{"id":1920,"date":"2024-03-04T02:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2024-03-04T02:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:57:03","slug":"28-02-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/04\/28-02-class\/","title":{"rendered":"28.02 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoyed the final pieces of our focus on Michelangelo, especially the reflection of <em>Huomo Universale<\/em> or &#8220;renaissance man&#8221; specifically in the <em>Awakening Prisoner <\/em>and <em>Dying Slave<\/em> marble pieces. Further, the symbolism of virtuosity as well with the juxtaposition of such a beautiful piece carved out of what was percieved to be a &#8216;flawed&#8217; stone was was fascinating. In the transition to looking at Mannerism, the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were pretty incredible, especially with the backstory that the frescoes where in an experiment of Michelangelo&#8217;s and the dirty ceiling and cracked frescoes that required pins and varnish. My favorite fresco that we looked at was <em>The Creation of Adam<\/em>, and although it&#8217;s a very famous piece and scene as god reaches to give life to Adam, the woman and what appears to be children behind god are confusing characters and I believe it was mentioned that there are various characters throughout the frescoes that there is still debate over who they are or what they represent. I appreciate that type of ambiguity and I suppose we won&#8217;t every know exactly. Finally, with the deeper dive into Mannerism, I enjoyed the work <em>Madonna of the Long Neck <\/em>by Parmigianino. The obscure man background of both the man and the unfinished columns combined with the elongation of both the madonna&#8217;s fingers and neck appear to be a very blatant example of the push towards mannerism, occurring as a result of the political and religous changes at the time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the final pieces of our focus on Michelangelo, especially the reflection of Huomo Universale or &#8220;renaissance man&#8221; specifically in the Awakening Prisoner and Dying Slave marble pieces. Further, the symbolism of virtuosity as well with the juxtaposition of such a beautiful piece carved out of what was percieved to be a &#8216;flawed&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12392,"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\/1920"}],"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\/12392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}