CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 19 with correct answers

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 19The Renaissance - correct answer The Renaissance was best understood as a kind of wave that swept from South to North over these 200 years. () -started in the South, with Italy (1400) -as we move North-started at 1600-see Shakespeare writing plays-Northern Re. occurs at dead end of the "Renaissance period" Comparison of North and South (Italy) Renaissance: 1) South - correct answer -Italian Renaissance=more secular in tone and nature, more humanistic, subject matter more deeply classical (Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" sums it up) into more drama 2) North - correct answer -Northern Renaissance=more religious, art is more devotional, painting them with more emotion-more religious experience and expression of faith -Matthias Grünewald-painter-"Crucifixion of Christ"-display Gothic medieval devotional values-Christ brutally, violently displayed Similarities between North and South Renaissance: - correct answer 1) both valued individuality (Shakespeare) Dürer (northern renaissance painter) painted his self portrait-takes humanistic values and gives it a devotional theme (depicts himself as Christ) 2) both steeped in classical learning 3) Northern revival of learning - correct answer ~Erasmus—he's best known for his book in "Praise of Folly," which is a satiric book that he wrote about Renaissance values. ~Sir Thomas More- author of "Utopia" ~Martin Luther and John Calvin were also humanists and classical scholars; -Shakespeare