The Renaissance Spreads

Renassiance Moves North• Why? Growth of cities across Europe &• End of Hundred Years War• Trade expanded• Wealthy merchant class created• England & France unified countries who’s

monarchs supported the arts• Viewed artistic achievement as source of pride

for their country• Italian artist fled Italy & shared

techniques/styles

Northern Artist and Writers

• Differed from Italian Renaissance in a few ways:

• North did not study classics (Greeks and Romans) as much as Italians

• North created works with more detail of everyday life

Memling- Portrait of an Old Woman

Albrecht Durer

• Realistic and detailed• Greatest German

Renaissance figure• “Four Horsemen of the

Apocalypse” • Portrays: death, war,

plague and famine

Our Lady of the Rosary Day

Jan Van Eyck and Pieter Bruges

• Flemish (Northwest Europe) painters

• Eyck- detailed and bright colors

• Annunciation• Bruegel- everyday life

(dancing and playing)

Eyck- Giovanni Arnofini and his Bride

Bruegel- Netherlandish Proverbs

Do you know William Shakespeare?

• Romeo and Juliet• Hamlet• Macbeth• A Midsummer’s Night

Dream• The Taming of the Shrew • King Lear• Julius Caesar • And soooooo much more

More About Shakespeare

• Born 1564 in England• Wrote comedies,

tragedies and history• Had strong

understanding of human nature

• Works are still preformed and popular TODAY