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Renaissance North Vs. The Rest

Uploaded by surfchick on Feb 21, 2005

Renaissance North Vs. The Rest

The Northern Renaissance, and the Italian Renaissance are different in many ways and you can tell by the differences in their paintings, literature, and even the way they lived their life style. For the most part you can say that the Northern Renaissance was based upon the human belief with Christianity. While the Italian Renaissance was more humanistic, with the rebirth of the belief in human ability. That was the main difference. The other difference was the attitude. The attitude of the Southern renaissance was laid back, and had more realistic paintings of everyday life. While the Northern Renaissance, was more up tight, and trying to struggle against the Italians with their spiritual paintings, and their belief of God.

The Italian Renaissance was an explosion of ideas. The North heard what was happening down in the south, and flocked to see what was going on. Only to come back with just as many ideas. So the painters that were in the North were deeply moved by God, and painted many religious picture. The South though was moved by something else. It was called humanism, or the belief in human abilities. The Italians painted every day secular pictures. While the North painted everyday pictures with saints or other deeply religious people or items in them. Still the big difference was the people themselves, and how moved they were by God.

In the North, humanists are deeply affected by the church because of the significance it has with God. So of course they are going to analyze it with a critical eye. The way they criticized it was in written words. The Italians, looked at art, literature, life and classic lifestyles for their writing/artistically ideas. They each tried to recreate their past. The North tried to rebuild a stronger church, while the south tried to rebuild the society and greatness of the Romans and Greeks that they once had. Proving each to want a better society.

Another big difference was the fight between what they clung on to. The North still clung, or was transitioning from the middle ages. Which meant there were still gloomy paintings, and lifestyles. And of course the Church. The church was probably the biggest thing in the Middle Ages, besides the reoccurrence of the varied plagues. But the north was desperately trying to hang on to the past by trying to make the church, like...

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Uploaded by:   surfchick

Date:   02/21/2005

Category:   Art and Music

Length:   4 pages (845 words)

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