The Northern Renaissance

Who spread the Renaissance idea out of Italy?

• Merchants

• Dogs

• Nobles

• Jan Van Eyck

List the differences between the Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance

• In Italy, the themes were more secular

• The humanists there were more interested in religious ideas

• Merchants and nobles got along in the Northern Renaissance

• There were no Renaissance men in the Northern Renaissance

Who were the German painters?

• Jan Van Eyck

• Hans Holbein

• Albrecht Durer

• Pieter Bruegel

True or False:

Durer made woodcuts/engravings, religious subjects, painted realistic landscapes, showed himself as a Renaissance man.

• True

• False

Han Holbein painted what?

• Religious Subjects

• Proverbs

• He wasn't a painter

• Royal families and portraits that are almost photographic.

Who were the Flemish painters?

• Jan Van Eyck

• Hans Holbein

• Pieter Bruegel

• Albrecht Durer

True or False:

Jan Van Eyck did NOT use oil paint but displayed unusually realistic details and reveal personality of their subjects.

• False

• True

Pieter Bruegel painted what?

• Humanism

• Everyday peasant life

• Paintings that illustrated proverbs or taught a moral

• Merchants/Nobles

True or False:

A Christian Humanist is a person who studies the Bible and doesn't believe in ceremonies or rules.

• False

• True

What controversy surrounds the works of William Shakespeare?

• There is no controversy

• He's dumb

• He only wrote parts of it

• He didn't write any of them but put his name on them