{"id":1326,"date":"2021-10-08T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T17:36:53","slug":"10-7-temptation-of-st-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/08\/10-7-temptation-of-st-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/7. Temptation of St. Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the class, we move on talking about the last opening of Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald’s Insenheim Altarpiece<\/em>. The temptation of St. Anthony, where he was assault by various hybrid creatures, stood out to me. I like the parallel between assault by monsters and assault by illness. Since the audience was mostly the ergotism patients, the lines at the right bottom of the piece aimed to show these followers that the sense of abandon was what you would feel like when you are “assaulted” by illness, and thus you should get prepared for being tempted, as Demo will tempt you even at the last moment of your life. The so-called “the art of dying” that taught people how to die well so that they can go to heaven was new to me and very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we moved on to Tilman Riemenschneider’s Altar of the Holy Blood<\/em>. That the carpenter, who made the shrine-like structure that housed Riemenschneider\u2019s carvings, got even more money than the artist himself left me a great impression. This revealed the fact that the patrons’ key attention was in its function rather than its aesthetic value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also compared different art pieces of Entry into Jerusalem<\/em> and got the idea that these pieces had the same iconography but distinctive styles and art forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raphael’s The Entombment<\/em> was discussed lastly and was compared to Pietro Perugino’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ<\/em>, where the characters were more separated and statue-like. How the personal emotion, political standing, and religious believes were at the same time embedded in the same piece of art was fascinating, showing Raphael’s high skill in artworks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the class, we move on talking about the last opening of Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald’s Insenheim Altarpiece. The temptation of St. Anthony, where he was assault by various hybrid creatures, stood out to me. I like the parallel between assault by monsters and assault by illness. Since the audience was mostly the ergotism patients, the lines […]<\/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\/1326"}],"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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}