{"id":1967,"date":"2024-03-07T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2024-05-21T01:46:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:46:57","slug":"3-4-research-diary-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/07\/3-4-research-diary-8\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/4, Research Diary 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past Monday we focused on the High Renaissance in the North, beginning with Agnolo Bronzino&#8217;s <em>Allegory with Venus and<\/em> Cupid. Bronzino utilizes the mannerist style through much of the art composition of the work. Many of these characteristics include Father Time draping a rich blue cloak behind the figures of the painting, multiple unknown figures, and a French kiss occurring in the focal point of the work between Cupid and his mother, Venus. As we talked about in class, this French kiss perhaps alludes to eroticism. Perhaps, though, this French kiss also represents the meaning behind Cupid, the God of desire, and physical affection and admiration he holds for many to look up to. Not only do the main figures draw allusions and metaphors, but a figure in the foreground perhaps draws the most significant symbolism and mannerist style. A man, seeming to be in agony, grasps his head with a sense of anger or pain. Many speculations state this man represents jealousy, envy, or even syphilis (given Francis I was diagnosed with syphilis and this work was commissioned for him). The characteristics of this work are typical of Agnolo&#8217;s mannerist, intricate, and complicated style seen throughout his work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving forward in class, we began discussing artistic aspects present in Northern Europe. Traditional styles continued, Italian influence increased, and lastly the protestant reform occurred, following Martin Luther&#8217;s criticism on the Church, which ultimately led Luther to be expelled from the Church. Focusing on German painter, Albrecht D\u00fcrer and his developments of goldsmith techniques from his father and learnings from being taught by the art and print workshop. We analyzed his <em>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse<\/em>, <em>Buxheum St. Christopher<\/em>, and his <em>Self Portrait<\/em>, all sketches by D\u00fcrer, and lastly his <em> Adam and Eve. <\/em>Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s various works are incredible, but I am struck in particular by the multiple techniques and vast differences in technique and style between each of his works present. Each work is intricate and unique in detail, holds an allusion to religious concepts, and incorporates light versus dark colors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Monday we focused on the High Renaissance in the North, beginning with Agnolo Bronzino&#8217;s Allegory with Venus and Cupid. Bronzino utilizes the mannerist style through much of the art composition of the work. Many of these characteristics include Father Time draping a rich blue cloak behind the figures of the painting, multiple unknown [&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\/1967"}],"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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}