{"id":1812,"date":"2024-02-27T03:16:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2024-02-27T03:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T03:16:26","slug":"ar112-2-26-finishing-early-renaissance-and-starting-high-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/27\/ar112-2-26-finishing-early-renaissance-and-starting-high-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"AR112 &#8211; 2\/26 &#8211; Finishing Early Renaissance and Starting High Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we started by talking about Botticelli&#8217;s <em>The Birth of Venus<\/em>. I think it is a nice painting, displaying Botticelli&#8217;s humanistic education with its mythological content and use of antiquated motifs (the modest Venus) and his interactions with Neoplatonist thinkers. I like it when we talk about more abstract and technical artistic concepts like arrangement and framing, and how it brings meaning and significance to a painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then moved on to a broad discussion of the many works of Leonardo da Vinci. He is a compelling figure, someone who must&#8217;ve really let his curiosity run wild. I liked his anatomical sketches, and how he accurately detailed the shape and functions of many muscles and ligaments. He was also in many ways a philosopher; writing dictums for the functions and purpose of painting. All in all a very interesting guy, somebody that I&#8217;d like to learn more about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We finished off the day by starting our discussion of some of the big pieces of art commissioned in the Papal States. We looked at Bramante&#8217;s <em>Tempietto <\/em>and how it built on both Early Christian and Roman architectural traditions to make an equally innovative and antiquated structure. Then, we started our discussion of Raphael&#8217;s <em>The School of Rome<\/em>, but we ran out of time so we&#8217;ll probably pick up there on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started by talking about Botticelli&#8217;s The Birth of Venus. I think it is a nice painting, displaying Botticelli&#8217;s humanistic education with its mythological content and use of antiquated motifs (the modest Venus) and his interactions with Neoplatonist thinkers. I like it when we talk about more abstract and technical artistic concepts like arrangement [&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\/1812"}],"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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}