1. Do Now: Identify the Renaissance characteristics
of Jan van Eyck’s
The Madonna and Chancellor of Rolin
(1435)

2. 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

3. Flemish Jan van Eyck Oil based paint Realistic details
Subtle colors
Realistic details
Personality of subjects

4. Jan van Eyck 1434 Wedding Portrait

5. 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

6. Pieter Bruegel The Peasant Dance- 1568

7. Peasant Wedding

8. Peter Paul Rubens 1600s Baroque
Wide knowledge of mythology, Bible, and classical history
St. Ignatius of Loyola- 1616

9. German Albrecht Durer - “German Leonardo”
painter, engraver, mathematician
Studied in Italy-1494
Produced woodcuts and engravings
Religious subjects, classical myths, and realistic landscapes

11. Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse Wood cut

12. Albrecht Durer The Adoration of the Magi- 1504

13. Northern Humanism Critical of Christian Church to inspire change
Reform of Society
Education
Desiderius Erasmus- Holland
Thomas More- England

14. Erasmus Believed “all sound learning is secular learning.”
The Praise of Folly
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”

15. 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

16. 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?”

17. 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

19. 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

20. England- Elizabethan Age
Shakespeare- English poet and playwright
 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

21. The Globe Theatre

22. Renaissance Themes
Individualism
Worldliness
Learning
Antiquity
Reform