Renaissance Review

5. During the Renaissance in Northern European paintings, typically figures are encased in the rooms they occupy, rather than being ___________ to their surroundings.
6. Northern European paintings had a fondness for depicting________ unknown in Italian art.
9. New technologies in ____________ made artists internationally popular, and more courted than ever before.
12. The prosperous commercial and _________ interests in the affluent trading towns of Flanders stimulated interest in the arts.
13. What Italian artist was enormously popular in Northern Europe, even though he never traveled there?

1. The first stock exchange was established in __________ in 1460.
2. The Reformation caused a split within the Christian faith. Germany, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands became ________________.
3. In Northern European Renaissance paintings, ground lines tilt up dramatically, as do table tops and virtually any flat surface. High __________ are the norm.
4. Northern European artists were heavily influenced by __________ Gothic painting, a courtly elegant art form, begun by Italian artists such as Simone Martini in the fourteenth century.
7. Although __________ can be seen in virtually any work of art in any historical period, it seems to be particularly a part of the fabric of Northern European painting.
8. _____ paint produces exceptionally rich colors, preserves well in wet climates, and is not quick-drying, thereby allowing artists to make changes.
10. In the north, religious art was deemphasized and still life, ________, landscape, and portraiture increased in popularity.
11. With a Protestant wave of anti-Catholic feeling came an _________ movement attacking paintings and sculptures of holy figures, which only a short while before were considered sacred.