{"id":1780,"date":"2024-02-25T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2024-02-25T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T20:27:03","slug":"ar112-2-21-fifteenth-century-italian-art-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/25\/ar112-2-21-fifteenth-century-italian-art-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"AR112 &#8211; 2\/21 &#8211; Fifteenth-Century Italian Art cont."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we continued our discussion of the early Renaissance in and around Florence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started off by discussing Masaccio&#8217;s frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel. It was cool to see all the interesting narrative and subtextual layers of <em>The Tribute Money <\/em>in particular. I like that we spend time in class discussing important artistic concepts like color warmth and perspectives, as well as discussing the technical nature of mediums like painting in fresco. It was really neat to learn about the thought and care that Masaccio had to employ when working with the fresco, and the careful work it took to hide the contours of the pieces of the fresco. It was also interesting to learn about the political message embedded in the fresco, and how art can be a tool of personal expression even as it serves as a religious decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then moved on to a discussion of some of the most famous paintings and sculptures the Medici family commissioned. Donatello&#8217;s <em>David <\/em>is pretty interesting to me, considering that he was a symbol of the Medici family that, upon the Medici&#8217;s expulsion, became a symbol of Florence. Again, it is interesting to see the political rhetoric that pervades the arts at this time, and how religious imagery was important outside of its primary devotional functions.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we continued our discussion of the early Renaissance in and around Florence. We started off by discussing Masaccio&#8217;s frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel. It was cool to see all the interesting narrative and subtextual layers of The Tribute Money in particular. I like that we spend time in class discussing important artistic concepts like [&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\/1780"}],"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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}