{"id":1820,"date":"2024-02-27T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:31:03","slug":"2-26-class-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/27\/2-26-class-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/26 Class Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In class, we resumed our study of Botticelli&#8217;s<em> Birth of Venus<\/em>. I really enjoyed our breakdown of all the elements within this painting, especially since it was a work I saw it in person when I visited Florence last spring. It is one of the iconic works of art that is very recognizable, so I feel it is often considered for its presence in its entirety. I liked how we paused and took the time to not only on the composition as a whole but each individual element, from the trees in the background to the floral designs of the dress and cape that the Horae holds. I liked the idea that the painting was a representation of spring, and that immediately made me associate the work with the sensations of a spring day. Moving on to the next chapter we began our discussion of some of the great artists of the High Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci. Through Leonardo&#8217;s works, across both works of art and architecture, we see him return to the goal of understanding structure. Leonardo was constantly seeking to understand and solve problems through his art. I was particularly fascinated with the mathematics and order behind<em> The Last Supper<\/em>, as Leonardo expertly arranged characters and elements into groupings of 3 and 4, while still directly attention to Christ in the middle of the scene.  We ended class by looking at some of the <em>frescoes of the Stanzadella Signatura<\/em> in the Vatican, specifically the <em>School of Athens <\/em>scene. I hope we can continue to discuss this work in our next class, as I find it to be such an interesting work of art that signifies the new status of artists in the renaissance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we resumed our study of Botticelli&#8217;s Birth of Venus. I really enjoyed our breakdown of all the elements within this painting, especially since it was a work I saw it in person when I visited Florence last spring. It is one of the iconic works of art that is very recognizable, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11261,"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\/1820"}],"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\/11261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}