Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Open Ended

What are some things you remember from the Italian Renaissance?

Italian Renaissance

• Started in Italy as a rebirth of classical Greek and Roman ideas.

• Focused on humanity's innate abilities, i.e. Humanism

• Perspective, Chiaroscuro, Fresco

Northern Renaissance

• Ideas of the Italian Renaissance that spread into other parts of Europe

• Specifically: England, Spain, France, and parts of Germany and the Netherlands.

Northern Renaissance artists

• Bruegel the Elder

• Holbein

• Jan van Eyck

Northern Renaissance writers

• Erasmus

• William Shakespeare

• Sir Thomas More

• Sir Francis Bacon

Innovations of the Northern Renaissance

• Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press.

Open Ended

Why do you think the printing press was important?

Multiple Choice

The rebirth of classical studies contributed to the development of all forms of art during the Renaissance.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

printer who invented a printing press with movable type

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

Multiple Choice

the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

Multiple Choice

English humanist who described an ideal society in Utopia

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

Multiple Choice

Dutch religious scholar who called for the translation of the Bible into the vernacular

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus