Download Chapt. 13 - Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance
Agenda:
1. Northern Renaissance discussion
2. Historical thinking skills activity: Contextualization
using thematic approaches
HW: outline: “Politics and the State in the Renaissance”
(p. 441- 446)
Printing Press c. 1440
Gutenburg’s Bible was the first European book printed
using moveable type- the printing press
Printing encouraged scholarly research and increase
desire of public to gain knowledge (access to works of
the past) Lay piety
Ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation could not
have spread like they did without the printing press
Allowed Europe to compete with China who had
invented printing much earlier
Johannes Gutenburg
The Northern Renaissance
• Printing press carried the spirit of the
Renaissance to :
–France
–England
–Germany
–Netherlands
Northern Renaissance
• Great artists had significant impact
on scholars and students in Italy
• Royal Courts- paintings were show of
grandeur
–French hired Italian artists
Sir Thomas More
• English statesmen
• Wrote Utopia 1516
– Greek for “nowhere”
– Describes ideal peaceful society
– Criticism of society, politics, religion
– Later opposed the King's separation from
the Catholic Church and refused to accept
him as Supreme Head of the Church of
England; held at the Tower of London and
executed for treason
Desiderius Erasmus
• Catholic priest from Rotterdam
• Believed church was greedy, corrupt,
narrow-minded
• Translated New Testament to Latin
• Wrote The Praise of Folly (1509)– Satire that criticized scholars, clergy, etc. for
narrow-mindedness using examples from
Greek and Roman mythology
In Praise of Folly
“ Now, indeed, the Stoics think themselves very close
to the gods; but give me a person who is Stoic three or
four or even six hundred times over and see if he,
though not putting aside his beard, an insignia of
wisdom (but also common to the goat), will not surely
put off his gravity, smooth his frowning brow, abandon
his rockbound principles, and for a few minutes be silly
and act the fool”
Northern Renaissance Art
• Center- Flanders, Netherlands (Dutch trade
brings in money, patrons)
• Religious themes, symbols
• Life in towns and countryside
• Use of light and shadow
• Interest in classical themes
• Oil-painting
Northern Renaissance Artists
• Jan Van Eyck (Dutch, 1390 – 1441)
• Albrecht Durer (German, 1471 - 1528)
– Court painter to Holy Roman Emperors
– Woodcuts (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
• Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497-1543)
– Portrait painter, Painted for Henry VIII (England)
• Pieter Brueghel (Flemish, 1525-1569)
– Realistic scenes with detail
– Every day farm workers, townspeople
• Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)- light and shadow
Possible Self
Portrait (Man in
Red Turban)
Jan van Eyck
Arnolfini Portrait,
Jan Van Eyck
http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/a
rth/Images/ARTH_214images/van_eyck/arn
olfini/painting.jpg
Ghent Altarpiece (Adoration
of the Mystic Lamb),
Jan van Eyck
Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse,
Albrecht Durer
Portrait of Sir Thomas
More
By Hans Holbein
Portrait of
Erasmus
By Hans Holbein
Henry VIII
By Holbein
Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel
Peasant Wedding, Pieter Brueghel
Self Portrait,
by Rembrandt
Abraham and
Isaac
By Rembrandt
Madonna and Child,
Michelangelo
Bruges, Belgium
Northern Renaissance Architecture
City Center,
Ghent, Belgium
(late 15th, early 16th
century)
Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 1665
Historical Thinking Skills –
Contextualization using Thematic
Approaches
Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical
events and processes to specific circumstances of time and
place as well as broader regional, national, or global processes.
Use the themes of AP European history to practice
contextualization.
Northern Renaissance – The Supreme
Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xql4qDfOJI