Artists of the northern Renaissance - stressed education and classical learning along with religious themes. Writers for a new audience include a. Rabelais French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author 1. In gargantua and pantaggruel he tells of the adventures of two gentle giants.
Artists of the northern Renaissance - stressed education and classical learning along with religious themes. Writers for a new audience include a. Rabelais French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author 1. In gargantua and pantaggruel he tells of the adventures of two gentle giants.
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Artists of the northern Renaissance - stressed education and classical learning along with religious themes. Writers for a new audience include a. Rabelais French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author 1. In gargantua and pantaggruel he tells of the adventures of two gentle giants.
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A. A DzGerman Leonardodz - Albrecht Durer 1. Went to Italy to study the Italian masters 2. Used what he learned to make | an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and uses it to make prints 3. He helped to spread the Italian Renaissance ideas in Germany . Flemish painters of 1400s 1. Jan and Hubert van Eyck a.) Developed oil paint which was used to produce strong colors and a hard surface that could survive for centuries
2. Pieter ruegel (1500s)
a.) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life
3. Peter Pail Rubens (1600s)
a.) blended the realistic tradition of Flemish painters with the classical themes and artistic freedom of the Italian Renaissance II. Northern Humanists - stressed education and classical learning along with religious themes A. Erasmus Ȃ Dutch priest and humanist 1. Produced a new Greek edition of the New Testament 2. Called for translation of the bible into the | Ȃ everyday language of ordinary people 3. He believed an individualǯs chief duties were to be open- minded and of good will toward others 4. As a priest he called for reform to Church corruption . Thomas More Ȃ English humanist 1. In i he describes an ideal society in which men and women live in peace and harmony a.) No one is idle, all are educated and justice is used to end crime u
used today to describe an ideal society III. Writers for a New Audience A. Rabelais Ȃ French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author 1. In
he tells of the adventures of two gentle giants 2. Rabelais uses his characters to offer opinions on religion, education, and other serious subjects . Shakespeare Ȃ English poet and playwright 1. Wrote 37 plays that are still performed today 2. Comedies laugh at the follies of young people in love 3. History plays depict the power struggles of English kings 4. Tragedies show people crushed by powerful forces 5. More than 1700 words appeared for the first time in his works including bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick, hurry, sneak C. Cervantes Ȃ Spanish author `
- entertaining tale that mocks romantic notions of medieval chivalry 2. The novel follows the adventures of Don Quixote (a knight) and Sancho Panza (his faithful servant) IV. The Printing Revolution A. Johann Gutenberg 1. In 1456 he printed the first complete edition of the ible using the first printing press and printing inks in the West 2. Within 20 years, this invention made book production even easier 3. Printed books were cheaper and easier to use than handwritten copies 4. With books more readily available, more people learned to read 5. Readers gained access to a wide range of knowledge