What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• Humanist thought spread beyond Italy carried by
• - students
• - printing
• Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany first
  European to use moveable type to print books c.
  1450

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• The most influential humanist of northern Europe
  was Desiderius ERASMUS, a Dutch scholar.
  (1466-1536)
• He learned about the ideas of Italian humanists,
  such as Francesco PETRARCH from printed books

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• Erasmus and the northern humanists were
  interested in the early Christian period as well
  in Roman Greek culture
• Erasmus believed that in its early years
  Christianity had existed in harmony with
  classical civilization
• He applied the critical method developed by the
  Italian humanists to his study of the Bible and
  argued for a return to the simple message of
  Jesus

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• Erasmus criticised medieval scholars for making
  Christianity less spiritual and more ceremonial
  and complicated
• His most famous book, The Praise of Folly,
  ridiculed ignorance, superstition and vice. As
  well criticising fasting, pilgrimages, and some
  biblical interpretations.

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• Thomas MORE, the English humanist and great
  friend of Erasmus agreed.
• He published UTOPIA in 1516, in which he
  criticized the society of his day by describing
  an imaginary ideal society. Harmony and equality.

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What was different about the Northern Renaissance?

• Artists
• Building on the new techniques of Italian artists
  a group of painters in Flanders developed their
  own distinctive style FLEMISH SCHOOL
• Perfecting the technique of painting in oil on
  canvas
• One of the most famous Flemish artists Pieter
  Brueghel the Elder (painting in mid 1500s)
  depicted lively country scenes but also used his
  painting as a means to criticize intolerance and
  cruelty

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The Triumph of Death by Pieter Brueghal the Elder
c.1562
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• Hans Holbein
• 1497 - 1543

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What was different about the Northern
Renaissance?