Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Unit 3 - covers 3.3.1 - 3.3.4

Assignments:

3.1.4 - 3/12
3.2.2 - 3/15
3.3.4 - 3/21
3.4.2 - 3/26
4.1.4 - 4/2
4.2.3 - 4/04

​No Class Monday, April 1
No fooling!

​Northern Renaissance

Religious subject matter was as common as it was in Italy, but it was the Northern Renaissance artists who found more ways to depict religious scenes. They also found new and more complex ways to infuse artwork with symbolism.

Much like the Renaissance in Italy, the Northern Renaissance was a time of monumental creative activity.

The Northern Renaissance includes modern-day Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

Symbolism -

The practice of using an object to represent something else, usually something invisible, like an ideal or emotion.

The following symbols can be found in the Portinari Altarpiece.

• The scattered violets stand for humility.

• The orange lilies stand for the Passion of the Christ.

• The columbine signifies the Holy Spirit.

• The three red carnations remind viewers about the three nails of Christ's crucifixion.

• The wheat behind the two vases refers to Christ's birth, which took place in Bethlehem, which means "the house of bread" in Hebrew.

In Northern Renaissance art, even the tiniest detail could have a symbolic function, almost always religious in nature

Match

Look at this detail from the central panel of the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes. Match each of these elements with what it is supposed to symbolize.

• Scattered violets

• Orange lilies

• Three red carnations

Humility

The Passion of the Christ

The nails of Christ's crucifixion

• Humility

• The Passion of the Christ

• The nails of Christ's crucifixion

Multiple Select

When we refer to the NORTHERN Renaissance, what countries are included? Check ALL that apply.

• England

• China

• Germany

• France

• Italy

This Dutch market would have been a familiar sight to 16th-century viewers, much as a supermarket is familiar to us. But what goes on behind the meat stall is the real subject of the painting. Looking through spaces left between hanging cuts of meat, one can see the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, a Biblical event in which Joseph and Mary flee to Egypt to save their unborn child from being killed by King Herod. In the right corner is a depiction of the prodigal son returning to his family. These scenes were inspired by the gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament.

​Meat Stall with the Holdy Family Giving Alms (1551)

Multiple Choice

What type of art form did the Northern Renaissance artists introduce to Europe?

• Animated scenes

• Still life

• Digital art

• Watercolor painting

Multiple Choice

What type of art didn't the Northern Renaissance artists use that their Italian counterparts did?

• Watercolors

• Sculpture

• Modern art

• Cave paintings

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

a technique in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate using acid; the plate is then used to make prints

• printing press

• vernacular

• prosperous

• engraving

Multiple Choice

Look at the central panel of the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes. This artwork uses all of the following except _____

• oil paint

• a wood canvas

• the triptych format

• the trompe l'oeil illusion

Multiple Choice

Rubens, van Eyck, and Bruegel were all

• Italian humanists.

• northern Renaissance painters.

• northern Renaissance writers.

• best known for their engravings.

Assignments:

3.1.4 - 3/12
3.2.2 - 3/15
3.3.4 - 3/21
3.4.2 - 3/26
4.1.4 - 4/2
4.2.3 - 4/04

​No Class Monday, April 1
No fooling!