Northern Renaissance
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Renaissance that occurred in the European countries north of the Alps
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- cultural movement
- Part of
- Renaissance
- Location
- Northern Europe
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Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London. An Italian merchant based in Bruges in modern Belgium The Adoration of the Magi in the snow, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1584–1638
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, developing later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects only beginning in the last years of the 15th century. It took different forms in the various countries involved, and the German, French, English, Low Countries and Polish Renaissances often had different characteristics.
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