{"id":1707,"date":"2024-02-19T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:03:10","slug":"lecture-3-02-14-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/19\/lecture-3-02-14-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 3 \u2013 02.14.W"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In today\u2019s class we continued exploring Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe. We started with the &#8220;<em>Well of Moses<\/em>&#8221; and learnt about how the six life-sized depictions of prophets holding scrolls about Christ&#8217;s coming represent different aspects of the Christian faith. This conversation on symbolism continued into the discussion on Jan van Eyck\u2019s <em>The Arnolfini Portrait<\/em>. We were introduced to the idea of \u201cdisguised symbolism\u201d and how artists started incorporating various themes into their art pieces during this time period. I found it very interesting how our discussion started off with noting the aesthetic features and then gradually delved into symbolic aspects of the painting. We observed the clothes, slippers, chandelier, mirror and other objects positioned across the room. I really liked how these objects in the painting symbolized themes of marriage, fidelity, and faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also noted how the paintings were getting more and more realistic. The convex mirror in \u201c<em>The Arnolfini Portrait<\/em>\u201d with its lighting and highlights were some of the most intricate of such realistic features. We also discussed how Jan Van Eyck\u2019s turban could be made out in the mirror, a feature he included in some of his works as a self expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also studied realism in \u201c<em>Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove<\/em>\u201d When we look closer at both paintings we realize that they depict the same scene. A mirror was also included in this painting. I wonder if this feature was being added by artists to showcase their technical mastery during that age. While we continued the exploration of religious themes through artworks we also spoke about marriage customs and how it was essential to understand societal expectations and customs surrounding marriage during the period like in \u201cThe Arnolfini portrait\u201d where the the one lit candle on the chandelier and various other objects surrounding the two figures depicted such themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s class we continued exploring Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe. We started with the &#8220;Well of Moses&#8221; and learnt about how the six life-sized depictions of prophets holding scrolls about Christ&#8217;s coming represent different aspects of the Christian faith. This conversation on symbolism continued into the discussion on Jan van Eyck\u2019s The Arnolfini Portrait. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17781,"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\/1707"}],"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\/17781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}