CHAPTER 13: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH

I.  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

·        To describe the spread of humanism and artistic ideas to Northern Europe and England

·        To explain the program of changes proposed by religious reformers in the Reformation, the causes of the Reformation, and the cultural significance of the Reformation

·        To discuss the relationship between humanism and the Reformation

·        To list the most important religious reformers

·        To present the intellectual developments in the Northern Renaissance, including the growth of science

·        To detail the most important paintings, architecture, and music of the Northern Renaissance

·        To set forth the major works of William Shakespeare

II.  OUTLINE OF CHAPTER CONTENTS

 

Humanism Travels North

          France

          Germany

          The Netherlands

          England

The Reformation

          Consequences of Luther’s Challenge

                   Anabaptism

                   Calvinism

                   The Church of England

          Causes of the Reformation

          Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation

          The Cultural Significance of the Reformation

The Growth of Science

 The Visual Arts in Northern Europe

          Painting in Germany

                   Albrecht Durer

                   Matthias Grunewald

                   Albrecht Altdorfer

          Painting in the Netherlands

                   Hieronymus Bosch

                   Pieter Bruegel the Elder

                   Caterina Van Hemessen

          Art and Architecture in France

                   Jean Clouet

                   Chateau de Chambord

                   The Louvre

          Elizabethan England

          Are in Elizabethan England

                   Netherlandish Artists in the Tudor Court:  Hans Holbein the Younger

                             And Levina Teerlinc

                   Nicholas Hilliard

Music

          Music in France and Germany

          Elizabethan Music

                   Thomas Tallis

                   William Byrd

                   Thomas Morley

                   John Dowland

Literature

                   Michel Eyquen de Montaigne

          English Literature

                   Sir Thomas More

                   Thomas Wyatt

                   Edmund Spenser

                   Queen Elizabeth I

          Drama in Elizabethan England

                   Christopher Marlowe

                   William Shakespeare

                   Shakespeare’s Sonnets

III.  FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES

Figure 13.1  British actor David Tennant as Hamlet, 2008, Royal Shakespeare

          Company, The Courtyard Theatre

Figure 13.2  Hans Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII in Wedding Dress, 1540

Figure 13.3  Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther and His Wife Katherina von

          Bora (double portrait), 1529

Map 13.1  Religious Divisions in Europe ca. 1600

Figure 13.4  Andreas Vesalius, Third Musculature Table from De humani corporis

          Fabrica libri septem, 1543

Figure 13.5  Principal Discoveries and Inventions in the 16^th Century

Figure 13.6  Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, 1500

Figure 13.7  Albrecht Durer, Adam and Eve, 1504

Figure 13.8  Albrecht Durer, Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1513

Figure 13.9  Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion, center panel of the Isenheim

          Altarpiece (closed), ca. 1510-1515

Figure 13.10  Albrecht Altdorfer, Battle of Alexander at Issus, 1529

Figure 13.11 Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, 1505-1510

Figure 13.12  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, ca. 1562-1564

Figure 13.13  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565

Figure 13.14  Caterina Van Hemessen, Portrait of a Lady, 1551

Figure 13.15  Jean Clouet, Francis I, ca. 1523-1530

Figure 13.16  Chateau de Chambord, Loire Valley, France, begun 1519

Figure 13.17  Pierre Lescot, west wing of the Cour Carree (Square Court) of the

          Louvre, Paris, France

Figure 13.18  Hans Holbein the Younger, Anne of Cleves, ca. 1539-1540

Figure 13.19  Levina Teerlinc, Lady Catherine Grey, ca. 1555-60

Figure 13.20  Nicholas Hilliard, Ermine Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, 1585

Figure 13.21  Thomas Moreley, score page from The First Booke of Canzonets

          [for] Two Voices, 1595

Figure 13.22  Replica of Globe Theater, London, United Kingdom

Figure 13.23  Eduard Grutzner, Falstaff, 1910