Northern Renaissance

Examples of Northern Renaissance in the following topics:

• The Northern Renaissance

  • The Northern Renaissance describes the Renaissance in northern Europe.
  • In some areas, the Northern Renaissance was distinct from the Italian Renaissance in its centralization of political power.
  • As in Italy, the decline of feudalism opened the way for the cultural, social, and economic changes associated with the Renaissance in northern Europe.
  • Although Renaissance humanism and the large number of surviving classical artworks and monuments in Italy encouraged many Italian painters to explore Greco-Roman themes, Northern Renaissance painters developed other subject matters, such as landscape and genre painting.
  • As Renaissance art styles moved through northern Europe, they were adapted to local customs.

• Panel Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • The court of the Holy Roman Emperor played an important role in panel paintings during the Northern Renaissance.
  • The court of the Holy Roman Emperor, originally based in Prague, played an important role in supporting artists as patrons during the Northern Renaissance.
  • Albrech Durer is a well known artist of the Northern Italian Renaissance who found a patron in Emperor Maximillian I.

• Art for Aristocrats

  • Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting represents the 16th century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries.
  • These artists span from the Antwerp Mannerists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, at the start of the 16th century to the late Northern Mannerists, such as Hendrik Goltzius and Joachim Wtewael, at the end of the century.
  • After 1550, the Flemish and Dutch painters begin to show more interest in nature, leading to a style that incorporates Renaissance elements, but remained far from the elegant lightness of Italian Renaissance art.
  • The Fall of Icarus (now in fact, considered a copy of a Bruegel work), although highly atypical in many ways, combines several elements of Northern Renaissance painting.
  • The Fall of Icarus, although highly atypical in many ways, combines several elements of Northern Renaissance painting.

• German Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • German Renaissance is reflective of Italian and German influence in its paintings, and one is not present without the other.
  • The concept of the Northern Renaissance or German Renaissance is somewhat confused by the continuation of the use of elaborate Gothic ornament until well into the 16th century, even in works that are undoubtedly Renaissance in their treatment of the human figure and other respects.
  • Though retaining a distinctively German style, his work shows strong Italian influence, and is often taken to represent the start of the German Renaissance in visual art, which for the next forty years replaced the Netherlands and France as the area producing the greatest innovation in Northern European art.
  • Hans the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style.
  • The next significant German artists worked in the rather artificial style of Northern Mannerism, which they had to learn in Italy or Flanders.

• Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • Due to important economic and political links between Spain and Flanders from the mid-15th century onwards, the early Renaissance in Spain was heavily influenced by Netherlandish painting, leading to the identification of a Hispano-Flemish school of painters.
  • Overall the Renaissance and subsequent Mannerist styles are hard to categorize in Spain, due to the mix of Flemish and Italian influences, and regional variations.
  • Apart from technical aspects, the themes and spirit of the Renaissance were modified to the Spanish culture and religious environment.
  • From the Renaissance style, he also frequently used sfumato modeling, and simple compositions, but combined them with Flemish-style precision of details.
  • Universally known for his great impact in bringing the Italian Renaissance to Spain, El Greco studied the great Italian masters of his time - Titian, Tintoretto, and Michelangelo - when he lived in Italy from 1568 to 1577.

• Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerist elements are all important to the architecture of the Iberian peninsula in the 16th century.
  • Renaissance architecture reached the Iberian peninsula in the 16th century, ushering in a new style that gradually replaced the Gothic architecture which had been popular for the centuries preceding the Renaissance.
  • In Spain, the Renaissance began to be grafted to Gothic forms in the last decades of the 15th century.
  • The adoption of the Renaissance style in Portugal was gradual and intimately linked to Gothic architecture.
  • Manueline was succeeded by a brief Early Renaissance phase (c. 1530-1550), followed by the adoption of Mannerist, or, late Renaissance forms.

• The Church During the Italian Renaissance

  • The new humanist ideals of the Renaissance, although more secular in many aspects, developed against a Christian backdrop, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art.
  • The Renaissance began in times of religious turmoil.
  • The City of Rome, the Papacy, and the Papal States were all affected by the Renaissance.
  • The new ideals of humanism, although more secular in some aspects, developed against a Christian backdrop, especially in the Northern Renaissance.
  • Analyze the Church's role in Italy at the time of the Renaissance

• Introduction to the Renaissance

  • The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and in line with general skepticism of discrete periodizations, there has been much debate among historians reacting to the 19th-century glorification of the "Renaissance" and individual culture heroes as "Renaissance men," questioning the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation.
  • The word Renaissance has also been extended to other historical and cultural movements, such as the Carolingian Renaissance and the Renaissance of the 12th century.
  • The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
  • It was in Italy, specifically Northern Italy, where the Renaissance movement took shape.
  • Describe the influences of the Renaissance and historical perspectives by modern-day writers

• The Rise of the Vernacular

  • Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies of the Renaissance.
  • The earliest Renaissance literature appeared in 14th century Italy; Dante, Petrarch and Machiavelli are notable examples of Italian Renaissance writers.
  • The English Renaissance and the Renaissance in Scotland date from the late 15th century to the early 17th century.
  • In northern Europe the scholarly writings of Erasmus, the plays of Shakespeare, the poems of Edmund Spenser and the writings of Sir Philip Sidney may be considered Renaissance in character.
  • The impact of the Renaissance varied across the continent; countries that were predominantly Catholic or Protestant experienced the Renaissance differently.

• The High Renaissance

  • High Renaissance art is deemed as "High" because it is seen as the period in which the artistic aims and goals of the Renaissance reached their greatest application.
  • High Renaissance art is characterized by references to classical art and delicate application of developments from the Early Renaissance (such as on-point perspective).
  • His frescoes rank among the greatest works of Renaissance art.
  • Mannerism is an artistic style that emerged from the later years of the 16th century and lasted as a popular aesthetic style in Italy until about 1580, when the Baroque began to replace it (although Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe).
  • The term is also used to refer to some Late Gothic painters working in northern Europe from about 1500 to 1530, especially the Antwerp Mannerists, a group unrelated to the Italian movement.