{"id":1539,"date":"2024-02-10T03:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T03:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2024-02-10T03:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T03:11:51","slug":"ar112-2-7-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/10\/ar112-2-7-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"AR112 &#8211; 2\/7 &#8211; First Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago I had my first art history class since 2020! It was a nice way to pick up right where I had left off. I was genuinely surprised when Professor Plesch said that we wouldn&#8217;t <em>need<\/em> to memorize pieces, but I feel that making flashcards for pieces and ideas won&#8217;t hurt for this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I appreciated the pace and the depth of Professor Plesch&#8217;s lecture. It was electrifying, in a way, and I had never really considered the Renaissance to be a regional resurgence in appreciation and reverence for Roman material culture. From the reading in the book, I learned that the Renaissance, as we think of it today, occurred only in those city-states where the artistic influence of early Christian and Roman aesthetics could be co-opted and that Gothic influences were an important factor in Italian art in this time (especially in the north of Italy, around Milan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really liked learning about the campanilismo. I never really knew Italy to be a place where identity and unity with your birthplace was so important, and I never knew it would have pertained to staying within the sight-line of your town&#8217;s bell tower! I&#8217;m excited to continue learning about crucial pieces of art history, and the quirky contextual facts that go along with understanding the wider atmosphere in which a piece of art was created. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I had my first art history class since 2020! It was a nice way to pick up right where I had left off. I was genuinely surprised when Professor Plesch said that we wouldn&#8217;t need to memorize pieces, but I feel that making flashcards for pieces and ideas won&#8217;t hurt for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}