In Tuesday’s class, we continued our discussion on narratives in Renaissance art. We defined continuous narratives as we’ve seen with the painting of St. Ursula and the Portinari altarpiece with our examination of Original Sin. I found the Limbourg brothers’ choice to reflect Eve’s features in the serpent quite fascinating, specifically when juxtaposed with the decision to still depict her within the beauty standards of the time. I was particularly interested in the adoption of the familiar Greek/Roman pose of defeat in Adam, as I am currently studying Roman sculpture in AR111, and just finished with the Greek unit. More interestingly in this piece was the metaphor implied by the border of the painting, which Adam and Eve cross in the last part of the narrative, walking out into the empty page. Thus, the implication is that they step from the domain of the heavenly Garden of Eden to the world of the viewer, which cleverly plays with the narrative from the Bible. Additionally, we explored the function of art through our discussion of the sermon of Micheal da Carcano in 1492. The functions, as deemed by Micheal and later defined in more modern terms, are Didactic Function, in which they teach you something, Emotional Function, in that they are meant to inspire emotion, and Mnemonic Function, in that they help to commit certain facts or scenes into the memory of the viewer.