{"id":1353,"date":"2021-10-09T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2021-10-09T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T22:29:44","slug":"10-7-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/09\/10-7-class\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/7 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we began by discussing Tilman Riemenschneider&#8217;s <em>Altar of the Holy Blood<\/em>.  This was the first altarpiece we have covered that included 3-dimensional sculptures, and this one was carved out of limewood, and the accompanying frame was carved by a carpenter.  Professor Plesch told us that the artist and the carpenter were paid the same amount for their work (and that the carpenter actually ended up making more than the artist from tips he received for the work), which made me think a lot about how different our society&#8217;s perception of artists&#8217; work and time has changed since this altarpiece was made\u2014artists can make mind-blowing amounts of money from individual pieces nowadays, which was clearly not the case in Riemenschneider&#8217;s time.  The <em>Altar of the Holy Blood<\/em> also contains a drop of the blood of Jesus Christ, a relic, that drew lots of tourists (on pilgrimage or out of fascination) to the town, which was good for the local economy.  I wonder if this was part of the motivation behind the iconoclasm during the Reformation\u2014if Martin Luther (and the Protestants that began to follow him) viewed the relics and physical (artistic) appreciations of God in Catholic churches as &#8220;indulgences&#8221; then that would all be considered extraneous to the achievement of salvation through faith alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we began by discussing Tilman Riemenschneider&#8217;s Altar of the Holy Blood. This was the first altarpiece we have covered that included 3-dimensional sculptures, and this one was carved out of limewood, and the accompanying frame was carved by a carpenter. Professor Plesch told us that the artist and the carpenter were paid [&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\/1353"}],"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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}