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Section 2 WH

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What factors led to the beginning of the renaissance in northern Europe?
Urban merchants became wealthy enough to sponsor artists, and people lived close together in towns, allowing for the spread of ideas.
How did the invention of the printing press help spread learning and Renaissance ideas?
It made it possible to produce books cheaper, so that more people could afford them. This made reading more common and also spread new information.
Albert Durer
Produced woodcuts and engravings, portrayed religious subjects, classical myths, realistic landscapes
Jan Van Eyck
used recently developed oil pants to develop techniques, realistic details and personality of his subjects
Han Holbein
Painted King Henry VIII
Pieter Bruegel
interested in realistic details and individual people, captured scenes from everyday life
Thomas Moore
tried to show a better model of society, he wrote the book Utopia to show an ideal society
Erasmus
wrote book The Praise of Folly, believed in Christianity of the heart
William Shakespeare
most famous playwright of the Elizabethan age, his works showed deep understanding between humans
Christine de Pizan
Women reformer who questioned the treatment of women
Who created the printing press?
Johann Gutenberg
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