On Monday, our class began our studies on the fifteenth-century, also known as “quattrocento, “Early Renaissance period. Perhaps the greatest advancement during this time was the invention of the printing press. As mentioned in class, studio humanitatis (the study of conveying ideas and knowledge through literature, history, moral philosophy, and art) grew as the invention of the printing press in 1464 allowed knowledge to be disseminated across Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Continuing class, we looked at Lorenzo Ghiberti’s The Sacrifice of Isaac<\/em>. I found it quite interesting that artists began to become competitive to produce the best representation of this work. One artist would be chosen to display their rendition in the cathedral. By learning this, I have gained more knowledge of the importance and pride artists gain for their art to be in a religious center. The scene depicts Abraham on his way to sacrifice his son Isaac. An angel saves Abraham, though, and he goes on to sacrifice a donkey instead. The last two artists standing are Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti. It was critical and fun to speak about the differences and what each work conveyed, even if they are depicting the same biblical scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Moving forward, we looked at another Brunelleschi work, Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore<\/em>. There are two specific points I believe are necessary to discuss. the first is his “double shell,” meaning the shape and look of what the viewer sees from the outside is, in fact, quite different if one were looking from the inside. Second, the meaning and metaphorical ideas behind the orb. Representing a world, the dome reigns over the city of Florence, perhaps noting that the world is on Italy’s side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday, our class began our studies on the fifteenth-century, also known as “quattrocento, “Early Renaissance period. Perhaps the greatest advancement during this time was the invention of the printing press. As mentioned in class, studio humanitatis (the study of conveying ideas and knowledge through literature, history, moral philosophy, and art) grew as the invention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"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\/1753"}],"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\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}