1. THE RENAISSANCE MOVES NORTH AND THE REFORMATION THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON.

2. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE: LOGIC TRADE IS THE DRIVING FORCE ARTISTS PARALLEL AND PRECEDE VAN EYCK DURER LITERATURE FOCUSES ON RELIGION AND SOCIETY ERASMUS MORE SHAKESPEARE

3. JOHANNES VAN EYCK 1395-1441 (EST) KNOWN FOR REALISM IN HIS WORKS WORKED FOR DUKE PHILIP THE GOOD OF BURGUNDY (WELL- PAID). PAINTINGS FOR PRIVATE CLIENTS IN ADDITION TO HIS WORK AT THE COURT. The Ghent Altarpiece- Singing Angels 1427-29 Considered himself to be “Second best in the art” behind his brother, Hubert.

4. PORTRAIT OF GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS WIFE 1434

5. SLIDESHOW OF VAN EYCK’S WORK

6. THE MIRROR: SO SPIFFY

7. ALBRECHT DURER 1471 – 1528 German from Nuremberg. painter printmaker Theorist Second of 18 children Influenced by artists from Venice Raphael held himself honored in exchanging Drawings with Durer.

8. DURER’S WOODCUTS Melancholy I The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Hands I

9. HE NEVER SAW ONE!!!

10. DURER’S PAINTINGS Self-portrait,aged 26Barbara Durer: Mother Venetian woman Sir Frederick the wise Of Saxony YoungHare

11. SLIDESHOW OF DURER’S WORK

12. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE WRITERS ERASMUS MORE SHAKESPEARE

13. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 1466 - 1536 ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS AND BASEL, SWITZERLAND 1484 HIS PARENTS DIED OF THE PLAGUE BECAME A PRIEST IN 1492 TRAVELS PARIS ENGLAND (FRIENDS WITH THOMAS MORE) ITALY WHERE HE WROTE HIS FIRST CONTROVERSIAL WORK. (JULIUS EXCLUSUS )

14. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY IN ENGLAND DISAPPOINTED WITH THE CHURCH'S WARS AND ITS CLERGY'S WEAKNESSES BECAME PRETTY POPULAR IN ENGLAND FREED FROM HIS VOWS AS A PRIEST

15. INFLUENCE ADVISED CHARLES V (LATER THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR WHO TRIED MARTIN LUTHER AT THE DIET OF WORMS). PREPARED A GUIDE FOR EDUCATING PRINCES TO RULE JUSTLY SPOKE AGAINST WAR AS AN INSTRUMENT OF OPPRESSION WARNED RULERS TO FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE CHRISTIAN HARMONY COLLABORATED WITH MARTIN LUTHER EARLY ON HIS DEATH IN 1536, THE CHURCH REJECTED SOME OF HIS WORK FOR ITS CRITICAL ATTITUDE

16. SIR THOMAS MORE Son of a Judge Became a lawyer Dabbled with poetry Became close friends with Erasmus Didn’t want to be a priest, but didn’t not want to be a priest either. Became a member of Parliament

17. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Born in Stratford-upon-Avon 1564 Father was a glove maker and wool merchant Mother was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner $$$ Married Ann Hathaway, eight years older than him. Emerged as an actor, but referred to as an, "upstart Crow“ in a 1592 pamphlet. One of the managing partners of the Lord Chamberlain's Company (renamed the King's Company) Acquired interests in two theatres in the London - Globe - Blackfriars

18. THE GLOBE AND THE BLACKFRIARS

19. SHAKESPEARE THE PLAYWRIGHT FIRST PLAYS BEGAN TO APPEAR IN 1594 TWO A YEAR UNTIL AROUND 1611. EARLIER PLAYS WERE MAINLY HISTORIES AND COMEDIES 'HENRY VI' 'TITUS ANDRONICUS' 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM' 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE' 'RICHARD II'. 'ROMEO AND JULIET‘ 1598 THE AUTHOR FRANCIS MERES DESCRIBED SHAKESPEARE AS ENGLAND’€™S GREATEST WRITER IN COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. IN 1602 SHAKESPEARE'S CONTINUING SUCCESS ENABLED HIM TO MOVE TO UPMARKET SILVER STREET, WHERE HE WROTE SOME OF HIS GREATEST TRAGEDIES SUCH AS 'HAMLET', 'OTHELLO', 'KING LEAR' AND 'MACBETH'. SHAKESPEARE DIED ON 23 APRIL 1616 AT THE AGE OF 52.

20. SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS Effective Insults Memorable Phrases

21. NEXT UP: THE REFORMATION This piece of History gets it’s own Power Point!!!