{"id":1339,"date":"2021-10-08T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:26:35","slug":"class-10-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/08\/class-10-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 10\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the class we analyzed and discussed Matthias Grunewald&#8217;s <em>Insenheim Altarpiece<\/em>. Here again the importance of context within the renaissance art is raised again. This altarpiece is commissioned for a monastery where monks take care of people with ergotism, a skin disease. Another thing a modern viewer must be aware is that Matthias was not interested in Italian renaissance, but profoundly Germanic. The altarpiece is dedicated to St. Anthony Abbot, as the monks were of Anthonite order (btw Ergotism was known as St. Anthony&#8217;s fire in these times). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grunewald&#8217;s expressionist style is what astonished me the most and had the biggest impact on me. The way that he used St. Anthony&#8217;s temptations (Saints who the incurable sick people were praying to) to strengthen the faith of the patients, by using expressionist and extremely illicit figures talks a lot about artist&#8217;s creativity and ability to identify the crucial elements of the story he is trying to tell and the perfect technique used to do so. Grunewald distorted images with purpose to convey emotion, something frequent in Germanic art, but extremely innovative for the era. Grunewald tried to teach the patients how to die, by using inspiration against pride, as Christians believed devil would come to tempt one right before death so there is no time for remorse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the central panel of the second view the contrast of New and Old Testimony was done so effortlessly and without poking one&#8217;s eye, but also noticeable. The artist even managed to demonstrate the bias and negative thoughts one should have towards the Jewish part (via dirty vessel). These, on the first sight irrelevant details, are what makes the renaissance artwork special to me, apart from aesthetic side of it. So many layers with so many different meanings all working toward the same direction and doctrine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the class we analyzed and discussed Matthias Grunewald&#8217;s Insenheim Altarpiece. Here again the importance of context within the renaissance art is raised again. This altarpiece is commissioned for a monastery where monks take care of people with ergotism, a skin disease. Another thing a modern viewer must be aware is that Matthias was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7923,"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\/1339"}],"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\/7923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}