Catastrophe and Creativity (1350-1500) - New Movements to Match the Times - The Northern Renaissance
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Name examples of writers crisscrossing the continent.
- Christine de Pisan, one of the few female humanists of the time, came from Italy to write for patrons at the French court.
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), who lived most of his life in Germany, went to Italy to study with Italian artists.
- The Medici family in Florence avidly collected art from Flanders.
How did the Duchy of Burgundy handle the Renaissance?
- The Duchy of Burgundy embraced nearly all the possibilities of Renaissance culture in music, art, literature, and pageantry.
- At their palace in Brussels, they built a garden filled with bronze statues and fountains; their great hall was large enough to host indoor tournaments.
- In addition to nearby cities were recruited for special occasions, producing embroideries, stained glass, manuscripts, jewelry, and gold and silver objects.
What did the Netherlandish Burgundy cultivate?
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What did Albrecht Dürer show in Portrait of Oswolt Krel?
- Dürer does not idealize him one whit: not only does his bulbous nose and pained expression signal a man of bad temper, but he is flanked on both sides by "wild men," symbols of passions gone amok.
- As benefitting a Renaissance man, Krel's portrait shows him as the conqueror of his baser instincts, supremely resolute and disdainful of the crazy wild men at his side.
What was cultivated in both the Italian and Northern Renaissances?
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