{"id":1651,"date":"2024-02-15T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:24:14","slug":"intro-to-western-art-journal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/15\/intro-to-western-art-journal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Western Art: Journal (2\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, we finished talking about the Well of Moses by Claus Sluter. We discussed the significance of these life-size figures of profits holding scrolls to represent the coming of Christ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then moved on to intricately picking apart &#8220;<em>The Arnolfini Portrait&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>by Jan Van Eyck, who was a painter at the service of the Duke of Burgundy and was a part of his household as a notable painter. In this portrait, Eyck hides symbols such as objects and specific details to convey the meaning behind the picture. For example, he paints merchants and &#8220;wife&#8221; shoes in sight for the viewer to see and symbolize standing on holy ground. He told loyalty by placing the dog in the foreground and putting fruit (peaches) by the window, symbolizing fertility. It is unknown whether this portrait was a marriage ceremony. Still, from the two witnesses in the mirror, the one candle was lit at midday, which was a wedding tradition, and from the placement of the merchant and wife, we can infer it was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We looked more into Jan Van Eyck&#8217;s self-portrait made in 1433. This self-portrait was made with oil paint due to the detail of the face. It is exciting that Eyck&#8217;s painting of The Arnolfini was only 33 by 22 inches, which is tiny for the detail added to it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we finished talking about the Well of Moses by Claus Sluter. We discussed the significance of these life-size figures of profits holding scrolls to represent the coming of Christ.&nbsp; We then moved on to intricately picking apart &#8220;The Arnolfini Portrait&#8221;&nbsp;by Jan Van Eyck, who was a painter at the service of the Duke of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12013,"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\/1651"}],"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\/12013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}