Transcript The Renaissance spreads

How do the following excerpts
describe humanism? Explain.
“To thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man”
 Hamlet
 Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings
 Julius Caesar
 How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world, That has such people in’t.
 The Tempest
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The Northern Renaissance
Begins Mid 1400s…
• parts of northern France,
Belgium and Netherlands
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Northern Artists
 Flemish
 Jan
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and Hubert van Eyck
First to use oil paint
 Pieter
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Bruegel
Lively scenes of peasant life
 Peter
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painters
Paul Rubens
Painter and diplomat
 Albrecht
 Tried
Durer – “German Leonardo”
to achieve ideal beauty with careful
examination of human form
Pieter Bruegel’s Peasant Dance
Northern Humanists & Writers
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Erasmus
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Sir Thomas More
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Wrote Utopia – a perfect society
Beheaded for treason
Shakespeare
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Called for reforms in Church
Exposed immoral behavior of clergy
English poet and playwright
Tragedies and comedies
Cervantes
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Don Quixote
Printing Revolution
– Johann Gutenberg developed
moveable metal type in Germany
 Printed a complete edition of Bible
 Implications?
 1456
 Cheaper
production of books
 Literacy increases
 Exposure to new ideas