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The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance, this period became the German, French, English, Low Countries and Polish Renaissances, and in turn created other national and localized ...
He has published book and exhibition reviews in The New York Review of Books and autobiographical non-fiction in Granta Magazine, anthologized (2020) in The Best American Essays. He has also written and taught on modern and contemporary artists, including Lucian Freud , Francesco Clemente , Vivienne Koorland, Luc Tuymans , and, most extensively ...
James E. Snyder (1928–1990) was an American art historian, specializing in Northern Renaissance art.His Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was a standard textbook on the subject for several decades, with a posthumous revised edition in 2005, revised by Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen, [1] [2] being somewhat replaced by Jeffrey Chipps Smith's The Northern Renaissance of 2004. [3]
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
Renaissance literature writers (c.14th−16th centuries) — active during the Renaissance period in Europe. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 ...
On the completion of the Hundred Years' War between France and England, the intellectual currents of Renaissance humanism began to spread. In 1464, Raoul Lefèvre composed for the Duke of Burgundy a history of Troy. At that time the French still regarded themselves as descendants of Hector. If we except the University of Paris, none of the ...
Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature is the literature written in the Dutch language between around 1550 and around 1700. This period saw great political and religious changes as the Reformation spread across Northern and Western Europe and the Netherlands fought for independence in the Eighty Years' War .
The leading Northern humanists included Rudolph Agricola, Reuchlin and Erasmus. Agricola, whose original name was Roelef Huisman, was born near Groningen in 1443 and died 1485. He enjoyed the highest reputation in his day as a scholar and received unstinted praise from Erasmus and Melanchthon.