1400-1600 AD, which had a very distinctive style. The Northern Renaissance had a very different focus than the Italian Renaissance. Instead of focusing on realism, naturalism, and making paintings appear not to be man-made, Bosch focused on the religious aspect and used a more surreal style to convey his ideas. Painters of this time tried to make paintings appear not to have been made by man. Dutch painters in this period were starting to experiment with landscapes as the main focus of the pieces and without figures in the pieces. They were also starting to focus on more realistic pieces, but they were also moving towards naturalism. The pieces began to show glimpses of the everyday world and move away from the Gothic decorative elements previously used