The Northern Renaissance

HWH UNIT 1

CHAPTER 1.2

Gutenberg’s Printing Press (c. 1455)

Northern vs. Italian Renaissance

NORTHERN

• Flanders and

Germany

• Religious

Humanism

• Started after Italian

Renaissance

ITALIAN

• Florence and Italy

• Civic Humanism

• Started first

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

Praise of Folly (1509)

Julius Excluded from Heaven (1514)

Portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein (1523), The National Gallery, London

(Sir/Saint) Thomas More (1478-1536)

Utopia (1516)

Portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein (1527), The Frick Gallery, NYC

Northern Renaissance Art

The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Van Eyck (1434)The National Gallery, London

Self Portrait of Albrecht Dürer (1500)Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Dürer (1498)Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Portrait of Erasmus by Holbein (1523) Musée du Louvre, Paris

The French Ambassadors by Holbein (1533)National Gallery, London

Henry VIII by Holbein (1540)Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Peasant Wedding by Breugel (1568)Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Harvesters by Breugel (1565)Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York