有许多义大利伟大艺术家因为局势不稳定，并且开始接触来自于国外的统治者后，选择移民到他处。最有名的例子就是达文西，他在1516年移居到法国，这个区域在财富与权力上的发展，迅速超过了义大利。
以德国和尼德兰为中心的1 5、1 6世纪间被义大利文艺复兴的哲理与技巧影响的传统哥德式的北欧，使用较少的分析与线条的洞悉，北欧的艺术家们在他们的作品里专注于技巧和敏锐的细节工作上。
到1 6世纪中叶，北欧文艺复兴最后仍如同南方，终于被矫饰主义Mannerism同化。

There are many Italian artists who have chosen to emigrate to the United States because of the unstable situation and the beginning of contact with rulers from abroad.
The most famous example is Da Vince, who moved to France in 1516, the region in the wealth and power of the rapid development of more than italy.
In Germany and the Netherlands as the center of the 15 and sixteenth Century by the Italian Renaissance Philosophy and skill of traditional Gothic Scandinavia, insight into the analysis and use fewer lines, the Nordic artists in their works focus on skills and sharp detail work.
By the middle of sixteenth Century, the Northern Renaissance finally still like the south, has finally been mannerism Mannerism assimilation.