{"id":1390,"date":"2021-10-12T21:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T21:38:03","slug":"10-12-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/12\/10-12-class\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/12 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s class, we began to talk about pieces of art that have narrative elements and tell a story.  We began by talking about Vittore Carpaccio&#8217;s <em>Scenes from the Life of St. Ursula<\/em>.  As noted in our textbook, the painting has a cinematic progression to it, since Carpaccio takes advantage of viewers being used to reading from left to right, the narrative he is portraying progresses from left to right.  We can confirm this because we see the king depicted twice in the painting\u2014once when he is meeting St. Ursula with his son, and once when he is with the Virgin.  This affirms that there are two moments in time being represented in this work.  We discussed that this painting had been commissioned for the Confraternity of Sant&#8217;Orsola.  Confraternities were a vitally important element of Medieval socialization, since they were community-centered places where lay people could get together to do regular community service or to have a mass and a banquet once a year.  This work is yet another example of a piece of art which has additional meaning infused with the characteristics and desires of the patron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s class, we began to talk about pieces of art that have narrative elements and tell a story. We began by talking about Vittore Carpaccio&#8217;s Scenes from the Life of St. Ursula. As noted in our textbook, the painting has a cinematic progression to it, since Carpaccio takes advantage of viewers being used to [&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\/1390"}],"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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}