Northern Renaissance

Started in Italy as a rebirth of classical Greek and Roman ideas.

Focused on humanity's innate abilities, i.e. Humanism

Perspective, Chiaroscuro, Fresco

Ideas of the Italian Renaissance that spread into other parts of Europe

Specifically: England, Spain, France, and parts of Germany and the Netherlands.

Bruegel the Elder

Holbein

Jan van Eyck

Erasmus

William Shakespeare

Sir Thomas More

Sir Francis Bacon

Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press.