Art Appreciation Test #3 Northern European Renaissance Essay

Question 0

How did the printing press affect the Northern European Renaissance?

Answer 0

• more books
• price of book goes down so more people have them
• literacy rates rise
  - more girls in this room rn that can read than in Northern Europe in 1300
• ideas will spread more quickly
• caused the church to lose power
  - can’t stop people from printing whatever they want - sensorship doesn’t work

Question 1

what 3 things affected the Northern European Renaissance?

Answer 1

1. Printing Press
2. Protestant Reformation
3. Rise of Capitalism

Question 2

how did the Protestant Reformation affect the Italian Renaissance?

Answer 2

1. there will be a split in the Catholic Church
2. Northern Europe will become primarily Protestant
3. war between Protestant countries & Catholic countries and between Protestant people & Catholic people in the same country
4. after wars are over, Protestant countries become more powerful (they kinda win)
   
   • balance of power shifts to north

Question 3

how does the rise of Capitalism affect the Northern European Renaissance?

Answer 3

• leads to a big middle class

- middle class people buy everything the Renaissance is about (art, books, education, ideas, etc.)