Download Causes of the Northern Renaissance

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• Describe art from the Middle Ages
• Describe art from the Italian Renaissance.
Northern Renaissance
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Learning Targets
1. What factors led to the spread of the
Renaissance to Northern Europe?
2. Compare and contrast Italian Renaissance
Art to Northern Renaissance Art
Causes of the Northern
Renaissance
• How did each of the following help the
Renaissance spread from Italy to Northern
Europe (Flanders)
1. Royal Courts
2. German Masters
3. Wealthy Merchant Families in Flanders
Painting/Woodcutting/
Engraving/Sketching
• Focused on Christian life
• Flemish
• German
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Northern Renaissance
• What is the difference between the Italian
Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance?
• Why is there a difference?
Quentin Matsys
• Flemish
• Oil
• Perspective
• Detail
• Scenes from everyday life
Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife,
1514
Flanders-Van Eyck’s
• In Ghent
• Oil
• Perspective
• Detail
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Jan van Eyck (1395 – 1441)
• More courtly and
aristocratic work.
– Court painter to the
Duke of Burgundy,
Philip the Good.
• The Virgin and
Chancellor Rolin,
1435.
Van Eyck -Adoration of the Lamb,
Ghent Altarpiece, 1432
Van Eyck:
 The Crucifixion
&
The Last Judgment 
1420-1425
Giovanni Arnolfini
and His Wife
(Wedding Portrait)
Jan Van Eyck
1434
Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini &
His Wife
(details)
Germany
• Durer
• Holbein
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Durer
• From Nuremberg
• Engraver
• Woodcutter
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• Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
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• Erasmus
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• SelfPortrait
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• Christ and His Disciples
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Holbein
• Sketcher
• Woodcutter
• Portrait painter
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• Henry VIII
• Anne of Cleves
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• Thomas More
• Lady with a
Squirrel and
a Starling
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• Erasmus
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Holbein’s, The Ambassadors, 1533
A Skull
Multiple Perspectives
• The Ambassadors
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Cranach
• Influenced by Durer
• Court painter for
Frederick the Wise of
Saxony
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• Martin Luther and his Wife
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• Cupid
Complaining
to Venus
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• Adam
and
Eve
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• Durer’s
Adam
• Cranach’s
Adam
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