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The Northern Renaissance
Standard: SSWH9 The student will analyze
change and continuity in the Renaissance and
Reformation.
How was the Northern Renaissance similar to
and different from the Italian Renaissance?
EQ: What was the legacy of the Renaissance?
Vocabulary: fresco, Christian Humanists,
tragedy, comedy, literacy (literacy rate)
I. The Northern Renaissance
A. The most important northern
school of art in the 16th century
was found in Flanders.
B. Art was painted as it was seen.
C. Artists tried to achieve a standard
of ideal beauty by a careful
examination of the human form.
D. Jan van Eyck
1. Was among the first to use oil
paint.
2. Introduced the use of a wide variety
of colors.
3. Simply observed reality and
portrayed the details as best he
could.
II. Northern Writers Try to Reform Society
A. Christian Humanists:
1. Desiderius Erasmus (Holland) is best known
for his book In Praise of Folly.
2. Thomas More (England) wrote the book
Utopia.
III. The Elizabethan Age
A. The Renaissance spread to England in
the mid-1500s.
B. Named for Elizabeth I who was a
patron of the arts.
C. The most famous writer of the age
was William Shakespeare.
1.
2.
Considered greatest playwright of all time.
The Globe Theatre was the home to many of
Shakespeare’s plays.
IV. Legacy of the Renaissance
Changes in the Arts
• Art drew on techniques and styles of classical
Greece and Rome.
• Individuals and nature portrayed more naturally.
• Both secular and religious works were created.
• Use of the vernacular.
• Praise of individual achievement.
Changes in society
• Printing made more information available.
• Increases desire for learning and a rise in the
literacy rate throughout Europe.
• Christian humanists changed views about how
life should be lived
• People began to question political structures
and religious practices.
GET OUT A
SHEET OF PAPER
and number 1-5.
1. A person who produces work “in the
vernacular” is one who…
A. Relies on realism
B. Used only natural light
C. Uses a verse form of writing
D. Writes in a local, rather than a classical,
language
2. What was the Renaissance a rebirth of ?
A. Christian devotion
B. Art and learning
C. Chivalry and tournaments
D. Terror due to Viking invasion
3. In what way did Leonardo da Vinci represent
the Renaissance Man?
A. He was a painter, sculptor, inventor, and
scientist
B. He painted the Mona Lisa while holding
scientific discussions
C. He lived in Italy during the 1500s
D. He used perspective in all of his drawings
and paintings
4. The European printing press was
invented by:
A. Jan van Eyck
B. Johann Gutenberg
C. Peter Bruegel the Elder
D. Hans Holbein the Younger
5. Renaissance painters in the center of the
Northern Renaissance, Flanders, produced
artwork that was
A. abstract
B. impressionistic
C. distorted
D. Painted as it was seen
6. What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg
printed
A. Utopia
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. The Bible
D. The Prince
17. Which of the following is NOT one of the
ways Renaissance ideas spread to Northern
Europe?
A. scholars
B. conquest
C. students
D. merchants
18. Who was William Shakespeare?
A. king of England during the 1500
B. inventor of the European printing press
C. a banker and patron of the arts from
Florence
D. a Dutch merchant
19. Who were the greatest patrons of all
time?
A. Cosimo and Lorenzo Medici
B. The Julians
C. Leonardo da Vinci
D. D. The Potsis
20. A man who excelled in many fields was
praised as a “Universal Man.” Now we refer to
these men as …
A. Renaissance men
B. Scholastics
C. Monastic Men
D. Perfectionists