The Northern Renaissance

Christine De Pizan

May 10, 1364

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_de_PizanChristine de Pisan was born in Venice,1364 and died1430. She stayed in France all her life, She got an excellent education. She spoke French and Italian, and possibly Latin as well. In 1380, when she was about fifteen, Christine married Etienne du Castel, a court secretary. her husband died and she was left a widow at the age of Twenty-five with three small kids, she decided to make an income with her writing with her peoms,ballads and songs.The Changes of Fortune is one of her famou

Jan van Eyck

Jul 9, 1395

Jan died july 9th 1441. Dating back to the sixteenth-century Vite of the Tuscan artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, people think Jan van Eyck invented oil painting. he was traditionally known as the "father of oil painting."

Leonardo da Vinci was born

Apr 15, 1452

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, his inventions played a major role in the Northern Renaissance and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.

The Northern Renaissance Begins

Jan 1, 1453

By the end of the Hundred Years War, in 1453, changes in art, literature and philosophy were brewing in Northern Europe. The Renaissance came to Northern Europe via the French king, Francis I. Francis rebuilt the palace at Fontainebleau, introducing the Italian Mannerist Style, with its dense Roman detailing to its interior decor. He also brought the famed Italian artist, Leonardo Da Vinci to the French Court. Da Vinci undoubtedly had a great influence over many local artists.

Desiderius Erasmus'

Oct 28, 1466

He was born the illegitimate son of a priest and a widow. Both his parents were infected with the Bubonic Plague, a disease that disfigures and kills in under four days. After the death of his parents, his guardians sent him away from his remaining family to a monastery.He became one of the most famous writers, scholars, and pacifists of the 15th century.

Albrecht Dürer

May 21, 1471

German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist, generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work. He greatly affected the Renaissance period in the North because of his fabulous creations and portraits that he made on his P.O.V.S.

Hans Baldung

Dec 31, 1484

Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (b. 1484/85, Schwäbisch-Gmünd, d. 1545, Strasbourg) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was surnamed Grien or Grün because of his fondness for the color green. Although he probably studied with Dürer, he evolved a personal style revealing his interest in brilliant color, effects of light, and expressively contorted forms. Baldung was also esteemed as a portrait painter and designer for stained glass.

Mannerism

Period: Aug 5, 1520 to May 28, 1580

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Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, this term is also refered 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.

William Shakespeare

Apr 23, 1564

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 23, 1564. Shakespeare got married to Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582, He was 18 and she was 26. Their first daughter, Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583. Later in they had twins: Hamnet and Judith, born February 2, 1585. Hamnet died at the age of 11, on August 11, 1596. Even tho he had kids and a wife he was famous for his plays and poetry;

his most famous plays were Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet,

Christopher Marlowe

May 26, 1564

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Marlowe was born to a shoemaker in Canterbury named John Marlowe and his wife Catherine. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 26 February 1564, and likely to have been born a few days before. He was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.

Printing press

Apr 11, 1811

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Modern paper and print technology first came from China. By 593 A.D., the first printing press was invented in China, and the first printed newspaper was available in Beijing in 700 A.D Chinese printer Pi Sheng invented movable type in 1041 A.D it was soon changed into western print.