The Northern Renaissance

• The center of the European Renaissance movement was in Italy
• The Northern renaissance refers to Renaissance art, architecture, and philosophy that took place outside of Italy
• The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps

German Painter Durer

• He was a painter and a printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist
• His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.

German painter Holbein

• Holbein was a member of a family of important artists
• Holbein entered the painters’ corporation in 1519, married a tanner’s widow, and became a burgher of Basel in 1520

German Painter Van Eyck

• He was born in about 1395
• In 1432 Van Eyck painted "Adoration of the lamb", the altarpiece for the church of St. Bavon, Ghent

Flemish Painter Bruegel

• He was well known for his paintings of peasants and landscapes
• He was born with the last name of Breughel after the town of his birth

Christian Humanist Erasmus

• He was born in the Netherlands
• He was a dutch humanist and theologian
• "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes"

Christian Humanist Thomas More

• Was an english lawyer and scholar whose writing became famous throughout Europe
• In 1516 he wrote the book Utopia
• "If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable"

Christine de Pizan

• Christine de Pizan was one of the first European writers to question different treatment of boys and girls
• Born in Venice, Italy in 1364
• De Pisan joined her father in France at a young age, and he saw to her education