{"id":1134,"date":"2021-09-23T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:02:36","slug":"9-22-the-coronation-of-the-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/9-22-the-coronation-of-the-virgin\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/22. The Coronation of the Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we introduced the concept of iconography, which refers to the study of how certain objects are presented in the image. We discussed the change in painting: style changed from golden to more real-life colors, and structure changed from having several sections to a more unified space.  Then, <em>The Coronation of the Virgin<\/em> became the main character of our class. As I&#8217;m born in an environment where religion is somehow far away from my life,  Catholicism is a field which I have no experience or background knowledge of, which means, on the on hand, I now get the chance to learn something about it, and on the other hand, some concepts are unfamiliar and confused. For example, I still do not quite get the point of &#8220;Trinity&#8221;. It is the father, son, and holy spirit, but what it means to be distinctive but one entity? Anyway, the altarpiece is so vivid and full of details! I can not realize there are so many objects, religious beliefs, and allusions contained and being presented if I didn&#8217;t read the essay about it. Although I am confused by the religious ideas, I fully get the point that altarpiece, though today is more appreciated on its aesthetic value, had its true functions in religious and social life in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we introduced the concept of iconography, which refers to the study of how certain objects are presented in the image. We discussed the change in painting: style changed from golden to more real-life colors, and structure changed from having several sections to a more unified space. Then, The Coronation of the Virgin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11201,"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\/1134"}],"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\/11201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}