 The ideas of Renaissance artists, painters, and thinkers spread all throughout Europe  People would visit Italy, and take these ideas with them back home  This happening would occur in England, France, Germany, and Flanders

 Population rebounding from plague  Population rebounding from end of 100 years war between Britain and France  Wealthy merchants began being able to sponsor the arts in cities  English and French monarchs became patrons of the arts

 1494, France invades Naples  As a result, artists flee to Northern Europe for a safer life  This moved artists to places such as Germany and Flanders  Many of these works of art portrayed religious subjects, myths, or landscapes.

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 The support of wealthy merchants made Flanders the cultural center of the Northern Renaissance  This is where the use of oil based paintings were first developed

 In 1440, a German craftsman named Johann Gutenberg invented a machine that incorporated several inventions in one.

 Humanists in Northern Europe looked at the failure of the Catholic Church to inspire people to live a Catholic life.  They wanted to completely reform society  Their main driving forced proved to be Education for both boys and girls.

 Two of the most famous Christian Humanists: Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More. In, “In Praise of Folly”, Erasmus poked fun at foolish merchants, scholars, and pompous priests. To improve society, people just study the Bible In “Utopia”, More tried to show a better model of society without greed, money, corruption, and war

 Spanish writer  Wrote Don Quixote Mocked medieval ideas of chivalry

 Wrote the Decameron Stories told by seven women and three men who have fled from the plague in Florence Funny and colorful stories

 One of the finest writers in the English language  Invented hundreds of new words  Told stories of tragedy, love, ambition, greed etc.

 Produced realistic and imaginative pictures that portrayed daily life

a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting). He is sometimes referred to as the "Peasant Bruegel."

a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since..

 Changes in the Arts - art drew on legacies in Greek and Roman styles - Paintings and sculptures became more realistic - Writers used their own languages to express ideas - The arts praised individual achievements

 Changes in Society Mass printing Great availability of works Public accounts of new discoveries and techniques Published legal proceedings Christian Humanist’s beliefs on how life should live People began to question political and religious structures