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The Northern Renaissance (Northern Writers Try to Reform Society…

- - - - Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
        
        Flanders became the Northern European Renaissance capitol
        
        Artist: Jan van Eyck
        
        He developed a new style of painting using oil paint to layer colors and make colors and figures seem more lifelike.
        
        He was very skilled at making paintings with only one person, or even big crowds that were very detailed and lifelike.
        
        What can be learned about people's daily lives from examining the painting "Peasant Wedding"?
        
        We can learn that common people had their own traditions for weddings and public get togethers. They also worked together to get things done with the many people in their families.
        
        Info on Jan can Eyck
        
        He was another German artist that had a very realistic feel to his art. He painted many portraits of royalty.
        
        Info on Hans Holbein
      - He travelled to Germany in 1494 and spread his paintings and carvings of realistic religious figures to the area.
      - Info on Albrecht
    - - The Italian Renaissance artist moving to Northern Europe brought along different ideas and styles. Plus the stronger focus on humanism made realistic art popular.
- - - - Wrote The Praise of Folly, which made fun of greedy merchants, heartsick lovers, quarrelsome scholars, and pompous priests
      - Believes in a Christianity of the heart, not one of ceremonies or rules
      - What similarities were there in the works of Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?
        
        In both of their works, they discuss that show that there is something wrong with the society that they live in and that there is room for improvement. Erasmus talks about the issues in their society while More showed a better model of society
      - More About Desiderius Erasmus
    - - Tried to show a better model of society
      - Wrote Utopia, which was about an imaginary land where corruption, greed, and war had slowly been depleted.
        
        Wrote in Latin, but was translated to more languages as his book became popular
        
        In Greek, utopia means "no place"
      - What similarities were there in the works of Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More?
        
        In both of their works, they discuss that show that there is something wrong with the society that they live in and that there is room for improvement. Erasmus talks about the issues in their society while More showed a better model of society
      - More About Thomas More
  - - - Highly educated for the time period and was one of the first women to earn a living as a writer
      - Wrote short stories, novels, biographies, and manuals in French
      - Wrote The Book of The Cities of Ladies, which talked about the objections men had to educating women.
      - First European writers to question the different treatment of boys and girls
      - What qualities made Christine de Pizan unusual for her time and place?
        
        She was highly educated which was unusual for this time because women were not as commonly educated as men. She also made money off of writing which was unusual because women weren't generally supposed to be creating art.
- - - - Queen Elizabeth was well educated, knew many languages, and wrote poetry and music. She was very supportive of the arts.
        
        William Shakespeare
        
        He lived in London and wrote many famous plays and poems that are still very relavent today.
        
        He specifically worked to show the deeper emotions, flaws and drama/conflict in normal human lives for men and women if his time.
        
        How did the Elizabethan Age reflect the values of the Italian Renaissance?
        
        It focussed on the arts and humanism that the Italian Renaissance was all about.
        
        Info on William Shakespeare
- - - - More About the Invention of the First Printing Press and Bi Sheng
    - - European languages had less characters, so the movable type printer was practical
  - - - Printed a complete bible with this process in 1455
        
        Why do you think the bible was the first book printed with movable type?
        
        It was the first book printed because it was the most popular thing at this time and the most common book that people would be. It was also extremely long and would be much easier to print instead of write.
      - How would you compare and contrast the impact of the printing press and the internet?
        
        They both allow information to be circulated at a much quicker rate, but not everyone could necessarily print while everyone can put anything on the internet.