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Chapter 1 Section 2 Reading Focus
• Which artists brought the Renaissance to northern Europe?
• What themes did humanist thinkers and other writers explore?
• What impact did the printing revolution have on Europe?
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Chapter 1 Section 2 Vocabulary
• Engraving- art form in which an artist etches a design on metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make prints.
• Vernacular- everyday language of ordinary people.
• Utopian- the ideal society
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Background
1050–1350• Population growth• Economic
development• City-states
1200–late 1500s• Artistic
achievementsGiovanni Bellini, Sacra Conversazione
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Intellectual Developments
• Humanism• Revival of antiquity• Importance of the
individual• Celebration of
humanity• Secular/worldly focusTitian,
Assumption of the Virgin
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Humanism and Individuality
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Ghiberti’s Doors
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Ghiberti’s Doors
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Donatello’s David
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Michelangelo’s David
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Renaissance Architecture
• Classical influences• Mathematical harmony• The circle
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Brunelleschi’s Dome
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St. Peter’s Basilica
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Inside St. Peter’s
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Inside St. Peter’s
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Inside St. Peter’s
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The Northern Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer
• 1471–1528• Introduced
Italian Renaissance style of art to Germany
Dürer, self-portrait
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Hans Holbein the Younger• 1497–1543• German
painter• Became
court painter to King Henry VIII of England
Holbein, self-portrait A Holbein portrait of King Henry VIII
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Jan van Eyck• 1390–1441• Painted in oils• Detail, realism
Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban (possibly a self-
portrait)
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The Northern Renaissance
• More focused on Christianity than the Italian Renaissance
• Began late 15th
century/early 16th century
Altarpiece for the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Ghent, created by Northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck
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The Printing Press
• Invented by Johann Gutenberg in the mid-1400s
• Made printed works cheaper and more readily available
• Increased literacy in Europe
• Helped spread new ideas
A replica of Gutenberg’s printing press
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Christian Humanism• Union of
classical influences and Christianity
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
• Influence on northern Renaissance artChristian humanist
scholar Desiderius Erasmus
A woodcut of Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer, a German
Renaissance artist
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Renaissance Politics and Economics: Legacy