Today we talked about altarpieces. Altarpieces were pieces that were used during religious services and were images that you would pray to. In other words, they were religious images. Even so, the style of altarpieces changed over time. It started with polyptychs which were altarpieces made using several panels. These pieces often combined multiple scenes. Over time, this transformed into doing less scenes, or placing a focus on a single scene. In addition to this change in structure and subject matter, there was also a shift in the way these paintings were approached, meaning a shift from using a lot of gold to be grand to drawing something more realistic. It was with these more realistic drawings that altarpieces also started to get a better sense of depth and perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Coronation of the Virgin<\/em> is an altarpiece that is good to examine or analyze because of the circumstances that surround it. In fact, it was known for having a long contract in terms of what the patron wanted for the piece. It was because of this that it was also known as a piece that incorporated many new\/unique ideas such as making the father and son of the trinity looking the same and including images of purgatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we talked about altarpieces. Altarpieces were pieces that were used during religious services and were images that you would pray to. In other words, they were religious images. Even so, the style of altarpieces changed over time. It started with polyptychs which were altarpieces made using several panels. These pieces often combined multiple scenes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}