Northern Renaissance

Question 1

what increased

Answer 1

population growing again (after 100 years war), patronage of artists

Question 2

rban merchants

Answer 2

became wealthy enough to sponsor artists, first in flanders, then to other parts of north europe

Question 3

-england and france:

Answer 3

sponsored arts by purchasing paintings and supporting artists and writers

Question 4

-francis I and leonard da vinci

Answer 4

invited vinic to retire in france, hired italian artist and architects to rebuild and decorate castle at fontainebleau

Question 5

-fontainebleau:

Answer 5

showcase for Renaissance art

Question 6

-renaissance ideas:

Answer 6

spread out of italy, mingled with northern traditions

Question 7

mingling of northern traditions

Answer 7

renaissance developed its own character (realism, northern humanists inspired by human dignity to develop plans for social reform based on Judeo-Christian values)

Question 8

-cause of spread

Answer 8

french king claimed throne of naples in southern italy and launched an invasion through northern italy

Question 9

-spread

Answer 9

italian artists and writers left for a safer life in northern europe, brought with them styles and techniques of italian renaissance, northern european artist carried renaissance ideas back to homelands

Question 10

-albrecht durer:

Answer 10

travel to italy to study, produced woodcuts and engravings, portray religious subjects, classical myths, realistic landscapes, popularity of durer’s work helped to spread renaissance styles

Question 11

-hans holbein the younger:

Answer 11

influence from durer’s emphasis on realism, painting portraits in photographic in detail, painted portraits of Henry VII and members of english royal family
-flanders: artistic center (support of wealthy merchants families there)

Question 12

-flanders:

Answer 12

: artistic center (support of wealthy merchants families there)

Question 13

-jan van Eyck: f

Answer 13

first flemish renaissance painter, oil based paints, create variety of subtle colors, display unusually realistic details and reveal personality of their subjects

Question 14

-pieter bruegel the elder

Answer 14

realistic details, individual people, large numbers of people, everyday peasant life, give sense of life and feelings

Question 15

-italian humanists:

Answer 15

interested in reviving classical languages and classical texts, reached north, used humanist ideas to examine traditional teachings of church

Question 16

-christian humanism:

Answer 16

focus= reform of society, education (boys and girls(, found schools attended by boys and girls)

Question 17

-desiderius erasmus

Answer 17

praise of folly, poked fun, christianity of heart, not one of ceremonies or rules, people should study bible

Question 18

thomas more:

Answer 18

utopia, imaginary land where greed, corruption, and war have been weeded out, became popular and translated

Question 19

-christine de pizan

Answer 19

highly educated, living as writer, question different treatment of boys and girls

Question 20

-elizabethan agne:

Answer 20

renaissance spread to england in mid-1500s,

Question 21

-queen elizabeth I:

Answer 21

educated, different languages, poetry and music, support development of english art and literature

Question 22

-william shakespeare

Answer 22

greatest playwright of all time, born in 1564, small town, 1592= wrote poems and plays,