How does the Northern Artistic Renaissance differ from the Italian Artistic Renaissance?

Gothic Style architecture was continued from the Medieval Period

Question: How does the Northern Artistic Renaissance differ from the Italian Artistic Renaissance?
Position1 of 2›: Northern Art Renaissance
Argument1 of 5›: Gothic Style architecture was continued from the Medieval Period

The Gothic style of the Northern Art Renaissance included arched windows, dark colored building with flying buttresses and stained glass. These buildings were vast and very tall, with multiple spires and towers. Changes in engineering occurred to support these vast structures.

The argument

Gothic architecture saw a revival in Northern Europe during the Art Renaissance. Gothic architecture includes large spires and towers, stained glass windows, and flying buttresses. Flying buttresses were large arched support beams used to help hold up the tall design of the Gothic buildings. The pointed arches of Gothic architecture also helped relieve some of the pressure from the large buildings. The interiors of Gothic style buildings were longer and more narrow than their Italian Renaissance counterparts. The interior roofs and archways had ornate details and etching into the stone. The use of stone and the height of the buildings were meant to reach closer to the Heavens. Gothic architecture was a testament to the advancement of architecture during the Northern Renaissance. Support archways, buttresses, and vaulted ceilings supported these massive structures, which were often places of worship, to better reach the Heavens.

Premises

[P1]Northern Renaissance architecture continued the Gothic style of the Medieval Period, featuring spires, stained glass, flying buttresses, and pointed arches. [P2] These Gothic features produced taller, narrower, more ornate buildings than Italian Renaissance architecture, designed to reach closer to the Heavens. [C] Therefore, the Northern Renaissance differs from the Italian Renaissance in its continuation and advancement of Gothic architectural style.

Counter-arguments

Art historians note that this overstates and partly mischaracterises the picture. The Northern Renaissance's greatest achievements were in painting and printmaking rather than architecture, and while Gothic forms did persist in the north, Italian Renaissance classical architecture also spread northward over the period, so "continuation of Gothic" describes a transitional or earlier phase more than the Northern Renaissance as a whole. Treating Gothic architecture as the defining northern difference risks conflating the lingering medieval style with the Renaissance movement itself.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Gothic forms did persist in the north, but the Northern Renaissance is defined more by painting and printmaking than by architecture, so continued Gothic building is not its central feature. [Rejecting P2] Italian classical architecture also spread northward during the period, so the north was not simply continuing Gothic in contrast to Italy. [Rejecting C] Persisting Gothic style reflects a lingering medieval tradition more than the defining architectural character of the Northern Renaissance.