{"id":1242,"date":"2021-10-05T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:26:43","slug":"9-30-reflection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/05\/9-30-reflection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/30 Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ghent Altarpiece is impressive in so many ways, but what stood out to me the most was Van Eyck&#8217;s usage of the church where the altarpiece would&#8217;ve been placed as part of the viewer&#8217;s experience. I find this to be a very crafty method by Jan Van Eyck because I think this is a great way to illuminate the painting while maintaining a sense of naturalism. While Jan Van Eyck uses a golden semicircle placed behind the three largest figures on the front of the altarpiece to show their divinity. This is a step ahead from the entirely gilded backgrounds seen in works such as <em>Rogier van der Weyden, Entombment<\/em> where the background is unnaturally gold. In contrast, light from the windows hit the Ghent&#8217;s Altarpiece at the center which illuminates the center figures so there isn&#8217;t a need for an overwhelming amount of gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Jan Van Eyck&#8217;s careful placement of Adam and Eve where they&#8217;re placed on the panels flanking the central panels  creates a natural darkening because the figures are turned away from the natural light. I find it incredible how Van Eyck is able to use light and shade to illuminate and darken figures based on their biblical stories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghent Altarpiece is impressive in so many ways, but what stood out to me the most was Van Eyck&#8217;s usage of the church where the altarpiece would&#8217;ve been placed as part of the viewer&#8217;s experience. I find this to be a very crafty method by Jan Van Eyck because I think this is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10186,"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\/1242"}],"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\/10186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}