{"id":2196,"date":"2024-03-28T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2024-05-21T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:52:32","slug":"3-6-research-diary-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/28\/3-6-research-diary-9\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/6, Research Diary 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Class on Wednesday, March 6th, we continued our studies on Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Originally from the Netherlands, Bruegel joined the Antwerp painters’ guild in 1551. Bruegel’s collections contained various ranges, specifically containing sketches of mountainous views and proverbs seen through vignettes. Bruegel encouraged the interconnectedness between humanism: ultimately the similarities, differences, and harmony between human beings and nature. We focused on a few works of Bruegel’s, including The Blind Leading the Blind<\/em>, Harvesters and The Return of the Hunters. <\/em>Bruegel’s The Blind Leading the Blind<\/em> paints a modern setting, though a diagonal composition in comparison to the people located in the work. The work portrays a message from a biblical text reading, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides [of the blind]. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”\u2014\u200aMatthew 15:13-14. Bruegel’s work conveys the idea of unrevealed knowledge, perhaps leading human beings to be “blind,” in a world of uncertainty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, as we brought the study of Bruegel to an end for the week, we looked at one more of his works, Harvesters and The Return of the Hunters<\/em>. The work contains a rich, lively landscape, illustrating human figures, and adding virtue and meaning to the natural landscape. Some researchers believe that this work consisted of multiple sketches from his travels combined into a central work. One of the most interesting aspects of Bruegel’s work was that they were painting or sketches composed to be sold at an open market, allowing and encouraging new ideas and questions to arise from the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continued class on the 6th by beginning our studies on the Italian Baroque period. We focused on multiple different aspects of this period, including artists reaction to Mannerism, counter reformation, crisis with the Church, and discussing some works and artists that are necessary to talk about, given their grande impact on the period. The artists we focused on involved Guercino and Agostino Tassi’s Love of the Gods<\/em>, a fresco painting located in the Palazzo Farnese. Michelangelo Merisi (also known as Caravaggio) and his The Calling of Matthew<\/em>, illustrated the biblical time when Christ encourages Matthew to follow in his footsteps. Lastly, we looked at Artemisia Gentileschi. Looking at the works of Artemisia, though, we see the challenges women artists faced at the time and the animosity women faced.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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