In this class discussion, we talked about portraiture and mimetic representation. The specific representation of this that we talked about was the Portrait of the Artist and his Wife. The painting is different from other artwork that we have seen in that it contains artistic boasts from the artist about his skill. While one fly in the painting rests on a plate in a portrait, another, on the headdress of his wife, is positioned, as if it were on the painting. Another interesting aspect of the piece was how the artist was presumably drawing a self-portrait – which was indicated by the direction of his gaze, and the lack of a left arm (or right arm in the mirror) portrayed. Additionally, we talked about how while Vasari saw the progression of art as the progression towards naturalism, this wasn’t the route that occurred in every culture, and instead, changes in art stylistically were more likely to be in reaction to the art styles that came before them. Another instance where this did happen, however, was in Ancient Greek sculpture, which we are also currently talking about in AR111.