Renaissance Spreads North

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Renaissance Spreads North
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As the Renaissance spreads north, Northern
artists adapt Italian Renaissance ideals in their
own way.
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Spread of Renaissance to Northern Europe
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Hundred Years Warends 1453, allowing people to
focus on subjects other then war.
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Printing Pressinvented around 1440 by Johann
Gutenberg
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It decreased the price of books so middle-class
people could buy them
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The idea for the printing press was culturally
diffused from China.
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Movable Type
Block Printing
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b. Allowed news ideas to spread very
quicklyleads to cultural diffusion
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Encouraged people to learn literacy
and the cost of books
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d. 1st book published Complete Bible
Gutenberg Bible
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Authors began writing in the vernacular, meaning
local or spoken languages, rather then Latin,
allowing the common man to read
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Northern Artistsfocused on the individual and
everyday life
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1. Pieter Bruegel and Jan Van Eyckpainted
pictures about common people and their everyday
life ex. weddings, dances, harvest,
festivals
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The Peasant WeddingPieter Bruegel
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The BeggarsPieter Bruegel
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The Peasant DancePieter Bruegel
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The HarvestersPieter Bruegel
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The Crucifixion by Jan van Eyck
The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck
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Detail The Last Judgment
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The Triumph of DeathPieter Bruegel
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Northern Writers1. Desiderius Erasmus The
Praise of Folly 1509poked fun at
society,including the church
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a. Strongly Christiansaid people should study
the Bible
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2. Thomas More Utopia1515story about
imaginary land inhabited by peace loving people
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3. William Shakespeare revealed the souls of
men and women through scenes of dramatic conflict
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IV. End of RenaissanceBy 1600s, new artistic
styles and ideas appear
1. Renaissance ideals continue to influence
European thought
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2. Belief in dignity of individual played a key
role in democratic ideals