{"id":1841,"date":"2024-02-28T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:39:26","slug":"journal-2-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/28\/journal-2-26-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In today&#8217;s class we focused primarily on the High Renaissance in Italy. We first wrapped up our discussion of Botticelli&#8217;s <em>Birth of Venus<\/em>, before shifting gears to look at the works of Leonardo da Vinci. We covered Leonardo&#8217;s interest in a vast number of topics, focusing on the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm. Leonardo seemed to follow a funny trend of getting bored of a lot of the work he started, and moving on to projects he found more interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We looked at a few of Leonardo&#8217;s paintings, such as <em>Madonna on the Rocks<\/em> and we took a while to study <em>The Last Supper<\/em>, where Leonardo unsurprisingly experimented, leading the painting to be in a lot of disrepair. We touched briefly on the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em>, and why it is so famous, then closed with a look at some of the architecture of the time. This class provided a fascinating insight into some of the most popular works of art ever, and it was incredibly interesting to learn more about the process behind Leonardo&#8217;s creations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s class we focused primarily on the High Renaissance in Italy. We first wrapped up our discussion of Botticelli&#8217;s Birth of Venus, before shifting gears to look at the works of Leonardo da Vinci. We covered Leonardo&#8217;s interest in a vast number of topics, focusing on the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11932,"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\/1841"}],"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\/11932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}