| A | B |
|---|
| where the Northern Renaissance began | Flanders |
| the "German Leonardo" | Albrecht Durer |
| Albrecht Durer | studied in Italy and helped bring Renaissance to Germany |
| Jan & Hubert van Eyck | painted townspeople in everyday activities |
| introduced oil painting | Jan & Hubert van Eyck |
| Pieter Bruegel | used bright colors to portray peasant life |
| Peter Paul Reubens | blended realistic traditions of Flemish painters with classical themes of Italian Renaissance |
| similarity between Northern and Italian humanists | stressed education and classical learning |
| difference of Northern humanists from Italian humanists | believed the reevival of ancient learning should bring moral & religious reforms |
| Erasmus | called for reform of the church |
| called for Bible to be translated from Latin into vernacular | Erasmus |
| language of ordinary people | vernacular |
| pressed for social reforms and wrote of a utopian society | Thomas More |
| Johann Gutenberg | printed Bible using first printing press |
| effects of the printing press and movable type | books were cheaper, more people learn to read, readers become aware of many new ideas |
| Rabelais | French monk: physician, Greek scholar, author |
| gave opinions about religion, education & society in his work Gargantua & Pantagruel | Rabelais |
| Shakespeare | English poet & playwright |
| greatly enriched the English language & his plays are still produced | Shakespeare |
| Cervantes | Spanish novelist who made fun of romantic notions of medieval chivalry |
| wrote: Don Quixote | Cervantes |
