{"id":1657,"date":"2024-02-16T03:33:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2024-02-16T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T03:33:12","slug":"2-12-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/16\/2-12-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"2.12 Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I learned from today\u2019s class that it was common for artists in early Renaissance (i.e. 14th century Italy)  to paint about certain frequently revisited biblical scenes, such as Madonna holding baby Jesus and Jesus Christ\u2019s return to Jerusalem. Different artists, however, took different approaches to portraying these scenes, and often turned to their predecessors\u2019 work for reference and for a model to improve on. In Giotto\u2019s 1310 altarpiece <em>Madonna Enthroned<\/em>, though the painter retained most of the biblical figures and their general placements in Cimabue\u2019s earlier counterpart (dated c. 1280-90), Giotto employed a naturalistic approach to depicting the saints, angels, and Madonna\/Jesus themselves, emphasizing on displaying the delicate lights and shadows enveloping the folds on their clothings. He also considerably expanded the sense of space in the panel by drawing from contemporary architectural influences, placing Madonna and Jesus in a recess under a Gothic-styled dome behind several finely painted steps. Transposing the biblical figures from a conceptual, mental space to a real-life setting, Giotto suggests at the possibility of the biblical canon overlapping with the everyday life in Renaissance.<br><br>Another interesting case where different artists\u2019 portrayed the same source material from different points of view was Giotto and Duccio\u2019s portrayal of Christ entering Jerusalem. Giotto used intense shades of blue and white and designed dramatic\/emotive postures for the human characters present in the panel, by such means creating a contemplative mood and building a sense of mystery\u2014through which viewers who approach this painting may \u201cfeel\u201d or search for a religious presence within themselves. Duccio, on the other hand, established a much more lively urban setting through combining layers of naturalistically painted architecture (as seen in any Renaissance town) with a large, bustling crowd of men, women, and children playing on the side. It is evident that Duccio&#8217;s primary focus was to tell the narrative of Christ in a convincing and realistic setting fleshed out with interesting story-like details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned from today\u2019s class that it was common for artists in early Renaissance (i.e. 14th century Italy) to paint about certain frequently revisited biblical scenes, such as Madonna holding baby Jesus and Jesus Christ\u2019s return to Jerusalem. Different artists, however, took different approaches to portraying these scenes, and often turned to their predecessors\u2019 work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12256,"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\/1657"}],"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\/12256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}