Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, 16th century. Northern artists were influenced by the great innovations in the South, many artists travelled to Italy to study. Other painters in both Germany and the Netherlands followed the Northern impulse for precise observation and naturalism in the fields of landscape painting (Patinir and Bruegel) and portraiture (Holbein). As in Italy, the Northern Renaissance ended with a Mannerist phase. Mannerism art was to last about a generation longer in the North than it did in Italy, where it was outmoded by 1600.