Northern Renaissance

• The Renaissance was the result of both war and plague
• The Northern Renaissance spread from northern Italy to all of Europe
• The Renaissance was the rebirth of art and learning

German Painter: Durer

• Albrecht Durer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist during the Renaissance.
• Durer kept in contact with Italian artists during his time, including Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.

German Painter: Holbein

• Hans Holbein is known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.
• He is called "the Younger" to tell him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, a painter of the Late Gothic school.

Flemish Painter: Van Eyck

• Jan Van Eyck is known for founding the Early Netherlandish painting school and for being apart of the Northern Renaissance.
• Van Eyck was highly influential as later Netherlandish painters adopted some of his techniques.

Flemish Painter: Bruegel

• Bruegel was the most interested in realistic detail and portraying large numbers of people
• Bruegel's paintings were mainly scenes from everyday peasant life such as weddings, dances and harvests

Christian Humanist: Erasmus

• Erasmus is responsible for helping set the foundation for the study of the past.
• He created educational writings that replaced classics, but had his humanist emphasis.
• "Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself."

Christian Humanist: More

• More was a Christian Humanist who also wrote books.
• More's most famous book is Utopia, which depicts a world where everything is right.
• "I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first."

Christine de Pizan

• Was really the first woman to become a successful writer.
• Pizan questioned the difference of what men and women can do.
• Pizan produced many French books, including short stories, biographies, novels, and manuals on military techniques.