Transcript day 2 - Renaissance Contx

 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.
Hi dilly ho
dilly!!
 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