{"id":1164,"date":"2021-09-24T20:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2021-09-24T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:11:27","slug":"9-23-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/09\/24\/9-23-class\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/23 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we examined a number of different pieces depicting <em>Madonna Enthroned<\/em>.  I enjoyed learning about the ways in which Renaissance artists worked to make their paintings look more lifelike.  Learning that artists know exactly how to control your gaze when you look at their art was fascinating to me, and made me reconsider how I have been looking at art for my whole life.  Along those lines, the most astonishing moment of class for me was when Professor Plesch zoomed in on Duccio&#8217;s <em>Maest\u00e0<\/em> and showed us the intricate details of the rich fabric that each of the people on either side of the throne were wearing.  I was blown away by these details because I had not noticed them in the slightest until Professor Plesch brought our attention to it.  She explained that the gorgeous fabrics likely looked like a lot of the expensive fabrics being imported from the Middle East and Asia at the time and were a powerful symbol of status and wealth.  This made me wonder what other magnificent elements of art I have missed because I did not know to look for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we examined a number of different pieces depicting Madonna Enthroned. I enjoyed learning about the ways in which Renaissance artists worked to make their paintings look more lifelike. Learning that artists know exactly how to control your gaze when you look at their art was fascinating to me, and made me reconsider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9328,"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\/1164"}],"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\/9328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}