{"id":1131,"date":"2021-09-23T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:28:18","slug":"ar257-9-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/ar257-9-21\/","title":{"rendered":"AR257 9\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we explored iconography, investigating the greek roots of the word, and examining the similarities in which iconic scenes such as the Annunciation were often produced with repeating symbols or scene details.  We also continued our discussion on altarpieces, and I was particularly interested in the transition that led to them being placed on the wall.  In my opinion, it explains a small step of the shift in context that led to them being considered as artwork (although this was obviously still far off in the future).  Furthermore, we discussed how, although we consider altarpiece artists&#8217; talents to be great (and expertise-wise, it was), much of their vision came from the patron, who had their own beliefs depending on their religion and story.  This was made ever apparent with the <em>Enguerrand Quarton, <\/em>which also led to our discussion on the choices of depicting the Holy Trinity, and more interestingly, the conference in which the current depiction was set in stone.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we explored iconography, investigating the greek roots of the word, and examining the similarities in which iconic scenes such as the Annunciation were often produced with repeating symbols or scene details. We also continued our discussion on altarpieces, and I was particularly interested in the transition that led to them being placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"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\/1131"}],"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\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}