Do Now: Identify the Renaissance characteristics of Jan van Eyck’s The Madonna and Chancellor of Rolin (1435)
Northern Renaissance By 1450 population of northern Europe beginning to grow Wealth increased patronage of artists Renaissance ideas spread out of Italy Emphasis on realism Social reform
Flemish Jan van Eyck Oil based paint Realistic details Subtle colors Realistic details Personality of subjects
Jan van Eyck 1434 Wedding Portrait
Flemish Pieter Bruegel- 1550 Realistic details and individual people Large numbers of people Scenes of everyday peasant life (weddings, dances, and harvests) Balanced use of space
Pieter Bruegel The Peasant Dance- 1568
Peasant Wedding
Peter Paul Rubens 1600s Baroque Wide knowledge of mythology, Bible, and classical history St. Ignatius of Loyola- 1616
German Albrecht Durer - “German Leonardo” painter, engraver, mathematician Studied in Italy-1494 Produced woodcuts and engravings Religious subjects, classical myths, and realistic landscapes
Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse Wood cut
Albrecht Durer The Adoration of the Magi- 1504
Northern Humanism Critical of Christian Church to inspire change Reform of Society Education Desiderius Erasmus- Holland Thomas More- England
Erasmus Believed “all sound learning is secular learning.” The Praise of Folly- 1509 Poked fun at greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars, and pompous priests Believed in Christianity of the heart All people should study the Bible He “laid the egg that Luther hatched”
More Utopia- 1516 “no place” Ideal Place or Imaginary Land No greed, corruption, or war No one is idle, all are educated, and justice is used to end crime rather than to eliminate the criminal Translated into vernacular languages
More “Gold and silver, of which money is made, are treated…that no one values them more highly than their true nature deserves. Who does not see that they are far inferior to iron in usefulness since without iron mortals cannot live any more than without fire and water?”
Printing Press 1440 Johann Gutenberg- Germany Movable type First full sized book Gutenberg Bible (1455) Books now cheap enough to buy Before One Book took 5 months After 500 books took 5 months
Francois Rabelais French humanist Monk, physician, Greek scholar Gargantua and Pantagruel Offers opinions on religion, education, and other serious subjects Deeply religious, had doubts about organized church
England- Elizabethan Age Shakespeare- English poet and playwright 1590-1613 37 plays Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet Hamlet History Plays Expresses Renaissance view of human nature and examines human flaws Universal themes in realistic settings
The Globe Theatre
Renaissance Themes Individualism Worldliness Learning Antiquity Reform