{"id":1948,"date":"2024-03-05T03:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2024-05-21T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:41:14","slug":"2-28-research-diary-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/05\/2-28-research-diary-7\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/28, Research Diary 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Wednesday we wrapped up the High Renaissance period, beginning class with Michelangelo&#8217;s, <em>Awakening Priso<\/em>ners and his <em>Dying Slave<\/em>. Michelangelo believed sculpting with stone was the most ideal form of art. Moving on, our class studied a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, <em>Pieta<\/em>. The sculpture depicts Christ&#8217;s body removed from the cross and laid across the Virgin Mary&#8217;s lap. The sculpture is gentle as Mary&#8217;s face looks down on Christ with a calm demeanor. As a class we spoke about the work&#8217;s symbolic meaning of Mary&#8217;s young features, perhaps referencing Christ as a baby in her arms. This sculpture displays many of the goals of the High Renaissance period: harmony (through the draped clothes), ideal forms, balance (through Christ&#8217;s body laying evenly across Mary), and pyramidal form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving along in class, we began discussing and learning about Mannerism. A drastic change from High Renaissance to Mannerism brought forward a few necessary changes between religious and political shifts that are necessary to be spoken about. The Medici family thus returns to power in 1530 and the protestants break apart. Through art, we began to see a departure from primary colors, contorted body positions, and an overall shift from simplicity to complexity. To finish class, we looked at two Parmigiano works: <em>Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror <\/em>and <em>Madonna of the Long <\/em><i>Neck<\/i>. <em>Madonna of the Long Neck<\/em> draws a bridge from the High Renaissance period, given it holds many changes in style. This work caught my attention, specifically the detail of the work&#8217;s unfinished elements, her long and large baby in her arms, elongated neck, an imbalance of figures (almost all figures are crammed on the left side of the work), and refined, rich beauty held by the Virgin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday we wrapped up the High Renaissance period, beginning class with Michelangelo&#8217;s, Awakening Prisoners and his Dying Slave. Michelangelo believed sculpting with stone was the most ideal form of art. Moving on, our class studied a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, Pieta. The sculpture depicts Christ&#8217;s body removed from the cross and laid across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"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\/1948"}],"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\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}