The artists created images to enhance their sense of individual worth. Northern Renaissance painters did not make a Demi-god of man which the Italians did. They painted man as they saw him. Based on mortality they painted man clothed not nude. Carefully depicted in detail man's’ world with actual backgrounds and landscape. Painting from the North were smaller and intimate. Northern oil paintings had careful detail. The North had no antique statues or classical ruins. They did not have influence of Greek and Roman art in the North. Art from the North is less
The artists created images to enhance their sense of individual worth. Northern Renaissance painters did not make a Demi-god of man which the Italians did. They painted man as they saw him. Based on mortality they painted man clothed not nude. Carefully depicted in detail man's’ world with actual backgrounds and landscape. Painting from the North were smaller and intimate. Northern oil paintings had careful detail. The North had no antique statues or classical ruins. They did not have influence of Greek and Roman art in the North. Art from the North is less