Northern Renaissance versus Italian Renaissance Italian Renaissance's main medium were Frescos. In Northern Europe, they used oil. (See DaVinci's "The Last Supper" and Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Wedding") During the Reformation and Counter Reformation, Italian painters made Catholic Church commissioned paintings. In the North, the paintings had far more secular subjects, and they had darker religious themes (if indeed the subject were religious). See artists/architects: Italian Renaissance Artists: Giotto, Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Boticelli, DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Palladio, Caravaggio, Gentileschi*, Bernini* Non-Italian Renaissance Artists: Limbourg Brothers, Christine de Pizan, Campin, Van der Weyden, Durer, Grunewald, Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens*, Rembrant*, Vermeer* * indicates a post Renaissance theme (Mannarism, Baroque, etc)
Italian Renaissance Art was about the beautiful human body.
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Strong Christian influence
A Northern Renaissance painter was more likely to produce oil paintings than an Italian Renaissance painter, who typically favored fresco and tempera. Additionally, Northern Renaissance painters often depicted landscapes and genre scenes, whereas Italian Renaissance painters focused more on religious and classical subjects.
depicted lush landscapes and happy peasants.
realism and expression
There were only two major Renaissances in Europe. There was the Northern Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance. If you want to know the differences, there is a link below to help you learn the difference between the two and what caused them to happen in different time periods.
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Size They were done on a smaller scale
Strong Christian influence
One is Northern and the other is Italian :)
A Northern Renaissance painter was more likely to produce oil paintings than an Italian Renaissance painter, who typically favored fresco and tempera. Additionally, Northern Renaissance painters often depicted landscapes and genre scenes, whereas Italian Renaissance painters focused more on religious and classical subjects.
Size They were done on a smaller scale
Paintings and sculptures in Italian High Renaissance style of course since he was IN Italian High Renaissance.
Italian High Renaissance.
They are not the same. Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance painting styles break with preceding styles but in different ways.
Northern Renaissance artists blended Italian Renaissance ideas with their own primarily through the religious ideas of the humanists.
== The Southern Renaissance, or Italian Renaissance, began in Florence, in the northern part if Italy. The Northern Renaissance began somewhere in Northern parts like Germany.
Robert Oertel has written: 'Italian painting from the Trecento to the end of the Renaissance' -- subject(s): Italian Paintings, Paintings, Italian 'Italian painting'