Compare+the+Italian+Renaissance+and+Northern+Renaissance

Vera Yevteyev

Compare and contrast Italian Renaissance with Northern Renaissance

**Italian Renaissance**
 * **Petrarch = father of Italian humanism**
 * Middle Ages= period of darkness
 * Humanism revolved around the study of classic literature
 * Human intellectuals must express their potential to the fullest (often leading to no life outside of learning)
 * 3 Estates: 1st estate = papacy, 2nd estate= nobility, 3rd estate= peasantry and everyone else
 * **Machiavelli's** //The Prince// as well as //The Discourses//
 * Education was mainly for those who could afford it though free education occasionally provided
 * Big 3 Artists included: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael
 * **Leonardo da Vinci** - //The Last Supper, Mona Lisa//
 * **Raphael**- //School of Athens//
 * **Michelangelo**- marble statue of //David//
 * Art often revolved around religion



**Northern Renaissance**
 * Northern humanists aka Christian humanists
 * **Erasmus= most influential Christian humanist**
 * Translated //New Testament//
 * Humanism still revolved around classics but it was more religiously based than the Italian humanists
 * This included //Scripture// interpretations
 * "inner piety", power of education, change in society through the change of the individuals living in it
 * **Thomas More** - //Utopia// (included a world with a new social system that revolved around cooperation and equality)
 * T**homas a Kempis** - //The Imitation of Christ// (de-emphasis on religious dogma)
 * **Martin Luther**...(go look on someone else's post for more information about him)
 * Zwinglinism, Calvinism, Anabaptism
 * Art based around religion but showed more suffering of mankind



**Sample Thesis**
Both the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance revolved mainly around religious ideals, however, they contrasted sharply with each other when it came to society's views on art, literary interpretations, and intellectual life.

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