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Chapter 1 Section 2 Reading Focus

• Which artists brought the Renaissance to northern Europe?

• What themes did humanist thinkers and other writers explore?

• What impact did the printing revolution have on Europe?

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Chapter 1 Section 2 Vocabulary

• Engraving- art form in which an artist etches a design on metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make prints.

• Vernacular- everyday language of ordinary people.

• Utopian- the ideal society

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Background

1050–1350• Population growth• Economic

development• City-states

1200–late 1500s• Artistic

achievementsGiovanni Bellini, Sacra Conversazione

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Intellectual Developments

• Humanism• Revival of antiquity• Importance of the

individual• Celebration of

humanity• Secular/worldly focusTitian,

Assumption of the Virgin

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Humanism and Individuality

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Ghiberti’s Doors

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Ghiberti’s Doors

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Donatello’s David

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Michelangelo’s David

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Renaissance Architecture

• Classical influences• Mathematical harmony• The circle

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Brunelleschi’s Dome

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St. Peter’s Basilica

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Inside St. Peter’s

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Inside St. Peter’s

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Inside St. Peter’s

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The Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht Dürer

• 1471–1528• Introduced

Italian Renaissance style of art to Germany

Dürer, self-portrait

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Hans Holbein the Younger• 1497–1543• German

painter• Became

court painter to King Henry VIII of England

Holbein, self-portrait A Holbein portrait of King Henry VIII

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Jan van Eyck• 1390–1441• Painted in oils• Detail, realism

Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban (possibly a self-

portrait)

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The Northern Renaissance

• More focused on Christianity than the Italian Renaissance

• Began late 15th

century/early 16th century

Altarpiece for the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Ghent, created by Northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck

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The Printing Press

• Invented by Johann Gutenberg in the mid-1400s

• Made printed works cheaper and more readily available

• Increased literacy in Europe

• Helped spread new ideas

A replica of Gutenberg’s printing press

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Christian Humanism• Union of

classical influences and Christianity

• Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)

• Influence on northern Renaissance artChristian humanist

scholar Desiderius Erasmus

A woodcut of Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer, a German

Renaissance artist

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Renaissance Politics and Economics: Legacy