How does one distinguish between artwork of the Northern and Italian Renaissance? Are there differences in the point of view?

The primary
difference between the two is that while the works of both contained religious themes, the
Italian Renaissance was more devoted to classical Greco-Roman overtones. The Northern
Renaissance had a much more pronounced religous element. Among the famous art works of the
Northern Renaissance were Albrecht Durer's Praying Hands, Jan Van Eck's
Virgin Mary and Child, and Jerome Bosch's Death and the
Miser. All are distinctly religious, but none have the Greco-Roman themes of works of
the...

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