Italy's influence on culture, art and religion during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century.

During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Italy style and artistic expression was taking the world by storm causing drastic changes to culture, life, art, and literature within the Netherlands, France and Germany region during this time period.  

The New Humanism Ideology and philosophy gained much power swiftly, in Northern Europe allowing the society to believe in a more conservative approach when dealing with religion by offering an untraditional religious ideology, but still carried many of the same traditions such as placing the Father as the Legal Dominant one.

During the fourteenth century, many of the Paintings that were coming out of the region of Italy were considered to be known as a dark and gothic time for paintings.  Main changes occurred between the turn of the century due to German artists traveling into Italy to study, and observe the past techniques and artists which allowed them to come up with an entirely new revitalization of art and how imagines are now known to be displayed.

                                                           German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)

http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2011/07/albrecht-durer-star-of-the-northern-renaissance/?psrc=art-and-artists