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The Northern Renaissance

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• Main Idea / Reading Focus
• The Renaissance Spreads North
• Philosophers and Writers
• Artists

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The Northern Renaissance
Main Idea Renaissance ideas soon spread beyond
Italy to northern Europe by means of trade,
travel, and printed material, influencing the art
and ideas of the north.

• Reading Focus
• How did the Renaissance spread to northern
  Europe?
• What contributions did writers and philosophers
  make to the northern Renaissance?
• How did the works of northern artists differ from
  those of the Italian Renaissance?

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The Renaissance Spreads North
Trade, the movement of artists and scholars, and
the development of printing helped spread
Renaissance ideas north from Italy.
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A Book Revolution

• Printing Press
• Mid-1400s, Johannes Gutenberg cast letters of
  alphabet on metal plates, locked metal plates on
  wooden press perfected movable type printing
• Result, one of most dramatic upheavals world has
  ever known

• Printed Word Available to More
• Before only way to reproduce writing was by hand
  long, painstaking process
• With movable type, text quickly printed
  producing books faster, cheaper
• Easier access to books prompted more people to
  learn to read

• Italics
• Gutenbergs first publication, 1,282-page Bible
• Printers soon appeared in other cities, made
  books quickly, inexpensively
• Explosion of printed material quickly spread
  Renaissance ideas

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Find the Main Idea How did Renaissance ideas
spread to northern Europe?
Answer(s) Ideas were exchanged through trade
artists and scholars traveled between Italy and
the north printing press allowed easier
bookmaking ideas spread with printed material.
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Philosophers and Writers
Northern humanists expressed their own ideas
Combined interests of theology, fiction and
history Created philosophical works, novels,
dramas, and poems
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Shakespeare and His Characters
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Summarize What are some characteristics of
Renaissance writers work?
Answer(s) expressed humanist ideas, scientific
knowledge, realistic experiences, and social
conditions
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Artists

• Like literary counterparts, northern European
  artists influenced by Italian Renaissance
• Adopted Italian techniques
• Works reflected more realistic view of humanity
• Italian artists tried to capture beauty of Greek,
  Roman gods in paintings
• Northern artists tried to depict people as they
  really were

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Dürer and Others

• 1400s, German artist Albrecht Dürer visited Italy
• On return, used Italian techniques of realism,
  perspective
• Oil paintings exhibit features unique to northern
  Renaissance
• Oils reproduced textures reflection of objects,
  scenes outside window

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Contrast How did northern Renaissance artwork
differ from that of Italian artists?
Answer(s) depicted everyday objects, people as
they actually were