Northern Renaissance #6 How did the Italian Renaissance differ from the Northern Renaissance?

Foundation… Monarchy in Europe – England – France – Spain – Holy Roman Empire

Why did the North have a Renaissance? – Import  Italian Learning Students Merchants Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life – Northern Humanists are different Diverse background Devoted to religious reforms – Foundation for REFORMATION! Wrote for the everyday person – Helped by the printing press » Ideas spread

ERASMUS You would never believe what sport and entertainment your mortal manikins provide daily for the gods. These gods, you know, set aside their sober forenoon hours for composing quarrels and giving ear to prayers. But after that, when they are well moistened with nectar and have no desire for the transaction of business, they seek out some promontory of heaven and, sitting there with faces bent downward, they watch what mortal men are adoring. There is no show like it. Good God, what a theater! How various the action of fools! (I may say that now and then I take a seat alongside the gods of the poets.) — “The Run of Fools,” In Praise of Folly

Printing Press Prior… – Increase in schools in university (NEW universities) Increase in literacy Increase in demand for books – Cheap way to make paper Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press – Mechanic way to print books – Old  carving, inking, stamping

Impact of the printing press – Increase in production Created more jobs Topics: religion, almanacs, how-to book – New profession  Printer – Humanists gain international readers Impact of Literacy – Political and religious propaganda – Nurtured thinking

Educational & Religious Reform Germany – foundation for Christian Reform during the reformation academic freedom good scholarship England – Thomas More Utopia Imaginary society of tolerance, reason and commonality

Off With Your Head!!

France – Education and Religious Reform Caused by French invasion of Italy – young, reform minded humanists Spain – Humanism serviced the Catholic Church – Emphasis on strict Catholicism

Changes in European Thinking exclusively religious  more secular one age of unquestioning faith and mysticism  belief in reason and scientific inquiry. – Mysticism: consciousness and belief in the reality of God Was the North and Italy alike in this statement?

ART Flemish Masters – Netherlands Emerged at the same time as Italian Renaissance Similarities: religion and money Differences: the north didn’t paint about the classic world Jan van Eyck

Erasmus: Northern Humanist Religious and education reformer – Unite Classical ideas and Christian Ideals Humanity and civic virtue WITH love and piety Ambition: Provide original religious texts Impact: Tools for reforms during the Reformation – Christian humanists Wrote for everyday man

Italian Idealistic Art – Classical Greek & Roman Mythology Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus Art Style – Symmetry & balance Northern Focused on common, everyday man Art (Flemish) – Portraits and domestic scenes Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife Art Style – Naturalism and surface details

Italy Political – Powerful, independent city states Central power Venice, Milan, Florence Literature & Thinkers – Influenced by classics – Humanism Rational thought Dignity of man Northern Political – Development of nation states – More conflict between religion and politics – Kings Literature & thinkers – Focused on problems of the church – Emphasized Christian Values – Humanism: Education & religious reform Thinkers were more diverse – Wrote for everyday man Printing Press

How did the Italian Renaissance differ from the Northern Renaissance?

SOAPS Homework: – Erasmus Reading